62 Gesture Quotes for You to Enjoy

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending. Virginia Satir

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. John Kenneth Galbraith

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We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind. Helena Blavatsky

Mind Will Thought Feeling Gesture Organic Every See Mental Emotion Volition Voluntary Motion Whether Produced Act Internal Mechanical External

It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean. Katharine Hepburn

You Rude Gesture Rather Clear Least Mean

Participation in and of itself is an act against hopelessness. Speaking up is a gesture against hopelessness. Anohni

Gesture Hopelessness Participation Up Itself Against Act Speaking

I was born deaf. I was raised in a hearing world and in a deaf world at the same time. I can't say that I like one better than I like the other. I like them both. I speak pretty well; I gesture. If I don't understand something, you know, pen and paper, texting. I use it all. Sean Berdy

Time You Speak World Better Gesture Other Paper Pen Say Born Pretty Something Both Like Know Well Deaf Understand Hearing Texting Than Same Same Time Them Use Raised

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Friendship Remember Matter Gesture Small Always How Appreciated

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. Helen Fisher

Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses. Henry Williamson

Gesture Every Everything Blood Senses Expression Utterance Symbolic

For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature. Octavio Paz

Art Nature Creative Poet Gesture Living Imitates Imitation Totality Aristotle According Greeks Egyptians Being Chinese Reason

I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place, the movement in the acting - none of it would be the way it is if I weren't a dancer. Ray Bolger

Time Gesture Every Dancer Dancing Way Would Would-Be None Am Line Were Get Movement Place Body Acting Pose

Putting forward your positive energy connects you back to basic human values which we all share. Good Deeds Day shows that no matter the size of the gesture, a smile that brightens someone else's day or volunteering in your community, we can all take active part in making a difference. Shari Arison

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The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people. Adolf Loos

I want to gesture toward a poetry of ourselves and others under the conditions of twenty-first-century absolutism, making us dimensional in a time when the human concrete is continually erased by state and religious violence and by disingenuous jargon serving state power. Adrienne Rich

Like Hipster Racism, Hipster Sexism is a distancing gesture, a belief that, simply by applying quotations, uncool, questionable, and even offensive material about women can be alchemically transformed. Alissa Quart

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Making music is an inward and outward gesture at once. I make it because I'm communing with a side of myself that might help me look people in the eye. But at the same time, I'm reaching out, in a way. Arca

I have one really nice watch. It's a white-face, stainless-steel Rolex Daytona. I wear it a lot. I got that in the middle of 'The Office.' All the guys in the writers' room were like, 'Let's all get a nice watch.' We were too busy to upgrade our lives in a big way, but we thought this was a nice symbolic gesture. B. J. Novak

Thought Big Gesture Nice Busy Too Our Way Our Lives Wear Guys Writers Like Daytona Got Were Lot Upgrade Office Get Middle Big Way Room Really Lives Watch Symbolic

Even the smallest gesture can make a huge difference. Billy Butler

Gesture Smallest Make Huge Huge Difference Difference Even

The American birthright belongs, potentially, to everyone. This is unprecedented. Other countries accept migrants on the basis of economic necessity or as a humanitarian gesture. Only in America is it the direct consequence of our foundational ideals. Bret Stephens

Gesture Other Other Countries Everyone Our Birthright Unprecedented Direct Only Potentially Economic Countries Ideals Accept America American Foundational Humanitarian Necessity Belongs Basis Consequence

We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every shape must be justified by various reasons that would reinforce their reason to be, their use, and will give more sense to their beauty. Christian de Portzamparc

Architecture Better Will Beauty Gesture Sense Living Every Must Would Above Give More Various Various Reasons Shape Rediscover Essence Justified Meaning Meaning Of Use Reason Reasons Reinforce Here Need

The essential gesture of the contemporary novel is to get people to turn the page, to entertain them, and I hate that. I want a novel where the gesture is towards existential investigation on every page. That, to me, is thrilling. David Shields

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Whether I'm doing a routine where I want to move people, or if I want to feel moved myself, I definitely tap into those moments where it's not just dancing or movement. It might just be a hand gesture or just a slow look, or even just the way you slightly tip your head forward. These subtleties speak volumes. Derek Hough

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