Body Quote by Claudia Rankine

If you track something like a political campaign and parcel out what's being communicated in a literal and narrative sense, and what's being communicated…

— Bennett Miller

“Perhaps if we were consciously able to use our bodies as fluently and expressively as we use language, we would find the physical reaction…

— Frank Gohlke

If, on the other hand, we wish to describe a particular phenomenon without repressing our direct experience, then we cannot avoid speaking of the…

— David Abram

“In almost any aspect of our social lives, the ability to interpret accurately the signals of body language, and to manage the impression we…

— Glen Wilson

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an…

— Edward Sapir

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

— Lewis Thomas

We, as writers, have to figure out a way to create a consciousness in language. It's crazy even to attempt to do that.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

— Abraham Maslow

I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and…

— Ntozake Shange

Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

— Lewis Thomas

“Language enables the left hemisphere to represent the world ‘off-line’, a conceptual version, distinct from the world of experience, and shielded from the immediate…

— Iain McGilchrist

“A serious problem with reactive language is that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. People become reinforced in the paradigm that they are determined, and…

— Stephen R. Covey