Quotes About Interaction

Everything You Say or Do Is an Intervention that Determines the Future of the Relationship

The point is that no matter what you do or don't do, you are sending signals; you are intervening in the situation and therefore need to be mindful of that reality. Unless you are invisible you cannot help but communicate, so your choice of communication should be based on what kind of intervention you intend.

Ah, good conversation — there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

Without mankind machines are nothing.

Some people ask if I regret not having a family. Not at all. Some women are cut out to be mommies. Some are superwomen with the stamina to do it all. I am not one of them. My elementary school math teacher was right: I would have been a lousy housewife. Instead I am lucky enough to work and interact with talented and stimulating people on a job where no day is ever the same as any other. And I get to touch thousands of people in some way.

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A whole roomful of Jews is like a charged battery. The vitality sparks seem to fly, and frequently the result is a short circuit.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

Society is like a stew. If you don't keep it stirred up, you get a lot of scum on top.

Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.

Thus sometimes we watch individuals acting for their own ends with little thought of their effect on society at large.

Don't write if you can talk, don't talk if you can nod your head, don't nod your head if you don't have to.

It's good to talk.

Someone, somewhere, wants a letter from you.

Pie and coffee is approximately the third best social interaction a man can hope to have with a woman.

When Gandhi was asked what he thought of Western civilization, he said, "It would be nice."

The worst thing about a bore is not that he won't stop talking, but that he won't let you stop listening.

No one is listening until you fart.

You can't give a hug without getting a hug.

Yes, Officer, I did see the speed limit sign. I just didn't see you.

We didn't need dialogue. We had faces.

He saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom.

If you smile at someone, they might smile back.