Quotes About Interaction

Dubliners talk to each other very easily. We talk as though getting back to it, after some interruption.

I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.

David thought living in a house was very difficult. It was not the house itself--that was lovely to be in--but the people. What was so difficult about them was that they constantly seemed to expect him to say and do things he would never have though of, and what appeared sensible and natural to him seemed to surprise them...

How do you define difficult?" "By your presence." She grinned fully, delighted to feel the tension dissipate. "Now you are just flattering me for no reason." He grunted. "On the contrary," she said, as if his grunt had been a worded response. "It was most flattering." He stared at her. "What? Did you think I wouldn't figure out how to interpret your grunts?

Mr. Wiggles seems taken with you." "It tried to urinate on me the other day. I prefer not to be 'taken' by something like that.

Sometimes the measure of a person can only be gleaned through his interactions with others.

She smiled at him. Why was she always smiling at him? It made him tense.

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

Talk is essential, talk stimulates, arguments clarify, speculations which are thrown out to the winds may fall like seed to spring up with a crop of perceptions.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.

She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance.

She was eager to stoop to his level.

It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.

She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.

Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are misanthropes, just sitting thinking, 'Oh, people are such a bunch of assholes,' but it's really not like that. We just have a smaller tolerance for what it takes to be with others. It means having to perform. I get so tired of communicating.

If you put individuals together in the right way, such that some individuals can use their reasoning powers to disconfirm the claims of others, and all individuals feel some common bond or shared fate that allows them to interact civilly, you can create a group that ends up producing good reasoning as an emergent property of the social system. This is why it's so important to have intellectual and ideological diversity within any group or institution whose goal is to find truth.

It's embarrassing when someone tells you that you have something stuck in your teeth. It's more embarrassing when that stuff stays stuck in your teeth because no one told you. By "being kind" and keeping what they see from you, they inadvertently deny you the chance to get the spinach out of your teeth.

Dans les rues, les gens qu'il saluait étaient toujours des jeunes, souvent des étudiants. Quand il s'arrêtait pour leur parler, je me tenais à l'écart, ils me regardaient furtivement. Après, il me racontait le parcours universitaire de celui que nous avions croisé, détaillant ses réussites ou ses échecs.

El saber común se ampliaba, un saber despreocupado y sin consecuencia del que, a diferencia de la escuela, solo teníamos que rendir cuentas en la conversación

Sa femme est à côté de moi. Je ne « sens » rien, sinon une espèce de curiosité, mais les quelques paroles qu'ils échangent tous les deux me relèguent à ma condition d'étrangère Ã¢â'¬â€œ doublement. Elle semble ne plus soupçonner quoi que ce soit.

Some people are friends, others are people you are forced to hang out with.

What we shouldn't do is keep our thoughts inside our heads, inert, unchanged by encounters with the world beyond the skull.

The good news: research shows that offering simple instructions to parents leads them to gesture more often; in turn, their children also gesture more.