Quotes About Interaction

We want to pick big. Infinity is our friend. Infinity is safe. Infinity gives us a place to hide. So, I want to encourage people instead to look for the small. To be on one medium in a place where people can find you. To have one sort of interaction with one tribe, with one group where you don't have a lot of lifeboats.

People are nicer than they look, but you have to go first. This made me think of a line from fictional character Raylan Givens in the TV series Justified: "If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole." I will often write "GO FIRST" in my morning journal as a daily prompt.

4. Si respondes, no te disculpes en exceso.

If you spend 2 hours a day without an electronic device, looking your kid in the eye, talking to them and solving interesting problems, you will raise a different kid than someone who doesn't do that.

Practica el juego de «yo primero» GABBY: «Siempre me digo que yo seré la primera… Eso significa que si voy a pagar en una tienda, yo saludaré primero. Si me cruzo con alguien y hay contacto visual, yo seré la primera en sonreír. [Ojalá] la gente probara a hacer eso un poquito en su día a día: sé el primero, porque (no siempre, pero la mayoría de las veces) te beneficiará.

Life is a full-contact sport, especially on the Internet. If you're going to step into the arena, bloody noses and a lot of scrapes are par for the course.

I do what I always do: find a personal e-mail if possible, often through their little-known personal blogs, send a two- to three-paragraph e-mail which explains that I am familiar with their work, and ask one simple-to-answer but thought-provoking question in that e-mail related to their work or life philosophies. The goal is to start a dialogue so they take the time to answer future e-mails—not to ask for help. That can only come after at least three or four genuine e-mail exchanges.

4—If you respond, don't over-apologize.

If you ever see Jimmy Fallon on the street, don't say, 'I love The Tonight Show!' Just say something like: 'What do you think of kiwi?' and he won't be able to not be like, 'I love kiwi!

Así que quiero animar a la gente a que, en lugar de eso, aspire a lo pequeño. Que te sitúes en un punto medio, allí donde la gente pueda encontrarte. Que tengas algún tipo de interacción con una tribu, con un grupo donde no tengas un montón de botes salvavidas.»

Sometimes, the clues that you put outwardly are too subtle to be heard, or someone is just talking louder than you.

If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole." I

If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.

If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.

Creo que el único modo de que prospere el cristianismo consiste en mantener viva una cultura cristiana vigorosa, segura de sí y llena de vida, pero en interacción dinámica con la cultura contemporánea.

Your everyday communication influences the shape, quality, and direction of your relationships.

Every day your words give your relationships their tone. Every day you tell people what you think of them, what you want from them, and what you would like to enjoy with them.

In this chapter we invite you to listen to your words and evaluate the way they shape your relationships.

However, problems arose when we, as two leaders who had known each other only from a safe distance, began working together in the same room!

You see, this is what you always do. I come to you and you turn the table on me. You are so good at making other people feel guilty for your failures!

Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do.

Make eye contact and small talk. This is not just polite. It is part of being a citizen and a responsible member of society. It is also a way to stay in touch with your surroundings, break down social barriers, and understand whom you should and should not trust. If we enter a culture of denunciation, you will want to know the psychological landscape of your daily life.

Make eye contact and small talk.

In the politics of the every day, our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much.