Words matter. These are the best Nonverbal Quotes from famous people such as Leonard Mlodinow, Thomas Newman, Temple Grandin, Mike Judge, Michael Arden, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.
What satisfies me most are those nonverbal moments with players, when I sense them thinking and responding. And I think, ‘Wow, this is amazing.’ Hollywood gives us the money to do this. I want to be grateful for that, and I also don’t want to waste it.
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.’
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.
I would love to create a piece of theater that is devised by a company of actors and creators that I’d put together, and I’d love for it to be nonverbal so it’s something that someone with any communication ability can enjoy.
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.
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.
Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
I loved cartoons as a kid, and so many funny moments in animation for me are nonverbal sounds, unarticulated mouth noise.
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.
I feel like women bond with other women in this nonverbal way, where they take on each other’s gestures. You start dressing more like each other, you eat the same food… It’s a way of expressing regard: I want to be like you. Which is flattering, but if you view it another way, terrifying.
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.
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.
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.
Andy was a nonverbal person; you couldn’t get directions out of him. All he knew was what was modern in art was what wasn’t art: The telephone was art, the pizza was art, but what was hanging on walls in museums wasn’t art.
