Quotes About Interaction

At its most elementary form, the process involves (1) an innovation, (2) an individual or other unit of adoption that has knowledge of the innovation or experience with using it, (3) another individual or other unit that does not yet have experience with the innovation, and (4) a communication channel connecting the two units. A communication channel is the means by which messages get from one individual to another.

Rosalind: Cecelia, darling, you don't know what a trial it is to be like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me. If I laugh hard from a front row in the theatre, the comedian plays to me for the rest of the evening. If I drop my voice, my eyes, my handkerchief at a dance, my partner calls me up on the phone every day for a week.

La máquina habla a la máquina antes de hablar al hombre.

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.

Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery.

They talked aimlessly back and forth, each speaking for the other.

How do you do, Captain," she said, unfastening her eyes from his with difficulty, as though they had become entangled.

You will feel your own reflection sliding along the eyes of those who look at you. You are no longer insulated; but I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

He wondered idly whether she was a poor conversationalist because she got no attention or got no attention because she was a poor conversationalist.

And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy.

I returned rather feebly to the subject of her daughter. 'I suppose she talks, she eats, and everything.

He waited rather breathlessly for her next remark...

He had fixed his aunt with the bright-yellow eye, giving her that acute and exaggerated attention that young males are accustomed to render to all females who are of no further value.

and I was conscious of wanting to look squarely at every one and yet to avoid all eyes.

Mais comment faites-vous pour y vivre seul? — Je m'arrange pour qu'elle soit pleine de monde, jour et nuit. Pleine de gens intéressants. Qui font des choses intéressantes.

As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table—the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone. I

Do all the Americans in Paris just shoot at each other all the time?

I returned rather feebly to the subject of her daughter. "I suppose she talks, and—eats, and everything.

I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy.

I suppose she talks, and—eats, and everything.

If you did tell the truth or if you didn't, there were always consequences. Human interaction was difficult at best.

Alla gente non piacciono questi fatti, ma non so che cosa farci. Se qualcuno ti chiede come stai, si aspetta che tu risponda BENE. Non devi dire che la sera prima ti sei addormentata piangendo perché erano due giorni di fila che non parlavi con un'altra persona. Devi dire: BENE.

When you teleconference, you are spending social capital rather than building it.