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Quotes About Interaction

Whether they give or refuse women are glad to have been asked.
~ Ovid
Men say of women what pleases them! women do with men what pleases them.
~ De Segur
Communication works for those who work at it.
~ John Powell
Every time we interact with another person at work, we have a choice to make: do we try to claim as much value as we can, or contribute value without worrying about what we receive in return?
~ Adam Grant
First, you have to be visible in the community. You have to get out there and connect with people. It's not called net-sitting or net-eating. It's called networking. You have to work at it.
~ Ivan Misner
I always try to make work that activates the viewer to be a co-producer of our shared reality.
~ Olafur Eliasson
People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well.
~ Andy Hertzfeld
The most important knowledge teachers need to do good work is a knowledge of how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their teacher's actions.
~ Stephen Brookfield
It's the viewer that makes the work.
~ Marcel Duchamp
An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker - the other, what he is capable of giving to the work of art.
~ Arnold Schoenberg
I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world.
~ Kiki Smith
The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.
~ W. Edwards Deming
Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
The main thing we were made for is to work with others.
~ Marcus Aurelius
I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no matter how many people are present
~ Maya Lin
Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.
~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Usually, when we talk about creativity, it's about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.
~ Austin Kleon
There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
~ Anish Kapoor
I try to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so they feel open participation.
~ Jeff Koons
With any other celebrity, people come up and say, 'Hey, I really like your work.' But with my fans, when they see me, they don't even say hello. They just go, 'AWWWWWGHGHHHGHGHRRR!'
~ Sam Kinison
Hello?... No I'm sorry no Shaquita here. Well what number did you dial?.. No it's a nine not a seven... Well try it if it doest work call me back we'll figure this thing out.
~ Katt Williams
Everybody engaged in complex work needs colleagues. Just the discipline of having to put your thoughts in order with somebody else is a very useful thing."
~ Charlie Munger
More than any other factor, it is the people we have to deal with that determine the quality of our work lives.
~ David Maister
Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.
~ Barbara Kruger