Quotes About Nonverbal Communication

#1. Compassion is not a dirty word. Compassion is not a sign of weakness. In my view, compassion in politics and in public policy is in fact a hallmark of great strength. It is a hallmark of a society which has about it a decency which speaks for itself.

Kevin Rudd

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Edward Sapir

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Muslims have great reverence in their prayers but not much intimacy.

Philip Yancey

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. Everyone has had, at a given moment, an extraordinary experience which will be for him, because of the memory of it he preserves, the crucial obstacle to his inner metamorphosis.

Emil Cioran

#12. 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

#13. When you think yourself as nothing,
Then something important will begin

Rajesh Nanoo

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

Graham Speechley

#15. The only way out is deeper in. It's what you don't yet know that can save you.

Irini Spanidou

#16. There will come a point that your story will take hold of you instead of you taking hold of your story.

Vanessa Carnevale

#17. 93/7 Rule: 93% of communication occurs through nonverbal behavior & tone; only 7% of communication takes place through the use of words.

John Stoker

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

Asa Don Brown

#19. On my gravestone, I want it to say, "I told you I was sick."

Tom Waits

#20. Purists maintain that if you go to a baseball game you will almost always see something you have never seen before. Unfortunately, it usually takes place in the stands.

Joe Queenan

#21. Organic Chemistry has become a vast rubbish heap of puzzling and bewildering compounds.

J. Norman Collie

#22. I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?

Guy De Maupassant

#23. 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

#24. 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

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

Richelle E. Goodrich

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

Leonard Mlodinow

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

Glen Davis

#28. Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one loves) and to say loudly: No!

Kurt Tucholsky

#29. The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.

Aristotle.