Quotes About Interaction

I learned a lot about how to be frigidly polite and still leave somebody feeling like they'd been spanked.

and Nightwitch was batting him back and forth between her paws in wide-eyed fascination. I didn't think she'd ever played with a ball that yelled at her before.

Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.

Kim was more than a little inclined to snarl at him, but in the past few days she had learned that snarling at Mairelon did little good. He simply smiled and corrected her grammar.

To a narrative therapist, there are few interactions between couples that are not influenced by patriarchy. If there is an abuse of power in a relationship, a narrative therapist would view the responsibility for the abuse of power as lying in the hands of the person abusing the power. A narrative approach would invite the abuser to Recognize the abuse as abuse. Position himself against it. Accept total responsibility for stopping it.

The abuser controls the interpersonal communication and, therefore, the interpersonal reality by refusing to discuss upsetting interactions. The abuser blames the partner for upsetting interactions, and the partner believes him and therefore thinks that they are her fault.

I must have intuitively known even then, though, that if you ask a certain type of guy about himself, it's as good as winding a wind-up toy.

He handed the phone to Armand and said

The more specific your questions the better. If you feel that you can't really continue the conversation without asking questions, you need to ask specific questions.

Instead of walling off a conversation and saying you'd rather talk about something else, you bring in a deeper and more comprehensive level of analysis. This highlights your intelligence, but it also highlights your emotional engagement.

Rule of Improv Comedy: Be as present and observant as possible so you can see where an interaction is coming from, and where it wants to go. If you were to analyze really successful improv comedians like Jim Carrey, you will notice that he have a great knack for being in the moment.

If you go to a networking event with the idea of seeking a job, that's an expectation that will creep into all of your conversations, whether you realize it or not. You're going to subconsciously nudge your interactions into specific directions that will probably disrupt the natural flow of how they would otherwise go—to your detriment. If you speak to that same person and just seek to connect, chances are a very different connection will form.

By keeping an eye out for hints that people leave for the reactions they want, you can increase the likelihood that your conversations will be longer, more emotionally engaging, and lead to where you want them to go.

strategically using your reactions, you can shift the direction to a middle ground that is more acceptable to both of you, and eventually to a topic that you want.

Chatter requires a very finely-tuned sense of empathy, conversational techniques, and cultivating a presence – it's not about just going down a checklist of topics. It also requires reading between the lines of what people say, examining body language, and noting patterns of human interaction to different types of stimuli.

Si alguien con quien interactúas responde a tus preguntas felizmente pero no toma un descanso para preguntar cómo estás, entonces ese alguien debe callarse un poco. Si ese alguien eres tú, tú eres quien debe callarse.

We live in such an alienated and busy culture that the simple act of genuinely smiling at somebody is quite rare on a day-to-day basis.

Two monologues do not make a dialogue." - Jeff Daly

Rule of Improv Comedy: Don't force others to answer broad questions because it puts a conversational burden on them and interrupts banter.

Improv comedy above all else teaches flow, and the ability to make something out of nothing – both of those things in pursuit of a common shared goal of a lasting interaction and deep connection with the people involved.

People are motivated by psychological, social, financial, even biological and evolutionary factors, all of which could interact with one another in interesting ways.

Players will often outright state their emotions and how they feel, and it's up to the other players to react to that accordingly in ways that advance an interaction. It's simple, but we don't often do this or catch this in daily conversation.

You can be the smoothest, funniest person in the room, but if you aren't interested and curious about your conversation partner, there simply won't be a connection. I've

Most people like to talk to people that are fun. When you break it down, there are only a few benefits that people receive from conversations, and fun and entertainment is a major one.