Quotes About Interaction

BaÅŸka kültürlerden âdet alma bir olgudur; ama al?nan, sebeplerin tamam?n? beraberinde getirmez. Ä°thal edilen al??kanl?k özümsenmez, daha ziyade katalizör rolü oynar; yani sadece varl???yla, ikinci ortamda olas? hâlde zaten mevcut olan benzer bir al??kanl???n tezahürüne yol açar.

Alas, it is an illusion to suppose that the invasion of one element disencumbers another.

You are reminded of a conversation you had recently, comparing the merits of sentences constructed implicitly with "yes, and" rather than "yes, but.

Words work as release--well-oiled doors opening and closing between intention, gesture.

The girl is Catholic with waist-length brown hair. You can't remember her name: Mary? Catherine? You never really speak except for the time she makes her request and later when she tells you you smell good and have features more like a white person. You assume she thinks she is thanking you for letting her cheat and feels better cheating from an almost white person.

You don't speak unless you are spoken to and your body speaks to the space you fill and you keep trying to fill it except the space belongs to the body of the man next to you, not to you.

A friend argues that Americans battle between the "historical self" and the "self self." By this she means you mostly interact as friends with mutual interest and, for the most part, compatible personalities; however, sometimes your historical selves, her white self and your black self, or your white self and her black self, arrive with the full force of your American positioning.

If I'm signing autographs and I see one hundred people in a line I've got to remind myself, "That person is one one-hundredth of my day, but to them I'm their day." You know what I mean? Unless they meet J.Lo later on.

When you are communicating with new people you do not have to know their names — after all, you've just met.

What do you want from me? Revenge? Sorry—we're all out of revenge today!

When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.

Computers deliver an abundance of symbols yet offer an impoverishment of experience. Do our children need to see more icons, corporate logos, and glitzy fonts... or do they need more time climbing, running, and figuring out how to get along with each other?

Body language is good enough to express yourself.

Many people are misquoted not by the language that they speak, but by the language of their behaviors that protrude their personalities.

The best choice you can make for yourself is to socialize with lesser evil.

There are many jobs in the world that require too much walking and talking, not listening. You can do the walking by just talking. But not talking while walking. Listening is bound somewhere.

Many intellectuals in the social sciences and humanities do not concede that Earth scientists have anything to say that could impinge on their understanding of the world, because the "world" consists only of humans engaging with humans, with nature no more than a passive backdrop to draw on as we please.

Outside of being home with my family, I prefer a crowd.

The human mind, or spirit, extends outside the human body and interacts with the outside material world.

Encounters with the living always drained him more than those with the dead.

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

Where there's a ventriloquist, there's a dummy.

The faceless silhouettes seemed to look at each other, as if wishing they could resolve the situation between themselves, without having to trouble their owners.