Quotes About Interaction

You need to talk about it. Explain it. Let people ask questions.

If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.

Training is a loop, a two-way communication in which an event at one end of the loop changes events at the other, exactly like a cybernetic feedback system; yet many psychologists treat their work as something they do to a subject, not with the subject.

Then, that memorably powerful look into my eyes told me something more: compared to dogs, wolves are grown-ups. He was not asking for help, head down, forehead wrinkled, as a dog might: "Is this right? What do you want?" Instead, head high, gaze level, he was assessing me, like a poker player: "Are you in or out?" Judging that I was in, he made his move; and we both won. (p.6)

The animal has discovered, in me, a new resource, like a new water hole or berry patch. Thus it takes a new and intense interest in what I do. That opens up huge opportunities for understanding. (p.13)

their eyes flicking all over each other.

Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.

if I could develop one new skill that would make a big difference in how most people communicate, it would be the skill of making a request.

I like people who listen. We're born with two ears, two eyes but just one mouth. This fellow uses them in the right ratio.

Sara studied him. "Is that a Chihuahua behind your back?" "No, I'm just happy to see you" Sara gave him a confused smile, and he reluctantly showed her Betty.

Most never received messages from solid-state entities, evil or otherwise (although talking to the furniture, overhead light bulbs, lava lamps, and computer screens is commonly reported, these "entities" do not usually answer back) and never experienced paranoid episodes lasting for more ...

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

Tip 3: Watch out for teasing.

that we be there to be spoken to than absent to be spoken about.

Strange that one man's actions could touch so many other people, like a single, thoughtless breath of wind coming in an open window and blowing the playing cards every which way.

Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it.

There, that's better. That should get him talking. But it doesn't. As more time

Call opened the door before she had time to knock. "You're only five minutes late," he said lightly. "For a woman, I consider that right on time." "Actually, for a woman, it's fifteen minutes early." He chuckled. "Come on in.

What's wrong with just talking? Isn't that why bars were invented? So you could talk to somebody over a drink—as opposed to sitting at home alone getting sloshed?

Psyche looked up eagerly. "Voice?" she said. "Is that you?

At the heart of systems thinking lie three deceptively simple concepts: stocks and flows, feedback loops, and delay. They sound straightforward enough, but the mind-boggling business begins when they start to interact. Out of their interplay emerge many of the surprising,

we WEIRD ones typically practise what is known as 'strong reciprocity': we are conditional cooperators (tending to cooperate so long as others do too) but also altruistic punishers (ready to punish defectors and free riders even if it costs us personally). And it is the combination of these two traits that leads to the success of large-scale cooperation in society.

A skilled kite surfer rides her surfboard across the rolling waves while catching the wind in her kite, and she must continually adjust—bending, dipping, and twisting her body—to maintain that dynamic interplay of the wind and the waves. That is just how GDP should come to move in the twenty-first century,

I studied his face, and as I did, I realized that he was studying me, our thoughts tangling in mid-air for a moment.