Quotes About Interaction

Lacey was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized. Alone, she was self-contained, her tightly spinning magnetic energy oscillating around her. When in company, she had invisible tethers to anyone in the room: as they moved away, she pulled them in.

Sure, I've gotten some disbelieving stares when I've tried to explain this little habit of mine to, say, a bus seatmate. I've watched a guy adjust his posture, or get up and move back several rows, even if it meant he now sat next to someone else who was clearly on the verge of some other kind of insanity.

Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them. Steve Martin

I think communication is so firsbern.

Thinking like a Freak may sometimes sound like an exercise in using clever means to get exactly what you want, and there's nothing wrong with that. But if there is one thing we've learned from a lifetime of designing and analyzing incentives, the best way to get what you want is to treat other people with decency. Decency can push almost any interaction into the cooperative frame.

Decency can push almost any interaction into the cooperative frame.

An opponent who feels his argument is ignored isn't likely to engage with you at all.

Most hotbeds of innovation have similar physical spaces associated with them: the Homebrew Computing Club in Silicon Valley; Freud's Wednesday salon at 19 Berggasse; the eighteenth-century English coffeehouse. All these spaces were, in their own smaller-scale fashion, emergent platforms.

when we look back to the original innovation engine on earth, we find two essential properties. First, a capacity to make new connections with as many other elements as possible. And, second, a "randomizing" environment that encourages collisions between all the elements in the system.

Long after the children had dispersed, they avidly exchanged books and reading recommendations as if no book was truly read until all had read it.

sconser n. A person who looks around while talking to you to see if there's anyone more interesting about.

Rather, there is friction between the speaker's square peg and the listener's round hole, and that friction itself conveys information in a parallel stream.

People in a connected world are exposed to the stories of strangers through many channels, including face-to-face encounters, interviews in the media, and memoirs and autobiographical accounts.

I thrive off the company of others, I love being sociable.

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.

Every show, every audience is different, and I just love leaving the venue feeling like we all know each other a little bit better.

I love it when you talk that sh-t.

I love to meet the fans. I just get embarrassed with those who weep. I don't know what to do or what to say. It's a very embarrassing situation.

I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.

Live audiences love me because I'm singing and actually am able to f**k with people live over the mic.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, and that's the price of love.

But, people are recognizing me more. Sometimes fans just approach me on the street and say how much they love the show. It's great to get that kind of feedback.

I'm definitely a people person. I love socializing and being around people and having a good conversation.

Did i say something wrong?" "Well, in your defense, there is no right thing to say.