Quotes About Interaction

of the time and listen eighty percent of the time, and that twenty percent ought to be questions to get the customer talking more.

No mind is complete by itself. It needs contact and association with other minds to grow and expand.

If you talk more than you listen, you not only deprive yourself of many opportunities to accumulate useful knowledge, but you also disclose your PLANS and PURPOSES to people who will take great delight in defeating you, because they envy you.

Remember, also, that every time you open your mouth in the presence of a person who has an abundance of knowledge, you display to that person, your exact stock of knowledge, or your LACK of it! Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.

He follows the habit of listening much and talking only when he has something to say that may benefit himself or others.

Remember, also, that every time you open your mouth in the presence of a person who has an abun­dance of knowledge, you display to that person, your exact stock of knowledge, or your LACK of it!

You will write better letters, you will converse better, you will enjoy social intercourse better if you read helpful reading matter from books and read newspapers very sparingly.

When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.

Start by being nice to every person you meet. But if someone tries to exercise power over you, exercise power over him.

Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health

we are not made to view things as independent from each other. When viewing two events A and B, it is hard not to assume that A causes B, B causes A, or both cause each other. Our bias is immediately to establish a causal link.

We are social animals; hell is other people.

cualquier cosa atrapada en la planificación tiende a fracasar, precisamente, a causa de estos atributos: es un mito que la planificación ayude a las grandes empresas porque, como hemos visto, el mundo es demasiado aleatorio e imprevisible para basar una política en la visibilidad del futuro. Lo que sobrevive surge de la interacción entre la adaptabilidad y algunas condiciones del entorno.

I discovered that it is much more effective to act like a nice guy and be "reasonable

1) how a collection of units doesn't behave like a sum of units

they think in terms of actions, never interactions.

The interactions matter more than the nature of the units.

é uma grande lenda acreditar que o planejamento ajuda as corporações: com efeito, vimos que o mundo é aleatório e imprevisível demais para que uma política seja baseada na visibilidade do futuro. O que sobrevive vem da interação entre alguma aptidão e as condições ambientais.

It is much easier to signal self-confidence if you are exceedingly polite and friendly; you can control people without having to offend their sensitivity.

El dar cuerda a alguien se decía en nuestra casa «dar cordel». Gino, efectivamente, daba poco cordel, porque siempre estaba leyendo, y cuando se le dirigía la palabra respondía con monosílabos y sin levantar la cabeza del libro.

All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibility-- that is, the experience of being seen and understood.

I send out signals and behave in ways that increase the likelihood that others will respond appropriately.

You speak, my friend, with a strange earnestness, said old Roger Chillingworth, smiling at him.

Es de gran importancia para la salud moral e intelectual de un hombre tener por compañeros otros hombres distintos a él, que no se interesen por sus ocupaciones, y que para conocer sus capacidades y saber en qué círculos se mueven le sea preciso salirse de sí mismo.