Quotes About Interaction

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In-person interactions are especially important in the initial brainstorming of new ideas and the forging of personal bonds.

Later that year, a similar note left for her added, "If you don't mind, I'd like to come over this evening to read with you.

Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being

it folded and twisted, which would reveal how it interacted with other molecules.5

Let me speak to your boss I said. Six magic words that roil deep in the bowels of anymore collecting a paycheck on a biweekly basis. It's like winking at a leprechaun: he has to give up his pot of gold, and yet no one knows why.

Good behavior by each party begets good behavior in return.

If you can't communicate, it's like winking at a girl in the dark.

the glowing glass windows many of us carry now, where we make things amazing happen by pointing at it with our fingers like goddamn wizards.

Adam knew it was childish, but he rationalized it in this way: carelessly harming other people was a decent stand-in for baseline human interaction.

Julie always tried to stand beside me, or talk to me, or in some other way mortify me.

However, the nurturing person must be able to nurture and the person in need must be able to let go, to surrender, in order to be nurtured. In my observations of patients, their families, and of other people, this reciprocity is unusual in human interaction. It is not the child's job to nurture their parent, and when this happens repeatedly, it is a subtle form of child abuse or neglect.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.

I have observed that whenever you try to hit somebody, there is a tendency for them to try to hit you back.

Sometimes you have to show people your cards to keep them in the game.

sociologist Erving Goffman suggested that life is a series of performances in which we are all continually managing the impression we give other people.

The garden was not merely a biophilic intervention. It was a social machine.

the most important psychological effect of the city is the way in which it moderates our relationships with other people.

shaped people's behavior by inviting them to come together and to linger.

You cannot separate the social life of urban spaces from the velocity of the activities happening there.

The strangers we encounter on the web are abstractions, not a physical presence—we are interfacing with them, not interacting.

Instead of feeling sorry for the exceptionally able student who has no one to talk to, we need to worry about what happens when the exceptionally able students hang out only with one another.

the most lovable of exceptional American qualities (is) our tradition of insisting that we are part of the middle class, even if we aren't, and of interacting with our fellow citizens as if we were all middle class.