Quotes About Interaction

I don't necessarily agree that all animals are unpredictable. The more you know about an animal, the more you can work with it safely.

I am aloof by nature. I mind my own business. I'm good with everyone, and I get along fine with people. But work is work, and friendship is friendship. I never mix the two.

Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations.

There's what is on screen and then for us, it's if you get along with the people and enjoy showing up at work.

If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.

I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.

Sometimes you talk to people who really don't know anything about your work, and what can you say?

Respond to others about your work with equanimity.

One of the things I find most exciting is talking with people who are working with my work. Who are using it in some way with their life to address everyday politics of meaning.

How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?

The serpent is helpless unless he finds an apple to work with.

I guess I work well with others I handle younger actors well.

Exchange is creation.

When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.

I think it's more important to show your work to the public.

In storytelling, the audience actually wants to work for their meal, they just don't want to know that they're doing it.

I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.

I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?

I chop and change between what is called 'work' and what is called 'recreation.' There are no discontinuities in my day. I only play tennis with people I find interesting.

Ever try to have a conversation with someone on drugs? It just doesn't work.

I find that it's nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else's feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself.

I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.

When you share work, and you have the opportunity of seeing people you like doing what they do best, and you also interchange socially with them, it's very addictive.

I'd been doing projects outdoors for the public. I made pigeons eat geometry by putting bread out in rhomboids and triangles. I don't know if this activity made sense, but the work was available.