Quotes About Interactions

Forty percent of our social interactions happen with 5 other people, and 60 percent with only 15 others. It's hard to have a sustained conversation with more than 4 people. It's hard for an intensely committed group to be much more than 12 in number. And somewhere around 150 is a typical upper size for a close-knit community.

is a collective emergent agglomeration resulting from nonlinear social and organizational interactions

The world was full of interesting words used to describe complicated things. There was tartle, a Scottish word for the panicked pause you experience when you have to introduce someone, but you don't remember their name. There was backpafeifengesicht, a German term for a face you'd love to punch. There was gigil, a Filipino word for the urge

Some people are just 'diminishers' and 'spoilers' for others. I suppose almost everybody diminishes someone. A saint would be nobody's spoiler.

casi todas nuestras penas surgen de nuestras relaciones con otras personas.

Innumerable surveys have made it quite clear that when a respectable elderly man makes up to a giggling young lady, it is not the giggling young lady so accosted that is offended by the action, but rather the granite-faced dowager, standing unnoticed by her side, who is. It is she who makes derogatory remarks concerning dirty old men, and is quite likely to attack him with an umbrella.

Most zombie stories, the problems they solve are not the actual zombies. The problems they solve are the human interactions.

It is easier to visit friends than to live with them.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.

Acquaintance, n: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

In addition to a timeline, I have proposed that U.S. troops be removed from front line combat positions in Iraqi cities and towns, turning over daily security patrols, interactions with citizens, and any offensive security actions to the Iraqis themselves.

In the early 1990s, I was signed as a singer to the same label as Robyn. She was in her early teens, and I was in my twenties, so we didn't hang out, but our paths crossed so many times that we slowly got to know each other and became friends.

research suggests that rather than help couples resolve content issues, therapy should help couples develop soothing interactions and maintain emotional engagement during disagreements.

Young lady! That's no way to speak to your grandmother!

How we treat one another is what we are still able to do something about.

The crime rates would go right down, I think, if Americans stopped saying: 'Have a nice day,' to one another. At least it would stop me from contemplating violence; when people in shops & so on order me to have a nice day in this authoritarian way, I want to kill, kill, kill. When I mutter 'sod off' under my breath, they think it is a Russian Orthodox benediction.

The language we use to describe and operate in the world affects the way we understand the world, our place in it, and our interactions with one another. Changing our language changes our world. This

Real relations are not what we make. It's what time makes.

Their three flaws: 1) they think in statics not dynamics, 2) they think in low, not high, dimensions, 3) they think in terms of actions, never interactions.

the effects on the environment are not foreseeable—nobody studied the interactions.

The world is getting less and less predictable, and we rely more and more on technologies that have errors and interactions that are harder to estimate, let alone predict.

The main idea behind complex systems is that the ensemble behaves in ways not predicted by its components. The interactions matter more than the nature of the units.

because the interactions are not necessarily linear.

parts and whole differ because what matters are the interactions between such parts.