Quotes About Interactions

There are people out there. Nothing fucks things up faster than people.

I rarely do business with wankers.

So funktioniert Höflichkeit. Man pflegt Beziehungen mit Leuten, auch wenn man sie nicht mag.

Jokes, secrets, complicities; a glance here, a word there: that is their way of being together, of being apart.

As the Buddha said, "People with opinions just go around bothering one another.

On the one hand Twitter gives you the opportunity to engage with people, which is great, but on the other there are people who feel they can say whatever they want, put poison out there, really, without fear of any repercussions.

I operate a pretty strict muting and blocking policy on Twitter.

I think, like, Twitter is somewhat difficult sometimes, and it can be kind of negative.

The real energy occurs in each connection between two people, which can bring about exponential returns.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

You are the sum total of the people you meet and interact with in the world. Whether it's your family, peers, or co-workers, the opportunities you have and the things that you learn all come through doors that other people open for you.

All couples have disagreements and argue. And, when couples are stressed, they are likely to have more arguments. What distinguishes the marriages that last from those that don't is not how often they argue, but how they argue and how they treat each other on a daily basis.

We're very interested in helping individuals on the autism spectrum cope and learn about social interactions and regulating emotions.

Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.

When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

But what little I'd heard had left me amazed by how clever people were at finding ways to make each other crazy and miserable.

At any rate the total number of persons at the table was not enormously larger than the number of categories, meaning that nearly everyone present was reacting in an altogether different way, and in most cases doing so rather strongly, leading to a pandemonium of fainting, screaming, knife waving, malicious glaring, furious remonstration, hand-clapping delight, dismay, judicious beard stroking, etc. to say nothing of secondary interactions, as when a knife waver collided with a screamer.

a combinatorial explosion of name cards and introductions...

Grammar is like the walls and bumpers of a pinball machine. Rhetoric is like the flippers of a pinball machine. You control the flippers. The rest of the machine—grammar—controls everything else. If you use the flippers well, you make points. If you fail to image your concepts viably, your ball drops into the black hole of nothingness. If you try to cheat, the machine tilts and you lose—that's like people not understanding your interactions.

What's the golden rule of social networking? Luther hangs up his coat. Don't do it?

Shortly before, during, and after the strong and electroweak forces parted company, the universe was a seething soup of quarks, leptons, and their antimatter siblings, along with bosons, the particles that enable their interactions.

With people, too, you constantly think, 'If I'm nice to people and treat them well, they'll appreciate it and behave better.' They won't, but it's still not a bad way to live.