Quotes About Interaction

On how important curatorial mobility is: You must move, and you must talk (but not too much), and you definitely must listen. - Francesco Bonami

For two personalities to meet is like mixing two chemical substances: if there is any combination at all, both are transformed.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait.

Conditional rejections are not rejections - they are discussions.

You never do anything about him. You talk to him and then you leave." —Nicole Brown Simpson to police

It's important to clarify that forced teaming, too many details, charm, niceness, typecasting and loan sharking are all in daily use by people who have no sinister intent. You might have already recognized several of these strategies as those commonly used by men who want little more than an opportunity to engage a woman in conversation.

As parent and child advocate Anna McDonnell says, "To have a child is to have the chance to revisit your own childhood and self, and sometimes to make changes that have been needed for a long while." Trained for decades to interact with men in ways that serve the patriarchy, the new mother must answer to no man if doing so might place her or her child at risk.

When you try to manage or reason with such a person, you find that he is not reacting to what you say but rather to what he expects you to say; he is reacting to his script.

Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait.

We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait. People seeking to control others almost always present the image of a nice person in the beginning. Like rapport-building, charm and the deceptive smile, unsolicited niceness often has a discoverable motive.

We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait. People seeking to control others almost always present the image of a nice person in the beginning.

You talked to me, but you didn't. I could see you having these two-sided conversations. The things you wanted to say to me. And the words that actually came out.

It seems abstract when you're dealing with people online, but they are still people, and some of them are not nice people, not the kind you ever want to be in a room with." Sometimes you don't even need to be in the same room for the damage to be done.

Maybe making friends is a specific skill, and I missed the lesson.

When you watch, you are a spectator, but when you read, you're a participant.

You make a habit of talking to statues?" "Yes. And pigeons. Now, are you going to ask?

My public persona led to the company reaching out. That's the relationship that you have to build. - Arun Gupta

Son, heed my instruction, and apply thyself to know women; let thine eyes observe her when she is with another, for what she doeth with him, she will do with thee, also.

How can we, supercivilized out of almost all real emotion, develop the potential charm of this first glimpse of a new personality ?

She shot me a sugar-coated smile. I matched it calorie for calorie.

William: What's your nickname? Maddox: I do not have one. William" I'm happy to give you one. Captain Ass. What do you think? Maddox: I can leave. William: New nickname: Big Baby. Anyway, let's continue...

For gods' sake, Strider," Torin snapped. "Open your mouth and form some words. While you're at it, stop staring at the angel like he's a tasty treat.

Can I stay with the other angel, then? The blond." Thane? "Why?" he demanded. "Don't take this the wrong way, but I like him better than I like you." There was a right way to take that statement? Honesty was to be commended, and yet Zacharel suddenly battled an inexplicable need to shake her. "You cannot know who you like better. You only spent a few seconds in his company." "Sometimes a few seconds is all it takes." -Annabelle and Zacharel