Quotes About Interaction

An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction.

We become what we become not only through our DNA or only through our environment, but through their interaction.

Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

All I wanted was to be left alone. They abhor a vacuum, other people. You find a quiet corner where you can hunker down in peace, and the next minute there they are, crowding around you in their party hats, tooting their paper whistles in your face and insisting you get up and join in the knees-up.

There's a rule or something that if a girl can crack you up, you have to do what she says.

Women thought me charmingly shy, and sometimes stopped at nothing to "penetrate the disdainful shell of my fear," as one of their number put it. Often as not, it was they who got penetrated.

Would you care to sit down here and tell me all about it?

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

insan?n bir ?eye dokunmas? demek, kendisini o ?eyle ili?kili bir duruma sokmas? demektir.

Since the earliest period of our life was preverbal, everything depended on emotional interaction. Without someone to reflect our emotions, we had no way of knowing who we were.

human responses aren't additive in the same way that objects are additive. Whereas four lightbulbs illuminate a room more effectively than three lightbulbs, and three loudspeakers fill a room with noise more effectively than two loudspeakers, two people are often less effective than a single person.

If you're not able to communicate successfully between yourself and yourself, how are you supposed to make it with the strangers outside?

The cartoonist Jules Feiffer, contemplating the communication problem in a nonindustrial context, has said, "Actually, the breakdown is between the person and himself. If you're not able to communicate successfully between yourself and yourself, how are you supposed to make it with the strangers outside?

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If your only nice to the people that are nice to you, big deal; what do you want, a gist certificate? Everyone does that. And if you only say "hi" in the hall to the people that say hi to you, what are doing more than anyone else? Maybe you know people who are different when they're alone than when they're with their friends. they might say "hi" to you if your alone, but with a group they act like they've never seen you.

Composing's one thing, performing's another, listening's a third. What can they have to do with one another?

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I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss—you can't do it alone.

In general it's a good idea to avoid people who take themselves too seriously. As individuals, we have only so much seriousness to go round, and people who take themselves very seriously don't have enough seriousness left over to take other people seriously. Instead they tend to look down on them, and are secretly pleased when they get stuff wrong, because they just prove to the too-serious types that they were right not to take them too seriously to begin with.

If you really want to annoy someone, you can make little inverted commas by holding up two fingers of each hand and twitching them gently, as though you're tickling an invisible elf under the armpits. For example, when your mother calls you for dinner, and dinner turns out to be boiled fish and broccoli, you can say to her, "Well, I'll just eat my 'dinner', then," and do the little fingers sign. She'll love it. Seriously. I can hear her laughing already.

A funny thing about adults is they will spend time with people they don't like very much if they think it might benefit them.

Mr. Renfield didn't like the Abernathys, exactly, but a funny thing about adults is that they will spend time with people they don't like very much if they think it might benefit them.

I'd ask you in for a nightcap, but I have no booze. Oh, and I don't want to. There's that too." "I won't take it personally." "I really wish that you would," she said, and then she was gone.