J. August Richards Quotes

When two people are paying close attention to each other, check out the others in the group and see who's observing. Human dynamics are amazing, but so much that you might learn is subconscious interplay.

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

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

I've always really been interested in observing people's postures, the way they speak with their hands, the way they communicate things with their body language.

Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.

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.

Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought.

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.

Children are extremely perceptive and absorb what goes on around them long before they can talk or even comprehend language. They are like finely tuned receivers that pick up much more than is merely said. They are receptive and attuned to every mood, feeling, and change that goes on in people around them.

Verbal slip-ups often occur because we say things without knowledge of the subtle implications they carry. Understanding these implications requires social awareness - the ability to pick up on the emotions and experiences of other people.

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.

I can read people, and if the other person doesn't want to say anything, I'm fine with that. People say things when it's time to say them.

There's as much revealed in the way a person lifts a glass as in what they say about some political issue.

Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language.

I tell you I can't read a book, but I can read de people.

When people walk in a room, the way they sit or they talk, that itself tells me a story.

It's very easy to imagine someone online in a positive way, but it's only when you sit down, with all five senses in play, that you can really tell, 'Do I find this person attractive?'

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.

The first thing that I see in a woman are her eyes. Sorry, it sounds shallow, but eyes say a lot about a person.

Human interaction is not a simple thing.

I feel like I can get a good feel for people.

It's only in silence that you can judge of your relationship to a person.

My radar, after all these years of sanity, is still off when it comes to what people do or don't mean.

Our nonverbals govern how other people think and feel about us.

Bodies always understand each other, even when the souls do not.