A Quote by Edward Sapir

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

Edward Sapir

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Edward Sapir
American - Scientist
January 26, 1884 - February 4, 1939

We routinely participate in elaborate nonverbal exchanges even when we are not consciously aware of doing so.

Leonard Mlodinow

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Glen Davis

Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there

Jeanette Winterson

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Barry Trotz

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

Leonard Mlodinow

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Bobby Wagner

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

J. B. Priestley

The genetic code is not a binary code as in computers, nor an eight-level code as in some telephone systems, but a quaternary code with four symbols. The machine code of the genes is uncannily computerlike.

Richard Dawkins

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

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Paul Pierce

Many people with autism struggle with reading nonverbal cues and acting on them. When you lose that ability to understand and process nonverbal cues, you're at a huge disadvantage socially.

Rana el Kaliouby

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.

Michael Arden

I come from a part of Nigeria where a lot of value is placed on implicit communication. The 'well brought up' child is the one who can pick up nonverbal cues from adults and interpret them correctly.

Ayobami Adebayo

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.

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