Quotes About Interaction

He seemed about to speak; then, as if he could not give sufficient weight to the words while we walked, he stopped and faced me.

Maclintick did not answer. He removed the cork from a bottle, the slight 'pop' of its emergence appearing to em-body the material of a reply to his wife, at least all the reply he intended to give.

However, at that stage in the walk one of those curious changes took place in circumstances of mutual intercourse that might almost be compared, scientifically speaking, with the addition in the laboratory of one chemical to another, by which the whole nature of the experiment is altered: perhaps even an explosion brought about.

I addressed a remark to him which he acknowledged simply by closing and opening his eyes, making me feel that, the next time I spoke, I ought to make an attempt to find something a trifle less banal to say: though his smile at the same time absolved me from the slightest blame in falling so patently short of his accustomed standards.

though the matter of getting on well with young men in no circumstances presented serious difficulty to her.

He laughed a lot, and this would have been the moment to leave him, and go on our way. We should probably have escaped without further trouble if Templer—feeling no doubt that Stringham had been occupying too much of the stage—had not begun to shoot out radiations towards Le Bas, long and short, like an ocular Morse code, saying at the same time in his naturally rather harsh voice: 'I am afraid we very nearly jumped on you, sir.

The quality of your life is the quality of your communication.

Internal representation and physiology work together in a cybernetic loop.

self-effacing introvert. How do they get along? Terribly. They

Men and women ain't lumps of sugar. They don't melt because the water is sometimes warm.

Courtesty and cordiality are not only not the same, but they are incompatible. Why so? Courtesy is an effort, and cordiality is free.

She simply chose to have some one sitting with her to whom she could speak and make little cross-grained, sarcastic, and ill-natured remarks.

CHAPTER LVI 'NOW WHAT HAVE YOU GOT TO SAY?

Each lady was disposed to get as much and to give as little as possible —

I am not sure of that. She has no conversation, you see; not a word. She has been sitting there with Lord Dumbello at her elbow for the last hour, and yet she has hardly opened her mouth three times.

Perhaps it was necessary that races doomed to live on the same soil should give way to each other, and adopt each other's pursuits.

That specially personal question which had been asked he did not answer at all.

Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.

I'm not just ignoring you, I'm waiting to see if you'll put in the effort to talk to me.

Our first presupposition must be that in nature nothing acts on, or is acted on by, any other thing at random, nor may anything come from anything else, unless we mean that it does so in virtue of a concomitant attribute.

cualquier manera de amistad es vivir en conversación y compañía

A pristine landscape was perfection itself; it was only when you added people that everything changed.

The public is a great actuality, like war. If you are a creative and creating artist, you cannot ignore it, though it can ignore you.

Ob?utek sramu potrebuje druge ljudi.