Quotes About Interaction

You're being too nice about all this," she said. "You're right about that," he said, surprising her. "If you'd stop being so pitiful, I could drop the whole chivalry thing and stare at your tits.

All play means something.

The difference between being online and being physically among people, I saw in that moment, is a bit like the difference between pornography and sex: it addresses a basic itch, but it's never satisfying.

We touch our phones 2,617 times every twenty-four hours.

Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age (New York: Penguin, 2015), 42.

The comedian Marc Maron once wrote that "every status update is a just a variation on a single request: 'Would someone please acknowledge me?

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.

No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstood others.

The only means to gain one's ends with people are force and cunning. Love also, they say; but that is to wait for sunshine, and life needs every moment.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Did we force ourselves on you, or you on us?

The hands want to see, the eyes want to caress.

I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life.

Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them less.

Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life.

There's just something fascinating to me about watching a business interaction unfold, and the negotiation. And how everything is negotiable in life.

There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.

I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me

Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.

All my life I've been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.

The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

Don't text or twitter during the show. Just live your life. Don't keep telling people what you're doing. Just, because also - also - it lights up your big dumb face.

The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.