‘Walks are personal, a movement signature, and they tell us a lot . . . a person’s walk is so telltale for Paul Taylor, one of the world’s greatest modern-dance choreographers, walking is the first thing he ask dancers to do at his auditions.
“I can eliminate half of them by how they walk . . . They’re either too self-assured enough, or they’re just weird. You can tell an awful lot.” say Taylor'(from Walking with Grace, p.166-167, by Grace Killelea).
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Consider this . . .
What speaking behaviour regularly bores an audience?
You know this. It’s the monotonous voice.
First, the monotonous voice ‘loses’ the ear of an audience. Then, the minds of audience members start to wander . . . to other things…
‘let’s see I’ve got to get some chicken on the way home, the dry cleaning, then . . . ‘
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During his interview with Leigh Sales (7:30, ABC TV) on 7 February 2019 , Ken Henry, with the blow-torch of negative scrutiny squarely trained on him, grudgingly, showed cracks in his arrogant self-presentation.
Henry’s initial, pained countenance, downward gaze and mumbling speech at the start of the interview, was akin to a shameful, sheepish schoolboy in the principal’s office having to explain his poor behaviour.
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… can speak volumes about their real selves.”
This is part of a quote from the landmark book first published in 1986, by lawyer, sports agent and writer, Mark McCormack – What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School: Notes from a Street-smart Executive
Here’s the full excerpt from which the quote is taken, under the title Reading People.
In the excerpt McCormack mentions the phoniness of former U.S. president Richard Nixon. He met Nixon on two occasions.
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