Theodore Isaac Rubin Quotes

I tend to absorb a lot of what other people are feeling.

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

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.

I've never lived in the visual world. I live very much in an emotional-contact world.

Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.

I pick up on other people's discomfort.

I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art.

The person you're playing must have feelings, but if he's not able to show them, then just the subtlest rumblings and nuances can say an incredible amount.

I was really interested in observing people. From a young age, I wouldn't listen to what an adult was saying - I was obsessed with other people's body language.

I know when people are with me or not. It's an instinct.

Dey's some things I don't got to be told. I kin read them in folks' eyes.

The process of receiving information for me is seeing, hearing, and feeling their energy in my frame of reference. That doesn't mean I see the individual, unfortunately.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

I do think, in general, children are so perceptive, and they watch and they get so much, and that's wonderful. And it's also difficult for them because they see so much, but they don't understand.

I drive my wife crazy. I'm hypersensitive, which she will often point out. She'll say something, and I find the way she said it hurtful. And she'll look at me like I'm an idiot and say, 'What are you talking about?' My radar is probably tuned way too sensitively. I wouldn't want to change it because I do think it's an important part of what I do.

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

It's kind of amazing how well you can get to know someone without talking.

I feel like I'm kind of a bit of a sponge in a way. Like, if people around me are going through things, I find it very hard not to be empathetic.

I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!

I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.

I think that I have a sensitivity toward people, and that is a strength.

There's something about studying body language and non-spoken emotion - I know the innate response. But to really study it like a science would be fun.

Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.