Quotes About Face-to-face

It's nearly impossible to enforce actual consequences in video games at the moment, but at a table, sitting face-to-face across a tabletop game, or even playing at a LAN party, sportsmanship matters.

It is so strange, to encounter an ex. It's as if you're in a foreign film, and what you're saying face-to-face has nothing to do with the subtitles flowing beneath you. We are so careful not to touch, although once upon a time, I slept plastered to him in our bed, like lichen on a rock. We are two strangers who knows every shameful secret, every hidden freckle, every fatal flaw in each other.

It is much harder to lie to someone's face. But. It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

Hitch-hiking is a situational stage for karmic expression and discovery. "Getting there" is simply an excuse for the opportunity to go below our cultural facades and come face-to-face with the realities of living.

Deliver the Negative Stuff in Person: This was an informal rule that I encountered at several cultures. It goes like this: If you have negative news or feedback to give someone—even as small as a rejected item on an expense report—you are obligated to deliver that news face-to-face.

She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose, trembling mouth... People talking were meant to look at a face, the disastrous cupcake of it, the hide-and-seek of the heart dashing across. With a phone, you said words, but you never watched them go in. You saw them off at the airport but never knew whether there was anyone there to greet them when they got off the plane.

Face-to-face communication is inherently real-time and combines both verbal and nonverbal information.

No matter how tight your schedule or your clients' time, do your best to have face-to-face meetings. It is much easier to kill a "faceless deal." And above all, act honorably. That is what people remember.

Nothing, surely, is so likely to prepare us for that heaven where Christ's personal presence will be all, and that glory where we shall meet Christ face to face, as to realize communion with Christ, as an actual living Person here on earth. There is all the difference in the world between an idea and a person.

and in the hierarchy of breakups he was going to take the high road—no phone breakup, but a face-to-face, which ranked much higher than a text message or e-mail.

Life is not a Race to Chase, but we realize it only when Death comes face-to-face.

Minorities received the highest level of positive attention and the greatest influence on the private opinions of members of the majority and on the final group decision when they communicated face-to-face. —Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point

We may not have computers or telephones or television, but we have books and conversations. And we talk to each other in person, not through e-mails and texts.

Brothers, although we were torn away from you for a short time (in person, not in heart), our desire to see you face to face was even more intense.

I have many things to write to you, but I would prefer not to do so with paper and ink. Instead, I hope to come and speak with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete.