Quotes About Interaction

Sullivan distinguished between fear and anxiety. If a loud noise occurs, if hunger is unaddressed, if tensions of any sort increase, the baby becomes afraid. Fear actually operates as an integrating tendency; as it is expressed in crying and agitation, it draws the caregiver into an interaction that will soothe the baby and address the problem. Anxiety, in contrast, has no focus and does not arise from increasing tension in the baby herself. Anxiety is picked up from other people.

You only get one chance to make a positive first impression — be absolutely sure to take it!

Every attitude we assume, ever word we utter, and every act we undertake establishes us in relation to others.

Life gets boring with only humans to talk to.

Combat is an interaction between human organisations. It is adversarial, highly dynamic, complex and lethal. It is grounded in individual and collective human behaviour, and conducted between organisations that are themselves complex. It is not determined, hence uncertain, and evolutionary. Critically, and to an extent in a way which we currently overlook, combat is fundamentally a human activity.12

find creative ways to engage our customers. That's the key word: engage.

Why are you crying?" shivered the otter. "Because I am cold!" shouted the gnome. "Then why are you shouting?" chattered the otter. "Because," yelled the gnome, "when I shout it gets part of the cold from the inside out.

Language is best taught when it is being used to transmit messages, not when it is explicitly taught for conscious learning.

It's odd with people who are shy: they never quite learn how to speak, to feel at home with words in their mouths.

Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.

We can begin to directly interact with the meanings that flow into us from the world every minute of every day of our lives. Those meanings are directly related to what is happening in the world around us, in the communication between plants, the intelligence of animals, the functioning of Gaia.

Such self-organization always begins the same way, or as researchers Scott Camazine et al. put it, "At a critical density a pattern arises within the system.

They are not disease organisms bent on our destruction. They are something else entirely, the foundation of all life on this planet. As Margulis makes plain, "Bacteria are not really individuals so much as part of a single global superorganism."13 And that superorganism is in actuality an incredibly large community of highly intelligent interactive subparts, just as our white blood cells are of us (or as we, as individuals, are of the human communities in which we live).

human evolution has been determined mainly by social competition.29

To encourage a good dialogue, it is best to treat dream figures as equals.

See how the passengers all turn and talk to one another now as they get nearer and nearer to the little town.

The first job of a leader—at work or at home—is to inspire trust. It's to bring out the best in people by entrusting them with meaningful stewardships, and to create an environment in which high-trust interaction inspires creativity and possibility.

How to be one up—how to make the other man feel that something has gone wrong, however slightly.

A good general attack can be made by talking to your opponent about his own job, in the character of the kind of man who always tries to know more about your own profession than you know yourself.

Concurrent time is a state of time where all the happenings occur at the same time. The creations of the present are influenced by both the past and the future actions and all the three interact where even a future event can change what can happen in the present.

Tolstoy's characters seem to come forward to meet you, very conscious of the impression they are making on one another and on the reader.

I put air quotes around the word ethical. I regretted doing that. Instantly. I think that was what provoked him.

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

I think we should use some other greeting. Something like 'what the fuck?" "Okay," I said, "What the fuck?" "Exactly. Right on. I love you.