“The problem is that most people spend their lives looking but not truly seeing, or, as Sherlock Holmes, the meticulous English detective, declared to his partner, Dr. Watson, “You see, but you do not observe.”

—  Joe Navarro

Source: What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People

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Author, professional speaker, ex-FBI agent and supervisor 1953

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