Quotes About Interaction

The most important thing in human relationship is conversation.but people don't talk anymore,they don't sit down to talk and listen.They go to theatre,the cinema,watch television,listen to the radio,read books but they almost never talk.(pg114)

But other people also 'invite' us to behave like victims, when they complain about the unfairness of life, for example, and ask us to agree, to offer advice, to participate. Be careful. When you join in that game you always end up losing.

When we're with other people and they say nothing, the situation becomes irritating.

The pure force of life are in communication with each other, independently of us, and then we cannot hide who we are.

there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

I kind of wish, even after I fired back at him, there was still an opportunity for him to have that conversation with me. Maybe if he had said 'This [porn] will skew the way you view women. It's not real. And it's not going to help you get a girl; it's only going to keep you from interacting with girls in a healthy manner', that might have made a difference for me. But my parents were to fearful to actually deal with any of it.

He that contemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her.

That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.

A woman at the rear of the room raised her hand. I was focused on the argument now and made a minor social error, which I quickly corrected. "The fat woman-overweight woman-at the back?"

I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

Talking with a Martian is like talking with an echo. You don't get argument but you don't get results.

To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.

Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.

The Duke of Edinburgh has perfected the art of saying hello and goodbye in the same handshake.

Every woman knows the art of saying no with the lips and yes with the rest

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.

Whatever art is, it is no longer something primarily to be looked at. Stared at, perhaps, but not primarily looked at