Nonverbal Quotes

#1. The testers found that training attention not only improved executive control; scores on nonverbal tests of intelligence also improved and the improvement was maintained for several months.

Daniel Kahneman

#2. He seemed like the sort to have a vast arsenal of smirks, shaped over a decade of nonverbal conversation.

Thomm Quackenbush

#3. Genuineness requires listening through both verbal and nonverbal channels.

Joseph Michelli

#4. Jacob cut his gaze to me. I wasn't quiet sure how to convey, /I know we hate him, but based on the circumstances, it was the most logical thing to do/, with a nonverbal signal. I widened my eyes a little.

Jordan Castillo Price

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

Kenneth L. Pike

#6. Couples who are in love want to gaze into each other's eyes. Prolonged eye contact is one of the most powerful nonverbal ways we communicate interest in others. So

Nancy C. Anderson

#7. Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.

Rowan Atkinson

#8. I appreciate the written word and spoken word more, but Atonement sort of established so much of me. It was a character that didn't really speak, and I found that a lot of the roles I was gravitating toward after that were kind of nonverbal.

Saoirse Ronan

#9. 93/7 Rule: 93% of communication occurs through nonverbal behavior & tone; only 7% of communication takes place through the use of words.

John Stoker

#10. Communication can be sent or received through verbal or nonverbal cues.

Asa Don Brown

#11. Authority - when abused through micromanagement, intimidation, or verbal or nonverbal threats - makes people shut down & productivity ceases.

John Stoker

#12. It's nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. And I know it's around me somewhere, but I just can't feel it.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#13. My drawing, like that of most cartoonists, is intended first of all to be functional: to create believable space and communicate information. My strongest point in drawing has always been my ability to show characters' nonverbal communication through facial expression and posture.

Jessica Abel

#14. Wise is the man who learns the nonverbal language of his wife, who notes the nod and discerns the gestures. It's not just what is said, but how. It's not just how, but when. It's not just when, but where. Good husbanding is good decoding. You've got to read the signs.

Max Lucado

#15. Reading is a source of liberation. Children who are taught to read early on, are commonly taught to communicate in other significant verbal and nonverbal ways.

Asa Don Brown

#16. Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.

Betty Edwards

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

Leonard Mlodinow

#18. The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal.

Janet Echelman

#19. I was analyzing the guys' nonverbal communication..

Glen Davis

#20. If you want to create vital, long-lasting love, you must become a master of verbal & nonverbal appreciation

Gay Hendricks

#21. People's emotions are rarely put into words , far more often they are expressed through other cues.
the key to intuiting another's feelings is in the ability to read nonverbal channels , tone of voice , gesture , facial expression and the like

Daniel Goleman

#22. So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?

Jodi Picoult

#23. Did you get the cup?"
I held it up.
"Is it the right one?" she said.
I am not good at nonverbal communication, but I believe I managed to convey the fact that while I might be a petty thief, I do not make errors of observation.

Graeme Simsion

#24. Peace is not a thought, not a concept; it is a nonverbal experience.

Henepola Gunaratana

#25. Rather than being nonverbal, individuals with NLD generally present with abundant verbal ability, with many showing precocious language development and
high levels of vocabulary and general knowledge.

Maggie Mamen

#26. Instrumental music is nonverbal and thus radically ambiguous. It doesn't lend itself to what might be called content-oriented analysis, though plenty of intellectuals have tried to analyze it in precisely that way.

Terry Teachout

#27. Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'

Temple Grandin

#28. Women are superior to men in decoding nonverbal cues (Rosenthal and DePaulo 1979).

David B. Givens

#29. When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can't cover himself with words, he can't create a wall.

Marina Abramovic

#30. Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal more than our carefully chosen words, and sometimes be at odds with them.

Leonard Mlodinow

#31. The chimpanzees taught me a lot about nonverbal communication. The big difference between them and us is that they don't have spoken language. Everything else is almost the same: Kissing, embracing, swaggering, shaking the fist.

Jane Goodall

#32. Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.

Edward Sapir

#33. One of the most surprising forms of nonverbal communication is the way we automatically adjust the amount of time we spend looking into another's eyes as a function of our relative social position.

Leonard Mlodinow

#34. The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations.

B.F. Skinner

#35. Children are sponges, soaking up every verbal and nonverbal interaction.

Asa Don Brown

#36. We routinely participate in elaborate nonverbal exchanges even when we are not consciously aware of doing so.

Leonard Mlodinow

#37. Working with Tim Burton is like a psychic experience -Tim waves his hands and says, 'I don't know,' and you go home and do it. He's the most articulate nonverbal person in the world. He doesn't say a word, and you know exactly what it means.

Caroline Thompson

#38. Lies can be verbal or nonverbal, kindhearted or self-serving, devious or bald-faced; they can be lies of omission or lies of commission; they can be lies that undermine national security or lies that make a child feel better. And each type might involve a unique neural pathway.

Robin Marantz Henig

#39. When introverts are in conflict with each other ... it may require a map in order to follow all the silences, nonverbal cues and passive-aggressive behaviors!

Adam S. McHugh

#40. All that we know about the interaction between leaders and constituents or followers tells us that communication and influence flow in both directions; and in that two-way communication, nonrational, nonverbal, and unconscious elements play their part.

John W. Gardner

#41. Children between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from very high functioning, capable of doing normal school work, to nonverbal who have all kinds of neurological problems.

Temple Grandin

#42. I have never been much at nonverbal communication. Additionally, I don't have much of an attention span, and what I lack in patience I make up for in ambivalence and an inability to sleep.

Carrie Fisher

#43. Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.

Jeffrey Kluger

#44. Who is Mike Judge? Let me think. The only way I could possibly answer that question would be in a nonverbal fashion. I think I could do an interpretive dance that would answer that question for you.

Mike Judge

#45. The things you say, the things you don't say, the things you do, or the things you don't do are always sending a loud message to those around you. What kind of a message are you sending? Is it a true reflection of who you are?

Lindsey Rietzsch

#46. True deduction can only be obtained through a certain amount of self annihilation.

Joe Riggs

#47. As proof that HOW we see things matters, Gen. Montgomery took a preprepared text that had been deemed an innocuous complement to his American troops and delivered it in such a way that his condescension prompted more division than unity.

Jean Edward Smith

#48. Our first experience of life is primarily felt in the *body.* ... We know ourselves in the security of those who hold us and gaze upon us. It's not heard or seen or thought it's felt. That's the original knowing.

Richard Rohr

#49. Listen with your eyes as well as your ears.

Graham Speechley

#50. I'll never get to hear her say, 'I love you, Mommy,' like other parents take for granted.

Kelly Moran

#51. Few realize how loud their expressions really are. Be kind with what you wordlessly say.

Richelle E. Goodrich