Quotes About Interaction

As any speaker will tell you, when you address a large number of people from a stage, you try to make eye contact with people in the audience to communicate that you're accessible and interested in them.

The best meeting I ever went to was a meeting in France where the talk slots were 60 minutes long, but you were told to prepare a five-minute talk. It was absolutely great because the entire talk was a conversation between the speaker and the audience.

We can't avoid that our daily and intimate manner of speaking is sometimes rough.

I think you've got to like people. There are MPs who are either painfully shy or who don't like public speaking or don't socialise very well, and you just think this must be the worst job in the world for them.

I love presentations more than fashion shows. I love speaking to people and walking them through the collection.

No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.

We know that our cells are speaking to each other.

I know that speaking with parties, which I do, but not very often, is seen by many as a 'contamination.'

This is Red Barber speaking. Let me say hello to you all.

I just don't have that natural instinct to be able to let my guard down and start speaking to people. I never have - I've always been a bit socially awkward, even with people I've known for a long time.

I remember nearly having a fit of the giggles during the reading because dear Daniel was SO respectful and serious and I was finding the whole situation funny because I was speaking to his profile.

Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!

Metaphorically speaking, it's easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.

Try to never say 'yes' on the phone; instead, say, 'I'll get back to you.' When you're actually speaking to someone, the desire to be accommodating is very strong, and can lead you to say 'yes' without enough consideration.

I developed a definition - which I think becomes less and less accurate as poetry moves into the world - that poetry was a way of speaking to the world, but fiction was a way to get the world to speak to me.

It's quite funny because I always talk to baby through Susie's belly, and every time I start speaking, I just get kicked in the face.

Every player in every team speaks to each other in order to improve the quality on the pitch - that communication is necessary.

When someone speaks to an introvert, her brain responds with a high level of activity. It is as if several lights start flashing on a control panel.

The first person a customer speaks with has the greatest impact on that customer's impression of Safeway.

There is no point having team meetings where no one speaks because you don't learn anything.

The routines of social intercourse in established settings allow us to deal with anticipated others without special attention or thought.

Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level.

Through our evolution, we're so specialized for social interaction. So, if you can really design robots that can interact with people, in this very natural, interpersonal way, I think that would be great. You wouldn't have to have people read manuals, in order to operate them.