Quotes About Interaction

I define game theory as the study of how rational individuals make choices when the better choice among two possibilities, or the best choice among several possibilities, depends on the choices that others will make or are making.

let me remind you of the particular characteristics of all of these behavior systems that I am trying to focus on. It is that people are impinging on other people and adapting to other people. What people do affects what other people do.

You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.

Don't for God's sake speak as saint to sinner, but as you yourself to me myself - poor me!

No average man will molest a woman by day or night, at home or abroad, unless she invites him. Until she says by a look Come on he is always afraid to, and if you never say it, or look it, he never comes.

She might have looked her thanks to Gabriel on a minute scale, but she did not speak them.

A woman may be treated with a bitterness which is sweet to her, and with a rudeness which is not offensive.

An average woman is in this superior to an average man—that she never instigates, only responds.

Strange to say of a woman in full bloom and vigor, she always allowed her interlocutors to finish their statements before rejoining with hers.

Graham had stared through the bars for about five seconds when Lecter opened his eyes and said, "That's the same atrocious aftershave you wore in court." "I keep getting it for Christmas.

Jack Crawford heard the rhythm and syntax of his own speech in Graham's voice. He had heard Graham do that before, with other people. Often in intense conversation Graham took on the other person's speech patterns. At first, Crawford had thought he was doing it deliberately, that it was a gimmick to get the back-and-forth rhythm going. Later Crawford realized that Graham did it involuntarily, that sometimes he tried to stop and couldn't.

When surrounded by their peers, most men have two sets of reactions—the real ones and those designed for evaluation by their fellows.

Often in intense conversation Graham took on the other person's speech patterns.

One Washington axiom, proved more times than the Pythagorean theorem, states that in the presence of oxygen, one loud fart with an obvious culprit will cover many small emissions in the same room, provided they are nearly simultaneous.

You really must look at me when I'm talking to you," Kabakov said. "Are you ready to cooperate? Blink for yes. Die for no.

Give an inch, he'll take an ell.

Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!

Strangely fruitful intercourse this, between one body and another mind

Car lorsque les yeux parlent, ils tutoient, lors même que les lèvres n'ont pas encore prononcé un vous.

Pues cuando los ojos hablan tutean, aunque los labios no hayan pronunciado todavía un .

Jaki? dystyngowany l?k, ?e swymi pytaniami sprowokowa? zbyt wielk? poufa?o?? i dowie si? czego?, co go nic nie obchodzi, krzy?owa?a si? w nim z ju? rozbudzon? ciekawo?ci? i uwag?, z pragnieniem, by si? z tych ust dowiedzie? czego? wi?cej.

Nada hay más extraño ni más delicado que la relación de las personas que sólo se conocen de vista, que se encuentran y se observan cada día, a todas horas, y, no obstante, se ven obligadas, ya sea por convencionalismo social o por capricho propio, a fingir una indiferente extrañeza y a no intercambiar saludo ni palabra alguna.

Great though books may be, friends though they may be to us, they are no substitute for persons, they are only means of contact with great persons...