Barack Obama Quotes

Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.

I like my hands. They do most of the talking.

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

I move my face so much, because I'm very much expressive.

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.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

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.

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.

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

Naturally, my body language changes given whatever environment I'm in.

Modeling is really silent acting.

I think you can actually express a lot more in ways without words.

There's many ways you communicate. With colour, texture, sound... Even words can communicate.

I literally can't talk without moving hands.

I don't think people are going to talk in the future. They're going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

The body is a universal language. Because if you spoke French, and I speak English, but I move like this or do certain movements, I can still make you smile and laugh.

When you talk about objects, one other thing automatically comes attached to that thing, and that is gestures: how we manipulate these objects, how we use these objects in everyday life. We use gestures not only to interact with these objects, but we also use them to interact with each other.

Gestures and facial expressions do indeed communicate, as anyone can prove by turning off the sound on a television set and asking watchers to characterize the speakers from the picture alone.

% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

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

Hands have their own language.

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

I see tendencies, I see 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.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.