Quotes About Interaction

Smile at a stranger. See what happens.

You don't follow plots you negotiate them.

My penance for barely being present in the world, not the world between the pages of books, or the layered atmosphere of my own mind, but the world that is real to others

People pushed by force of habit, pushed for the pure pleasure of pushing, and they would go on pushing until you showed them you were willing to push back, at which point you would earn their respect.

El único acto íntimo entre dos extraños que todavía es posible, es el de la lectura

Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination.

As Uncle Victor had once told me long ago, a conversation is like having a catch with someone. A good partner tosses the ball directly into your glove, making it almost impossible for you to miss it; when he is on the receiving end, he catches everything sent his way, even the most errant and incompetent throws.

For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more than his surface to others.

Silence is not a rewarding response, no matter what it means.

jeu du regard,

La gente te importunaba por la fuerza de la costumbre,molestaba por el simple placer de molestar, y seguían pinchándote hasta que les demostrabas que tú también estabas dispuesto a fastidiarla, momento en el cual te ganabas su respeto.

Cuando a un hombre la vida le resulta tolerable sólo si permanece en la superficie de sí mismo, es natural que se sienta satisfecho obteniendo esa misma superficie de los demás

Here's how to freak out a baby: sit across from the baby, engage with him or her, and then suddenly become still. If this goes on for more than a few seconds, with you looking all corpselike, the baby will become upset.

Wie faßten wir uns an — an mit diesen Händen?

When customers are asked to define relationship in a business situation, they discuss things such as how a salesperson can bring value to their companies.

At the most basic level, this book shows you how to ask questions that will get your customers talking.

It is important for all parents to examine the system of belief that shapes their moment-by-moment interactions with their children.

so much of what drives our responses to our kids is an unannounced set of laws that are more about what we want for ourselves and our lives than what God wants for and from our children. In our allegiance to our law, we end up breaking God's law in our interactions with our children. In this way we are just like our children: people who need to be rescued from ourselves. You

I propose that so much of what drives our responses to our kids is an unannounced set of laws that are more about what we want for ourselves and our lives than what God wants for and from our children. In our allegiance to our law, we end up breaking God's law in our interactions with our children. In this way we are just like our children: people who need to be rescued from ourselves.

The things you do and say always tell you more about yourself than whoever you're speaking or responding to

as a rule, we are all happier when we give activities, like talking to friends, our full attention.

Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.

It has been a long transition from interacting with computers using a soldering iron to interacting using a mouse. It has been neither smooth nor planned.

Computation is fundamentally a representational medium, but as we attempt to expand the ways in which we interact with computation, we need to pay attention to the duality of representation and participation.