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Nonverbal Quotes

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children
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Richard Rohr
“Our first experience of life is primarily felt in the *body.* ... We know ourselves in the security of those who hold us and gaze upon us. It's not heard or seen or thought it's felt. That's the original knowing.”
― Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer
tags: body, body-and-mind, body-image, body-language, body-mind, identity, knowing, nonverbal, original-nature, primal, wordless
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Joe Riggs
“True deduction can only be obtained through a certain amount of self annihilation.”
― Joe Riggs, The Real Sherlock Holmes: The mysterious methods and curious history of a true mental specialist
tags: body-language, deduction, mentalism, nonverbal, reading-people, sherlock-holmes, sherlock-holmes-deduction
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Thomm Quackenbush
“He seemed like the sort to have a vast arsenal of smirks, shaped over a decade of nonverbal conversation.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods
tags: conversation, nonverbal, smile, smirk
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Asa Don Brown
“Communication can be sent or received through verbal or nonverbal cues.”
― Asa Don Brown, Interpersonal Skills in the Workplace, Finding Solutions that Work
tags: communication, dr-asa-don-brown, interpersonal-skills, intrapersonal-skills, nonverbal, verbal, violence, workplace
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“The room was very quiet with that familiar deepening that arrives when something is happening underneath, beyond the words.”
― Bonnie Badenoch, The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
tags: attunement, empathy, healing, nonverbal, person-centered, resonnance
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Corinne Duyvis
“I know you're worried. I'm sorry. I'm just...very..." I can't think of the right word. How do I explain that mind is too slow and too jumbled all at once. That I'm out of gas? That I've failed, and the only way to keep from falling apart is to accept that? Or that maybe I've already fallen apart, and I don't know if I can sweep the pieces back together?
I settle on three words. "I am tired.”
― Corinne Duyvis, On the Edge of Gone
tags: autism, burnout, disability, nonverbal, overstimulation, semiverbal, shutdown, speech-issues
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Corinne Duyvis
“I'm getting so sick of talking. It's like holding the wrong kind of magnets together: I can try and try, but it takes brute force, and the second I relax, the magnets simply slide past each other.”
― Corinne Duyvis, On the Edge of Gone
tags: autism, nonverbal, semiverbal, shutdown, speech-issues
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Carol Cujec
“My ears work. My brain understands. Can't you see I am a REAL PERSON?”
― Carol Cujec, Real
tags: autism, autism-spectrum, neurodiversity, nonverbal, special-needs, special-needs-children, special-needs-people
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Chris Voss
“Yes,” as I always say, is nothing without “How?” You’ll also discover the importance of nonverbal communication; how to use “How” questions to gently say “No”,”
― Chris Voss, Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
tags: communication, how, nonverbal, say-no
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Corinne Duyvis
“I don't think you're even hearing me."
Her laugh turns into a sob.
I'm listening. I just don't know what to say, or how. Words crawl in the back of my mind but won't take enough shape to reach my tongue.”
― Corinne Duyvis, On the Edge of Gone
tags: autism, nonverbal, semiverbal, shutdown, speech-issues
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Carol Cujec
“FOR US, EACH WORD IS A GIFT.”
― Carol Cujec, Real
tags: nonverbal, special-needs, word, words
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