Quotes About Interaction

People take things differently. What one person would consider a helpful inquiry another might take as an aggressive criticism.

Everybody has said, 'I want push-back from you if you see something I don't,' " said Rosenthal. That made a difference. So did offering thanks for constructive criticism.

people realized that excessive politeness was hindering the critical examination of views, so they made special efforts to assure others that criticism was welcome. "Everybody has said, 'I want push-back from you if you see something I don't,' " said Rosenthal. That made a difference. So did offering thanks for constructive criticism. Gradually, the dancing around diminished.

Levine found that in general, the cities with the fastest pace of life were the least helpful.

depends on all of the people who use the language.

Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear enough. Uncertainty, the ultimate evil that modern law seeks to eradicate, generally fosters cooperation, not the opposite.

And wit only sounds like wit when there's someone around to appreciate it.

She ordered a coffee, and I ordered something I had no interest in drinking, so long as she was around.

The research revealed that mobile phones divert people's attention away from their current environments. It also discovered that the feeling of being able to connect to a wider network often inhibits people's abilities to be empathetic to others nearby. Therefore

debate" thus takes place among very few members. Most speeches are delivered from prepared notes and often have little

The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you.

To summarize: organizations are technical instruments, designed as means to definite goals. They are judged on engineering premises; they are expendable. Institutions, whether conceived as groups or practices, may be partly engineered, but they have also a "natural" dimension. They {22} are products of interaction and adaptation; they become the receptacles of group idealism; they are less readily expendable.

Rules apply to foremen and machinists, to clerks, sergeants, and vice-presidents, yet no durable organization is able to hold human experience to these formally defined roles. In actual practice, men tend to interact as many-faceted persons, adjusting to the daily round in ways that spill over the neat boundaries set by their assigned roles.

As the most socially accepted means of touching, a handshake is one of the main ways we exchange energy with others.

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

I smile when he tells me the story. It's also the first time I've smiled at him. He smiles back at me. It seems as intimate to me, as magnetic, as skin against skin.

While the credits roll he says: That scene with the chain saw was great, wasn't it? I look at him and joke: Yeah, I almost grabbed you at that moment. He smiles back at me and I receive his smile like a gift. There weren't many times Thomas smiled at me like that. It wasn't his way.

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in the closet.

Grahhhhh." I looked up at LaForce. Did he just, Grahhhhh, at me?

One of the things I like about big cities is the way people of different races and religions get to know one another. There's so much we all need to learn. If we only talk to our own kind of people , how can we learn enough in time to learn to live safely in the sort of world we have today?

Contemporary adult women, in urban public places, also behave in physically aggressive ways. Like men, women sometimes push and shove each other. However, while doing so, unlike men, women tend not to make eye contact with each other.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

The Three Cs, I told myself. When you're not Comfortable with it, it's not a Compliment, it's Creepy.

Fra Leo e Thomas è ormai sorta, e incomincia a crescere di minuto in minuto, una energia che trae forza solo da sé stessa, da quei contatti fintamente causali, da quegli sfioramenti leggeri, da quegli sguardi muti. Non si sono ancora parlati. Le parole non sono contemplate in questo momento per entrambi primordiale, arcaico, in cui la vita chiama la vita attraverso la più profonda energia della specie.