Quotes About Interaction

Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.

Communication is and should be hell fire and sparks as well as sweetness and light.

A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.

She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

Too much agreement kills a chat.

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

I drink to make other people interesting.

I find the more I drink the more interesting others become.

Now when I bore people at a party, they think it's their fault.

It is infinitely more useful for a child to hear a story told by a person than by computer. Because the greatest part of the learning experience lies not in the particular words of the story but in the involvement with the individual reading it.

Any man will usually get from other men what he is expecting from them. If he is looking for friendship, he will likely receive it. If his attitude is that of indifference, it will beget indifference. And if a man is looking for a fight, he will in all likelihood be accommodated in that.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable; a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.

Give an inch, he'll take an ell.

Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach, And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.

There is but one way for a president to deal with the Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it's really going to work, the relationship between the president and the Congress has got to be almost incestuous.

It's funny how your initial approach to a person can determine your feelings toward them, no matter what facts develop later on.

Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant -impossible socially, but full-scale. It's the knockings and batterings we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercourse from utter banality.

People treat you according to your energy or what you put out there, so what I put out there is very open. I'm not paranoid or scared, I'm open. That's how I treat people, with respect and speak truthfully.

I've never done a lot of collaborations. Truthfully, artists most of the time are so busy, they never get a chance to get in the studio and be personal with a record.

We try to connect with the audience as much as we can. We feel the energy from the audience, and it gives us so much joy and inspiration.

In my professional life I do not have to like everyone, but when I feel negative energy with someone I try and avoid that person.

Park Bo Gum has a very reserved personality. Becoming close with him was a struggle. Just trying to talk in informal speech took two hours.

You can't live in your own secluded world. If you're not on the Tube, on the bus doing normal things, how can you relate to people?