Quotes About Interaction

Your puppy loves your attention and will repeat anything to get it — even if it's negative.

When it's said in a calming voice, you may use soft touches to separate your puppy if you feel they're playing too rough.

Other forms of discipline are often viewed by your puppy as confrontational play.

Avoid prolonged or assertively staring at you puppy when you address them. Either of these actions may be interpreted as confrontational play, making rowdy problems worse, not better. If the puppy cannot be redirected to a toy, stop touching them. To an excited young puppy, touch excites interactive play.

After a dog sniffs you over and accepts your nonthreatening posture, they'll likely retreat. If you need to move away, back away slowly and do not make eye contact with the dog.

I teach my human clients the importance of sitting or kneeling to pet or handle their puppy instead of bending over them, creating calming station for their puppy in the rooms they share, and playing with their puppy to strengthen their bond.

Am I actually smiling at Penny? I am. I am smiling at Penny.

My thesis is that at many levels of human interaction there is the opportunity to conflate discomfort with threat, to mistake internal anxiety for exterior danger, and in turn to escalate rather than resolve.

I never know what I'm doing on these sites.

Ik krijg niet de indruk dat de Autodidact zin heeft om te praten. Wat kijkt hij me vreemd aan: hij kijkt niet om iets te zien, maar om een soort zielsgemeenschap tot stand te brengen. De ziel van de Autodidact is omhooggestegen en in in zijn fraaie, nietsziende ogen aan de oppervlakte gekomen. Hij wil dat mijn ziel hetzelfde doet, dat ze haar neus tegen de ruiten zal drukken: dan kunnen onze zielen beleefdheden uitwisselen.

Society is what beats me. Alone I can be pretty good, but let me go among people and there's the devil to pay.

Everybody wants to have intimate conversations, but the smart fellows don't give out, only the fools. The smart fellows talk intimately about the fools, and examine them all over and give them advice.

There haven't been civilizations without cities. But what about cities without civilizations? An inhuman thing, if possible, to have so many people together who beget nothing on one another. No, but it is not possible, and the dreary begets its own fire, and so this never happens.

These were his friends of the business community; a man in business had to have such, and he visited and entertained but neither touched nor was touched, ever.

The real and essential question is one of our employment by other human beings and their employment by us.

Wilhelm thought, Why does it have to be me and my life that's discussed, and not him and his life? He would never allow it. But I am an idiot. I have no reserve. To me it can be done. I talk. I must ask for it. Everybody wants to have intimate conversations, but the smart fellows don't give out, only the fools. The smart fellows talk intimately about the fools, and examine them all over and give them advice. Why do I allow it?

shyness is caused by an internal feeling that you are not worthy to be in the conversation.

In an early article Jean Baudrillard wrote: "It is useless to fantasize about state projection of police control through TV. . . . TV, by virtue of its mere presence, is a social control in itself. There is no need to imagine it as a state periscope spying on everybody's life– the situation as it stands is more efficient than that: it is the certainty that people are no longer speaking to each other.

Since I have been obliged to associate continually with other people, and observe what they do, and how they employ themselves, I have become far better satisfied with myself.

It is a great folly to hope that other men will harmonize with us; I have never hoped this. I have always regarded each man as an independent individual, whom I endeavored to understand with all his peculiarities, but from whom I desired no further sympathy. In this way have I been enabled to converse with every man, and thus alone is produced the knowledge of various characters and the dexterity necessary for the conduct of life.

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

Desde qué ando todo el día entre la gente y veo lo que hacen y como se afanan, estoy mucho más contento de mi mismo

Mit Frauen soll man sich nie unterstehn zu scherzen." - Mephistopheles

What do you mean,who? You just saw me talking to her!" "If anyone was with you when I arrived, I'm afraid I didn't notice. My eyes were only on you.