Quotes About Interaction

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

A little flattery makes people feel good about themselves. When you notice someone looking great, give them a compliment.

Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

Emotions are contagious. We've all known it experientially. You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel good. When you have a rude clerk in a store, you walk away feeling bad.

The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk a lot. Thus, good schmoozer's are good listeners, not good talkers.

Good listeners are perceived as good conversationalists.

I like being around people who are good conversationalists.

Be yourself' is good advice, unless you notice that people are always excusing themselves and moving away from you. In that case, try being someone else!

On a day when you're tired, it's important to just say good morning to everyone so they're kind of aware that it's gonna be a good day. Jamie Lee Curtis told me that.

My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.

Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.

Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.

Mingle often with good people to keep your soul nourished.

I don't go out with strangers," I said. "Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five.

I think most people come toward things assuming everybody is going to be a good person. When you have an interaction where it doesn't go that way, it's very problematic and interesting and weird.

I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends.

Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots.

Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.

I am very good at groveling.

Twitter is so stupid. I mean, it sucks! It's not a good way to communicate and it's really difficult to use it for any functional thing.

Jared sidled up. He was not very good at sidling; he was more of a loomer.

Some characters are like some bodies in chemistry; very good, perhaps, in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with each other.

No good ever came from not talking.