Body Language Quotes:

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Life, Motivational, Confidence, Information And Communication, Language And Communication

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Language And Communication, Language Skills

We communicate all the time, even when we don't realize it. Be aware of body language

- Pat Summitt

topic: Basketball, Body, Language, Body Language

Body language is more powerful than words.

- Ricky Gervais

topic: Powerful, Body, Language, Body Language

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.

- Peter Guber

topic: Eye, Technology, Body, 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.

- Deborah Bull

source: "The power of good presentation: body language" by Donna Warrick, www.jamessonsolutions.com. June 15, 2017.

topic: Powerful, Talking, Tools, Body Language

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

topic: Fitness, Philosophical, Communication, Human Soul, Best Picture

If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them.

- John Napier

topic: Men, Empathy, Purpose, Concealing, Body Language

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

- Dale Carnegie

source: Dale Carnegie, Dorothy Carnegie (1977). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Communication, Language And Communication, Languages Communication

Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 4, sc. 5, l. 54

topic: Love, Eye, Feet, Her Eyes, Body Language

Just remember, the language of gesture is more effective than the spoken word. Body language is very powerful. Bring the balance within you and project that balance.

- Harbhajan Singh Yogi

topic: Powerful, Communication, Balance, Body Language

I speak two languages, Body and English.

- Mae West

topic: Two, Body, Language, Body Language

The whole reason to study (and learn to control) body language is to have that support (rather than undercut) your message.

- Nick Morgan

source: Source: bobmorris.biz

topic: Support, Body, Messages, Body Language, Undercut

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

- Abraham Maslow

topic: Communication, Way, Defense, Language And Communication, Languages Communication

Since an attitude is often expressed by our body language and by the looks on our faces, it can be contagious.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Attitude, Stay Positive, Looks, Body Language

Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

- Martha Graham

source: "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

topic: Inspirational, Dance, Art, Inspirational Dance, Language Acquisition

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Communication, Eye, Men, Language And Communication, Languages Communication

Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it.

- Amy Cuddy

topic: Motivation, Inspiration, Fake, Body Language, Self Transformation

People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language.

- Afrojack

topic: Reality, People, Fake, Realness, Body Language

Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally.

- Christian Louboutin

source: "25 of the Best Fashion Quotes of All Time" by Lauren Hutton, Krystin Arneson, Megan Gustashaw, Glamour, 2011.

topic: Fashion, Attitude, Shoes, Fashion Industry, Fashionista

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Communication, Thought Provoking, Bravery, Language And Communication, Languages Communication

Your body language shapes who you are

- Amy Cuddy

source: Amy Cuddy (2016). “Presença - Aprenda a impor-se aos grandes desafios”, p.312, Leya

topic: Body, Shapes, Language, Body Language, Body Shapes

If you adopt the body language of a power player, it will greatly facilitate your ability to be a power player.

- Nick Morgan

source: Source: bobmorris.biz

topic: Player, Body, Language, Body Language

Every day, we communicate more with our energy, body language, face and eyes. That really is what communication is, and not so much words. And it's rare that you get to explore that in a film.

- Dakota Fanning

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Communication, Eye, Energy, Body Language

I kind of do this awkward body language because, growing up, I had a really hard time expressing myself vocally.

- Analeigh Tipton

topic: Growing Up, Hard Times, Awkward, Body Language

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

- Abraham Maslow

topic: Communication, Way, Language, Language And Communication, Languages Communication

It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way you express yourself. You have to exaggerate your body language and your facial expressions.

- Jodelle Ferland

topic: Expression, Body, Speech, Using Words, Facial Expression

Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.

- Radclyffe Hall

source: Radclyffe Hall (1956). “The well of loneliness”, Anchor

topic: Mind, Body, Emotion, Body Language

Whenever I've been bitten, it's because I made a mistake. I either misread the dog's body language or let my guard down at the wrong time.

- Cesar Millan

source: Source: www.student-weekly.com

topic: Mistake, Language, Wrong Time, Body Language

Animation taught me to draw quickly and clearly and to communicate a character's feelings through his or her body language and facial expressions.

