Quotes About Interaction

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

There are always more people who prefer to speak than to listen.

Communication always makes demands. It always demands that the recipient become somebody, do something, believe something. It always appeals to motivation.

We are responsible for what we hear other people say and for how we act.

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

I never have to worry about another person's response, only how I react to what they say.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

What worries me is that now, communication is virtual.

All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.

Public Relations is the management of communication between an organization and its publics.

One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing.

The need to communicate effectively with your customers will come up again and again.

The hard part about SNL is, there's no real communication when you get there. It's not like people are mean to you, they just act like you're not there.

Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different.

You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?

It's ironic, but true, that in this age of electronic communications, personal interaction is becoming more important than ever.

Gestures and facial expressions do indeed communicate, as anyone can prove by turning off the sound on a television set and asking watchers to characterize the speakers from the picture alone.

It is easier to communicate with spirits than for one university department to communicate with another.

Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.

The quality of business communications has become poorer in recent years as people avoid phone calls and face-to-face meetings, I can only assume, in some misguided quest for efficiency.

Creating art alone doesn't seem to fill us up, in my opinion, until we begin to truly communicate with it.

People are self-absorbed. I think that the mass ability of communication now probably allows individuals to meet more self-absorbed individuals. It has certainly changed the way that people meet.

Talkers have always ruled. They will continue to rule. The smart thing is to join them.