Quotes About Interaction

Think back to some encounter you had today in your office, in a store, with a servant or tradesman in your home. Try to remember just the form your request took. Making all due allowances for courtesy, or for the respectfulness due to superiors and elders, was there not in addition a tentativeness about your request? Didn't you ask for coöperation in such a way as to leave room for refusal, or grudging action, or for being ignored?

Talk for fifteen minutes a day without using I, me, my, mine.

In nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation. —JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER

she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant

most people do not participate in the making of culture.

She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

When asked the inevitable question of "Does the ball ever talk back?" Mark answered, "The only time that happens is when it's going over the fence, it yells back to me that I shouldn't have thrown that pitch.

Mark told reporters why he always threw the ball back to the umpire to exchange for a new one after a base hit. "That ball has a hit in it," he explained. "I want that ball to get back in the ball bag and goof around with the other balls. I want him to talk to the other balls. I want the other balls to beat him up. Maybe that'll smarten him up so when he comes out the next time, he'll pop up.

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

Emma has just rung and sarcastically asked me if I was ever planning on asking her out again. After fighting back my initial reaction to answer 'only if you're going to put out this time,' I told her that, in these days of equality, it was her turn to ask me. Which, amazingly enough, she did.

TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.

We used to spend quality time with a few people. Actually with them—physically. For hours on end. Now we spend time interacting with hundreds of people, but on our phones, or sitting in a chair all alone facing a computer screen.

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. (from Mostly Harmless)

Limbic consonance is the little-known process through which the mood of a room changes when a happy or nervous person walks in.

I would define media in this way: working out from and including our bodies, media also include our clothes, other people, and tools, including especially tools for communication and infrastructure.

El fenómeno de sincronicidad descrito por Jung se fundamenta en lo anterior. Estrictamente hablando, el atractor extraño no "elige" a sus representantes y difusores, sino más bien estos se colocan en el estado que favorece la "contactación", entendiendo a esta última como la activación de una interacción coherente que solamente se da cuando la morfología del campo individual coincide con la del atractor.

La cimática es, según su inventor Hans Jenny (1974), el estudio de patrones avivados por la interacción con campos energéticos. El

Its such a small place, not much to do but talk and listen. The men are jealous and the women all in competition.

When a person is talking, they aren't listening; Fools are made this way.

Dans cette grande salle sans glaces, chacun d'entre nous devient le miroir des autres.

On a crowded train, for example, it's no big deal if you're squeezed in against other people. But if someone stands right next to you when the train is empty, it's actually kind of repellant

I asked him was he limpin' or pimpin'. He said he was pimpin'. I said that looked like a limp to me.