Wendell Berry Quotes

I think there's a great deal of information you can convey with looks or silence.

Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.

I see tendencies, I see body language.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

Gestures matter.

We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.

Watch their hands, watch their eyes. Read eyes. No matter what a man is saying to you, it's not as important as what you can read in his eyes. The most important thing a man has to tell you is what he's not telling you; the most important thing he has to say is what he's trying not to say.

% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer. If they were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no words would be suffered.

Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.

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.

I like my hands. They do most of the talking.

Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.

You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.

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.

I think you can actually express a lot more in ways without words.

Ninety-eight per cent of all human communication is non-verbal.

I love communicating non-verbally. I find great value in it.

No matter what you say in carefully chosen sentences, girls will detect both the spoken and unspoken messages.

Body language and tone of voice - not words - are our most powerful assessment tools.

I move my face so much, because I'm very much expressive.

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.

Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication.

People generally express more in between their sentences when they're not speaking. Words are usually there to disguise who someone is or what they're feeling.