Unspoken Messages Quotes

Not to act is to act. Not to speak is to speak.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

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.

We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.

When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.

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

In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.

In life, people talk at right angles. One asks a question, and the other replies in part, then uses that part to move the conversation to something else. Everyone has an agenda, has something they're trying to say - or not say.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.

Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.

The Japanese tend to communicate via nuance and euphemism, often leaving important things unsaid; whereas Americans tend to think they're being subtle when they refrain from grabbing the listener by the shirt.

You can almost read any emotion through someone's eyes.

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.

Sexual signals can be received without being consciously sent.

Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying.

Sometimes our passion will motivate us to say things that can easily be misunderstood.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

I don't think that the spoken words solve everything. Sometimes silence delivers truer feelings while the words can distort the meaning in some situations.

I'm friendly - maybe that's taken as flirtatious. Which I don't mind!

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your 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.

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

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.