Quotes About Interaction

Talking isn't hard," she whispered to herself. "You've been doing it since you were two. You know how to do this.

The text we read is, in this view, an autopoietic event with which we interact and to which we make our own contributions. Every textual event is an emergence imbedded in and comprising a set of complex histories, some of which we each partially realize when we participate in those textual histories.

Joseph Pine wrote that today's economy is an experience economy, meaning that customers want more than a good product or service; they want to enjoy the experience of using a product or service, which begins with their first interaction with a company. So if, in spite of all your customer-service training and customer-facing procedures, policies, and scripts, customers aren't feeling the love, you're in trouble. Love? Yes.

We resent being talked to. We'd rather be talked with.

The idea I want you to embrace is that our relationships thrive, flatline, or fail, gradually then suddenly—one conversation at a time.

Stop talking about inclusion and engagement and start including and engaging in every conversation, every meeting.

Our work, our relationships, and our lives succeed or fail one conversation at a time.

We resent being talked to. We'd rather be talked with. So will all of the experts and the terminally self-absorbed please leave the room and close the door behind you? Thanks.

While no single conversation is guaranteed to change the trajectory of a relationship, any single conversation can.

Yes, the conversation is the relationship. One conversation at a time, you are building, destroying, or flatlining your relationships.

I don't care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces 'intelligence.

It's not 'natural' to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little—have few verbal means. Eloquence—thinking in words—is a byproduct of solitude, deracination, a heightened painful individuality.

I like watching people, but I don't like talking to them, dealing with them, pleasing them, or offending them.

He stopped working and smiled at her. "What are you thinking that makes you look at me so?" "I'm thinking I'd best do something about you soon." "Are you open to suggestions?" Setting aside an iron chisel, he brushed her cheek. The glove glided, hot and rough, on her skin. She pushed his hand aside. "Not of that sort.

Often, the most important part of a conversation was the waiting.

What's it going to take to shut you up? she asked. He spread his arms, palms out, and surrendered. Give me something else to do with my mouth.

I've never understood tourism. Where is the value in standing by and watching others live their lives?

any cat he spoke to would stay quite still with an expression of faint surprise on its face as if it had never heard such good sense in all its life nor ever expected to again.

He smiles but rarely and watches other men to see when they laugh and then does the same.

the idea that the Ancients had a different way of relating to the world, that they experienced it as something that interacted with them. When they observed the world, the world observed them back.

Mr. Norrell gazed at Strange with an odd expression upon his face as though he would have been glad of a little conversation with him, but had not the least idea how to begin.

And being a man – and a clever one – and forty-two years old, he naturally had a great deal of information and a great many opinions upon almost every subject you care to mention, which he was eager to communicate to a lovely woman of nineteen – all of which, he thought, she could not fail but to find quite enthralling.

Strange," said Henry Woodhope, "where did you get this nonsense?" "From the man under the hedge. Henry, you do not listen." "And he seemed honest, did he?" "Honest? No, not particularly. He seemed, I would say, cold. Yes, 'cold' is a good word to describe him and 'hungry' another.

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.