Quotes About Interaction

Her telephone voice was brisk and without any tone at all.

I am getting better at smiling when people expect it.

Tell me about yourself, Miss Russell." I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat autobiography, but some slight air of polite inattention in his manner stopped me. Instead, I found myself grinning at him. "Why don't you tell me about myself, Mr. Holmes?

Who gives is positive; who receives is negative; still there remains an immense class of mere passives.

You all right? his eyes asked. I'm all right, hers answered.

Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.

De Waal concluded that rather than changing the social relationships, the fights tended to reflect the changes that had already taken place.

I shall prepare a face to meet the faces that I meet.

To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.

Children don't say, "I had a hard day at school today; can I talk to you about it?" They say, "Will you play with me?

If they don't think we will play, they may not even ask. They just go about their business, and we go about ours, and we all miss chance after chance to reconnect.

Getting on the floor also means joining in with play that we would rather ignore or eliminate.

Connie, have you been trying to call me?" No Archie. "Well, my phone has not been ringing all day, and I thought it might have been you.

A college lecture is a queer thing, for people not accustomed to it. The Professor isn't exactly dictating the lecture, and he isn't exactly talking, and the class are not exactly taking dictation and they're not exactly listening. It's a system they both have grown so used to that it's second nature.

In England, coffeehouses were dubbed penny-universities, because for the admission price of one cent, a person could sit and be edified all day long by scholars, merchants, travelers, community leaders, gossips, and poets.

Diggs lubricated her skepticism with diplomacy.

He was completely interested in humanizing technology.

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

When we make a measurement on a system, we disturb it, typically by forcing it to interact with a measuring instrument. So Rule 1 does not apply to measurements. This is true not only of measurements, but of any interaction between the system and outside forces. So is there anything special about measurements? Measurements are special because they are where probabilities enter quantum theory.

quantum state is only a representation of that knowledge? How does a system know a particular interaction has taken place with a detector, so that it should then, and only then, obey Rule 2? What happens if we combine the original system and the detector into a larger system? Does Rule 1 then apply to the whole system? These questions

A body at rest or in uniform motion remains in that state of rest or uniform motion unless it is disturbed by forces.

Yawn. String-on-a-stick. Fine. I'll come out and chase it to make you happy.

Don't flash an immediate smile when you greet someone, as though anyone who walked into your line of sight would be the beneficiary. Instead, look at the other person's face for a second. Pause. Soak in their persona. Then let a big, warm, responsive smile flood over your face and overflow into your eyes. It will engulf the recipient like a warm wave. The split-second delay convinces people your flooding smile is genuine and only for them.