Quotes About Interaction

He liked playing his music for her. She listened. When he played her something that sucked, she said so. Well, in a nice way, Theo thought. That kind of thing told him she was paying attention, real attention. Their mother never had. To much of anything. I'm not good with the word part. I just like doing the melody.

Yes. Theo, being a man of few words, just told me it was cool.

They inhabit the earth, live among people. Lots of politics and protocol." Dana sat on the floor. "Anything

where two men played pool and a woman sat at a

lashes at him. "I never would have guessed." His lips twitched before he lifted the bottle to them. "Nothing personal." "Of course not. I don't like rude, arrogant men. That's nothing personal

caught him grinning at her. "Why do you purposely aggravate

It is the thesis of this book that society can only be understood through a study of the messages and the communication facilities which belong to it; and that in the future development of these messages and communication facilities, messages between man and machines, between machines and man, and between machine and machine, are destined to play an ever-increasing part.

For any machine subject to a varied external environment to act effectively it is necessary that information concerning the results of its own action be furnished to it as part of the information on which it must continue to act.

All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92)

Without a soundtrack, human interaction is meaningless… I never have any idea how other people feel; they always appear fine to me. But if somebody had pointedly played Pat Benatar's "Love is a Battlefield" that night, I'm sure I could have constructed some empathy.

Here, of course, lies the biggest difference between a successful interviewer and an unsuccessful one: the successful one makes the interviewee feel as though he or she is interested in the answers. The unsuccessful interviewer—and I have sat in or listened to enough interviews to know, unfortunately, and disappointingly, how common they are—does not.

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.

You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.

This is passive-aggression in action.

I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.

Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy.

People will listen to you only when they know you're dying, otherwise they're just waiting for their turn to talk.

You're a different human being to everybody you meet.

Ideally, you should be combining gesture, action, and expression with your dialogue.

You have to talk, otherwise your head turns into a cemetery.

The way to make most women break eye contact is to run your tongue around your lips. The ones who dont look away, for serious, bingo.

We use criticism as a fake participation.

The mentalis, the corrugator, all those little muscles of the face, those are the first things you learn in art school anatomy. After that, you can tell a fake smile because the risorius and platysma muscles pull the lower lip down and out, squaring it and exposing the lower teeth. Just for the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.

Everyone should use three types of communication. Three parts description. Two parts instruction. One part onomatopoeia. Mix to taste.