- Vera Brosgol

topic: Character, Expression, Feelings, Facial Expression, Body Language

I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.

- Alan Lewis

topic: Thinking, Player, Trying, Body Language

Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture.

- Helen Fisher

topic: Reading, Voice, Body, Estrogen, Body Language

Women's body language speaks eloquently, though silently, of her subordinate status in a hierarchy of gender.

- Sandra Bartky

source: Sandra Lee Bartky (1990). “Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression”, p.74, Psychology Press

topic: Body, Hierarchy, Language, Body Language, Subordinates

I'm in the back of a limousine with Charlie Chaplin and it’s 1928. Charlie is beautiful; his body language seems to skip, and reel and rhyme, heartbreaking and witty at the same time. It seems to promise a better world.

- Geoff Ryman

source: Geoff Ryman (2013). “Paradise Tales: and Other Stories”, p.167, Small Beer Press

topic: Beautiful, Witty, Promise, Chaplin, Limousines

I see tendencies, I see body language.

- Michael Chang

topic: Body, Language, Tendencies, Body Language

Donald Trump doesn't have significant tells when he's lying because truth and lies to him are kind of homogenized. He's such a pro at it that you don't see a lot of divergence in his body language when he's lying or telling the truth. It's just constant bulls**t. He's probably a very good bluffer.

- Daniel Negreanu

source: Source: www.esquire.com

topic: Lying, Language, Kind, Body Language

You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do.

- Ron Silver

topic: Motivation, Thinking, People, Body Language

I can't just tell the guys I want the ball, I have to do it with my body language.

- LaMarcus Aldridge

topic: Guy, Balls, Body, Body Language

Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.

- Anne Parillaud

topic: Voice, Athletic, Essentials, Body Language

And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.

- Delta Burke

topic: Real, Talking, Body, Body Language

The mood was terrible. You could see it in everybody's eyes. The body language was just defeated. When they put me in I was hoping I could give us some energy and try to bring us back.

- Billy Campbell

topic: Eye, Giving, Trying, Body Language

A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.

- Edward R. Murrow

topic: Men, Wish, Body, Body Language

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

- Kenneth Lee Pike

source: Kenneth Lee Pike (1967). “Language in relation to a unified theory of the structure of human behavior”, Mouton De Gruyter

topic: Language, Theory, Methodology, Body Language, Nonverbal

In this respect, I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry [Kasparov]. With his very emotive body language at the [chess]board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.

- Vladimir Kramnik

topic: Opposites, Body, Chess, Body Language

The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.

- Charlotte Rampling

topic: Musical, Movement, Body, Body Language, Body Movement

In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.

- Russell Baker

topic: Writing, Play, Roles, Body Language

Horses are very keen on body language, and what I refer to as “presence”, and expression. They know quite a bit about you before you ever get to ‘em. They can read things about you clear across an arena.

- Buck Brannaman

source: "The Real “Horse Whisperer”". Interview with Andrew Howley, voices.nationalgeographic.org. June 16, 2011.

topic: Horse, Expression, Ems, Keenness, Your Presence

Never ask a woman if you may kiss her. Instead, learn to read body language.

- Neil Strauss

topic: Kissing, May, Body, Body Language

You see Bill Clinton, and you say: Oh, this guy cares about me. Hillary Clinton isn't the same way. You see her, and you don't necessarily have that view. She's trying to achieve the same thing without the voice and the body language, and she's having a harder time doing it. But when she's effective, that's what she's effective at.

- George Lakoff

source: Source: truth-out.org

topic: Body Language

Every big company has some little guy who is an enthusiast off in the corner working on technology. In Japan, it is integrated into their high-level strategy. They see it as a communication medium, because for them, just the words  -  and this is the problem that they have with Americans  -  just the words they say to you is not the complete message. Their facial expressions, their body language, there is a lot of context. Also, their written language doesn't translate to keyboards well.

- Howard Rheingold

source: Source: medium.com

topic: Communication, Technology, Japan, Facial Expression, Written Language