Quotes About Interaction

Kristy smirked at me.

How's it going, Johnny?" I asked, looking back at Johnny and his magazine. "Super!" he said, in his charming Australian accent.

I just love checking our mailbox. There is something about getting mail that is exciting. Going out to the box each afternoon is sometimes the highlight of my day.

So I guess you're the new neighbors," said Zander. "Well, see you." He strode up the walk to his house and let himself inside, the screen door slamming behind him. "He thinks he's so great," muttered Abby, and strode into her own house.

Interestingly, when one functions in this mode, one quickly recognizes all the other people who are playing the same game. I had many encounters wherein I would meet the eyes of a person across the room, and suddenly we were playing War of the Warlocks: two strangers holding each other's gaze well past the point that our primate genes or cultural conditioning would ordinarily countenance. Play this game long enough and you begin to have some very strange encounters.

Psychopaths tend to make exceptionally good eye contact.

Like some dogs, you don't want to catch his eye.

She keeps coming over to my table and asking me if everything's all right, as though I might be able to reassure her that the world is not coming to an end. "Yes," I tell her. "Everything's fine. It's just history running its course." She smiles sweetly and flees.

I learned early on that one of the secrets to campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you.

Closer at hand, I had decided I wanted to be president of the university student body. I learned early on that one of the secrets to campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I did that in college.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Meeting new people feels like dating. I try to find someone I like, casually start a conversation, and hope we have things in common.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.

I look upon every day to be lost in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

There is nothing by which a man exasperates most people more, than displaying a superior ability of briliancy in conversation. They seem pleased at the time; but their envy makes them curse him at their hearts.

He that speaks doth gripe the hearer's wrist,While he that hears makes fearful actionWith wrinkled brows.Shakesp.King John.

Many complain of neglect who never tried to attract regard.

He that has collected his knowledge in solitude must learn its application by mixing with mankind.

It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm.

In the mean time, to Balls, Routes, Drums, and so-forth; and to qualify me for these latter

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.

Look. I know you're just trying to make friendly conversation to fill an awkward silence between strangers, but I'm not big on friendly conversation, and I don't find silences awkward. In fact I like silences and prefer strangers.

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