Quotes About Interaction

El educador ya no es solo el que educa sino aquel que, en tanto que educa, es educado a través del diálogo con el educando, quien, al ser educado, también educa. [...] Nadie educa a nadie, así como tampoco nadie se educa a sí mismo, las personas se educan entre sí con el mundo como mediador.

If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed

Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.

There is a great unseen circularity in life, and we are all interacting with the people we are supposed to help and be helped by.

I don't play solitaire. It seems so lonely, somehow.

When Emma sat down on a rock to take off her shoes and stockings, he said to her, "You've Yankee feet. Long and skinny." "And you've Irish feet," she said, right back at him. "Big and always in your mouth

Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

All you have to do is circulate and listen. If you know what they're talking about, join in. If you don't know what they're talking about, then ask questions,' he relayed as if it was really that simple. 'People don't mind being asked questions. In fact, they like to show off their knowledge. What they don't like is someone pretending to know what they're talking about when they don't.

Because of their composite nature, complex systems can exhibit catastrophic behavior.

Although computers allow people to talk at the speed of light, no one talks that fast.

Learn to revel in the unalloyed loveliness of receiving attention—to do this, you may have to leave your computer keyboard and invite it.

Sports (and the often barely withheld violence around them) have become one of the few modern ways to connect with strangers. They give an amazing number of geeks things to talk about. In the old days we settled for, "Hello, how are you?"

Guys have four personalities: the one they use with their parents, the one they use around other adults, the one they use for talking to girls, and the one they use for hanging with their friends. Leakage between the various personality types can cause serious problems.

Just remember, it's an easy place to be at home in, Ireland. I think the people are very skilled at relating. I notice, watching the different nationalities on the mountain, the fluidity of interaction the Irish people have with the visitors, and with each other. It's a skill that's less developed in other nationalities, and it's so instinctive it doesn't even look like a skill.

I was surprised at how much I enjoyed meeting fans face to face. They're less scary when they aren't going nuts at a Who show. But then, so am I.

Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.

They say life is all about connecting, like that's a good thing. But when brain and eyes are lining up you know different.

Cognitive psychologists have confirmed what we already knew: that readers of complex novels show a greater capacity for understanding the complexities of human interaction.8

Interacting with other people does not come naturally to me; it is a strain and requires effort, and since it does not come naturally I feel like I am not really myself when I make that effort. I feel fairly comfortable with my family, but even with them I sometimes feel the strain of not being alone.

It was strange to see someone you have only known alone begin interacting with other people, for that somebody known to you disappears and is replaced by a different, more complex, person. You watch him revolve in this new company, revealing new facets, and there is nothing you can do but hope you like these other sides as much as you like the side that seemed whole when it faced only you.

I met a man at a party. He said "I'm writing a novel" I said "Oh really? Neither am I.

If you are trying to be inventive and come up with lots of interesting new ideas, it's usually the worst thing in the world if someone comes along and starts being critical. Thus, the power of brainstorming: no one is allowed to criticize any idea or suggestion that is offered—no matter how stupid, impractical, or useless it seems. You can't get the good ones and the fruitful interaction among the odd ones unless you welcome the terrible ones.

Any species possessing this kind of knowledge base is best left unannoyed.

A large part of evolution is interaction. Isolation is not evolution; it is stagnation.