Quotes About Interaction

The thing was not to get to know any of them, if possible. Once you know your neighbours, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.

As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

Why did Americans smile so often? Was it out of politeness or because of a gay disposition?" Whatever it was, she, who had never been "spoiled with smiles," found it pleasant!

She was watching me out of the corner of her eye. She put a hand to her white hair. I said hi toots you got a match? Hepzibah Dodd smiled a faded smile. She picked up her copy of An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. By Adam Smith. She stood and grabbed my arm. She had a grip like a brand-new bear trap. Her voice was quavery. She said of course big boy. She said in my apartment.

The meaning of a particular action of the hand was understood only in terms of the positioning of the entire body, the facial expression, and the direction of the glance.

Undoubtedly Italians use hand gestures and body language more creatively and prolifically than other European cultures.

Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.

Greg is looking at me; he thinks I don't know it. I've been chopping onions at the kitchen counter for almost five minutes, and I can see his reflection – inside out, convex and stretched – in the chrome kettle we got as a wedding present. He's sitting at the kitchen table, checking me out.

It was like hearing customs from an undiscoverd race: what men thought was unimaginable....She wondered if all human activity were like this, everything, every gesture, every comment colored faintly by gender. Each side continually astonished, confused by the other's misperceptions. p 133

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

The question mark, used well, may be the most profoundly human form of punctuation. Unlike the other marks, the question mark—except perhaps when used in a rhetorical question—imagines the Other. It envisions communication not as assertive but as interactive, even conversational.

Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.

People recognize me, call me Ron, and ask me questions. It's really cool and weird as well.

In the West they say, 'Never talk to strangers.' In the East they say, 'Always talk to strangers.

Boys like it when you talk to them as if they were grown men—at least he always did when he was a kid—because they pretend that's what they are anyhow, grown-up men, and they do it for their entire lives.

Many people--whether they live in the heartland or on Fifth Avenue--like to think of New York City as so wild and extreme in its cultural fusion that it's an anomaly in the United States, almost a foreign entity. This book offers an alternative view: that beneath the level of myth and politics and high ideals, down where real people live and interact, Manhattan is where America began.

You're not mating with me, sunshine!

Dialogue is just two monologues clashing.

I look at her and ask, flat out, "What's up?" Girl talk, of course, for, Back off my man, biotch.

Who wanted to pass someone on the street and greet them only to be rewarded with a miserable sigh?

Whether writing for a text book, for e-learning, or for lecture notes for an instructor-led class, you can improve learning by thinking of yourself as a "learning host." A good host makes guests feel comfortable and engages them in the event.

That was one of the bad things about being able to read: people could nag you from a great distance.

Talking with this girl is like trying to catch fleas, you never know which way she was going to jump.

he yells, you run like the wind. That lad plays you like an old piano – and you know it.' 'But he's only four months old—' Edie nodded briskly.