Steven Erikson Quotes

I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!

Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language.

I tend to stare at people and memorize what they're saying and how they say it.

I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art.

I've always really been interested in observing people's postures, the way they speak with their hands, the way they communicate things with their body language.

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

It's kind of amazing how well you can get to know someone without talking.

I'm a world-class people watcher. I like to watch people's body movements, their expressions. It says so much about them.

I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.

I love observing people.

There's something about studying body language and non-spoken emotion - I know the innate response. But to really study it like a science would be fun.

Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you're always communicating, even when you're not talking - with your body language, your facial expressions, your eyes.

There's as much revealed in the way a person lifts a glass as in what they say about some political issue.

When people walk in a room, the way they sit or they talk, that itself tells me a story.

Do you ever sit in Starbucks and watch people go by? Everyone has energy around them, and you can tell what kind of person they are just by the way they walk and talk.

I was really interested in observing people. From a young age, I wouldn't listen to what an adult was saying - I was obsessed with other people's body language.

Brains affect brains through far more means than words and listening.

There's things that you can learn by being in the room with people that's different than talking to them over the phone or reading a policy paper.

The one thing that robots really find difficult to do is to look someone in the eye and have a sense of how they're feeling. We should be teaching that in schools.

Our nonverbals govern how other people think and feel about us.

An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

Sometimes your body language is enough for an actor to know that you're not happy. And you don't really need to say it out loud if you deal with actors you know very well. And I don't think you really need to be explicit.

I see tendencies, I see body language.