Quotes About Interaction

He wondered why the stewardesses were looking at him funny by mid-flight, and realized he'd been responding to their rote kindness with the intensity of someone who has never experienced courtesy, or never expects to experience it again.

The way to come to tolerate and then enjoy being involved in the world is by being in the world.

Miró a las gentes agrupadas a su

se cuadró y pidió un aparte.

Every class has pupils who mimic the teachers particularly well and perform for their classmates; a class without such teacher-mimics would have something lifeless about it.

Denn schließlich ist man nicht verpflichtet auf die Dummheiten jedes Passanten einzugehen. Sich in reden zu verlieren ist die größte Gefahr die einen Gelehrten bedroht.

Suddenly he stopped in front of me and asked for a cigarette. I had a package of Players in my pocket and wanted to give them to him. But he refused to take the whole package, saying quite calmly that obviously he didn't have time to smoke them all.

The silence of two people is deeper than the silence of one. Involuntarily I began to talk.

Kodiak shrugs. I work out. I roll my eyes. I noticed. I noticed you noticing, he says, his eyes suddenly back on mine.

Thought it was funny to answer his phone by saying, "You DID?

He resents the very posture of people who are online, the way they bend their backs over their various devices, blocking out any possibility that they might engage with a real live person, who would never come with enough apps to satisfy them

Don't we all want company in some form, are we not attracted to the idea of a body beside us in a thunderstorm, or another voice to help decide on dinner, to share astonishment at the latest political buffoonery or appreciation for the lush sets on Downton Abbey? Are we not, at our most basic, social animals, people who need other people, whether we want to or not?

There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain lottery tickets I can buy, thereby increasing my odds of finding contentment. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom share my body and life and money and energy with.

The poet David Whyte calls this sense of creative entitlement "the arrogance of belonging," and claims that it is an absolutely vital privilege to cultivate if you wish to interact more vividly with life.

Be not solitary; be not idle.

What happened now? he would ask -- another man thoroughly exhausted by me.

When I was younger, I had wanted to be at the very center of all the action in New York, but I slowly came to realize that there is no one center. The center is everywhere—wherever people are living out their lives. It's a city with a million centers.

There will be two ships sailing, but you'll be on the Resolution, with Cook himself. Never put yourself in his way. Never speak to him. And if you do speak to him, which you must never do, certainly do to speak to him in the manner in which you have sometimes spoken to me. He will not find it as diverting as I do.

He and I had been talking about jazz (which is to say that he had been talking about jazz, and I had been listening to him talk about jazz, because that is how you talk to a man about jazz)

Creo que nuestro planeta está habitado no solo por animales, plantas, bacterias y virus, sino también por ideas. Las ideas son una forma de vida incorpórea, energética. Son algo completamente independiente de nosotros, pero capaz de interactuar con nosotros, si bien de maneras extrañas.

This is what flirtation is in its purest form—a conversation held without words. Flirtation is a series of silent questions that one person asks another person with their eyes.

He grinned, but a bead of sweat ran down his temple. "Then with your permission.

It is easy to fool people into thinking I am like everyone else in encounters like this. If the other person likes to talk, as this woman did, it is easier. All I have to say are a few conventional things and smile, and it is done.

His lips parted, but long years of experience with Ramses, and to some extent, Emerson, had taught me how to turn a conversation into a monologue.