Quotes About Interactions

It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out

The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.

life depends on what she thinks of as 'big bursts' and 'little bursts.' Big bursts are things like marriage or children, intimacies that keep you afloat, but these big bursts hold dangerous, unseen currents. Which is why you need the little bursts as well: a friendly clerk at Bradlee's, let's say, or the waitress at Dunkin' Donuts who knows how you like your coffee.

Never be the first to arrive at a party or the last to go home, and never, ever be both.

the basic rules of serious futurology are (a) look for the large trends and analyze how they work, (b) construct models to suggest how different trends may interact, and (c) be alert for countertrends or other factors that might falsify or cut across the predictions suggested by long trends and simple modeling.

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Good families are generally worse than any others.

Human beings are strange creatures. As people come across one another they produce various outcomes. Good things, sometimes. And other times, bad.

Oh, how terribly backwards, and yet sadly common, it is to sit scowling at family all the day long and then quickly put on a smile for strangers who drop by.

The amount you laugh in your relationships with others is the true measure of the health of your personality.

The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.

A tip for increased sales or in situations of life or death: Try to always refer to the lady as Miss. or Ms. Using the term: Ma'am could piss her off.

Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.

If you don't know the person personally, then don't take it personally.

My love life since I moved to New York from Chicago has been like a desert. I've had tiny little interactions of love, like finding shallow pools of water to drink from, and then I've moved on, hoping that I've stored enough love and affection and excitement to get me to the next place.

In Charles Dickens's books I had to admire the way the meanest enemies spoke to each other, with what seemed to me to be the greatest civility.

Human ties are the greatest distorters of reality because they tend to conceal man's worst selfish instincts.

The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas.

Their interactions are like passing a shuttle of yarn back and forth, weaving a connection between their hearts.

I learned an enormous lesson about the value of relationships in doing business. In business interactions it is not just who you know, but who you have taking that extra step to vouch for you that can make all the difference between success and failure.