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Quotes About Interaction

The origin of the human condition is best explained by the natural selection for social interaction—the inherited propensities to communicate, recognize, evaluate, bond, cooperate, compete, and from all these the deep warm pleasure of belonging to your own special group.
~ Edward O. Wilson
if our genes are inherited and our environment is a train of physical events set in motion before we were born, how can there be a truly independent agent within the brain? The agent itself is created by the interaction of the genes and the environment.
~ Edward O. Wilson
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
~ Edward R. Murrow
People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
~ Edward R. Murrow
Only two industries refer to their customers as 'users': computer design and drug dealing
~ Edward R. Tufte
The best way to contradict him is to let him talk
~ Edward St Aubyn
Most of culture lies hidden and is outside voluntary control, making up the warp and weft of human existence. Even when small fragments of culture are elevated to awareness, they are difficult to change, not only because they are so personally experienced but because people cannot act or interact at all in any meaningful way except through the medium of culture.
~ Edward T. Hall
Everything man is and does is modified by learning and is therefore malleable. But once learned, these behavior patterns, these habitual responses, these ways of interacting gradually sink below the surface of the mind and, like the admiral of a submerged submarine fleet, control from the depths. The hidden controls are usually experienced as though they were innate simply because they are not only ubiquitous but habitual as well.
~ Edward T. Hall
Although providing a corrective emotional experience may sound easy, it can be challenging to do—especially when all of this is so new to therapists-in-training. To help, Hill (2009) encourages therapists to be asking themselves the same process-oriented question throughout each session: Right now, am I co-creating a new and reparative relationship, or am I being drawn into a familiar but problematic interaction sequence that is reenacting for this client?
~ Edward Teyber
There are, in fact, no more important communications between one human being and another than those expressed emotionally, and no information more vital for constructing and reconstructing working models of the self and other than information about how each feels towards the other...it is the emotional communication between a patient and his therapist that play the crucial part. John Bowlby
~ Edward Teyber
A short story In a shop, a smiling female worker to a customer: Can I help you? The male customer smiled, and said, yes, of course, but in what way?
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Any system itself is nothing since your mentality and behaviour is that system, which reflects on society.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Call establishes relations
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Each one consciously or unconsciously; however, tries to use and benefit from others, for its interests, whether in a friendly way or trickery route of tricks.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Even though I write for myself; however, I live and breathe, within the public; therefore, escape from it, may fail since as I'm also a part of that
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Everyone visits with each other for its purpose.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
One cannot always consider, Tit for Tat, in an ugly and antagonistic sense since mutual Sex and Kissing, in whatever way, outline Tit for Tat automatically as well; however, in a sweet notion.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
One pays nothing for the idiocy of one else; however, idiot pays its respect, whether consciously or unconsciously.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Such conversation establishes nothing that fails to accomplish the fulfillment of actuality as its context.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Two sentences story Someone shouted angrily; go to the hell I asked politely; tell me the way
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Allen Ginsberg asked me to sign his book. I must've stood there for five minutes drawing a complete blank. Hi Allen, from one howl to another. Dear Allen I'm glad you think I'm a poet. Love, Eileen. I'm the only woman you like, right Allen? Only the craziest thoughts passed through my mind. Finally he started getting embarrassed. Just sign it. Come by and write something better when you think of it. I scrawled something. I forget what it was.
~ Eileen Myles
Alex, seated on her left, was one of those men who acted like he"d been issued a certain number of words at birth and didn"t want to run out. It took a little effort to get him talking
~ Eileen Wilks
What was romance but a lovely bit of play between man and woman?
~ Eileen Wilks
She put her hand to her head and was about to plead a headache when she glanced at Barbra, who gave her a look that said, I wouldn't if I were you...
~ Elaine Coffman