Quotes About Interaction

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

I want her to look at me and smile just to show that she knows that I know that she knows

and they purr and ooh to my purr

feelings result from how we choose to receive what others say and do, as well as from our particular needs and expectations in that moment.

Choosing to request rather than demand does not mean we give up when someone says no to our request. It does mean that we don't engage in persuasion until we have empathized with what's preventing the other person from saying yes.

All other things being equal, your people skills (or lack of them) become more pronounced the higher up you go. In fact, even when all other things are not equal, your people skills often make the difference in how high you go.

The only time people actually see that you're not listening to them is when you're displaying extreme impatience. You want them to hurry up and get to the point. People notice that. And they rarely think better of you for it. You may as well be shouting, "Next!" at them.

Frances Hesselbine knows that listening is a two-part maneuver. There's the part where we actually listen. And there's the part where we speak. Speaking establishes how we are perceived as a listener. What we say is proof of how well we listen. They are two sides of the same coin.

Never wrestle with a pig—because you both get dirty but the pig loves it

Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally.

There is a basic principle that distinguishes a hot medium like radio from a cool one like the telephone, or a hot medium like the movie from a cool one like TV…. Hot media are… low in participation, and cool media are high in participation or completion by the audience.

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.

Jane, this young man is Jacob, my oldest son. It's no secret that a headmistress's biggest challenge is her family. Jacob, say hello to Jane." "Hello to Jane," he parroted, pulling out the pockets of his shorts in a silly curtsey. I couldn't decide if it was the dumbest thing I'd ever seen, or the funniest, so I stared back at him.

You know, talking to you is as satisfying as smashing my fingers with a hammer.

Tengo un alumno psicoterapeuta. Nunca, nunca, le miro directamente a los ojos. Bajo ningún concepto. Creo que le voy a suspender.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.

murderbot + actual human = awkwardness.

It was a low-stress group, they didn't argue much or antagonize each other for fun, and were fairly restful to be around, as long as they didn't try to talk or interact with me in any way.

Miki said, "That's not good." See, that? That is just annoying. That contributed nothing to the conversation and was just a pointless vocalization to make the humans comfortable.

Humans touch stuff all the time, I wish they wouldn't.

Now she was talking to me like I was a hysterical human. Worse, I was acting like a hysterical human.

After spending my entire existence having to gently suggest to humans that they not do things that would probably get them killed, it was nice to be able to tell them in so many words to not be so fucking stupid. But I didn't regret doing it.)