Interaction With Others Quotes

• . . . our lives are shaped by our interactions with others. Whether we have a long conversation with a friend or simply place an order at a restaurant, every interaction makes a difference.

  Donald O. Clifton

  Order, Differences, Long

  Tom Rath, Donald O. Clifton (2007). “How Full Is Your Bucket? Educator's Edition: Positive Strategies for Work and Life”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Every person with whom you interact is a part of the person you are becoming.
  Not a single interaction with a single person is left out of the process of your becoming. Many assume that only pleasing relationships have value, but that is not the case. Your awareness of an unwanted situation evokes from you a clear Vibrational request for something different. And so, even those uncomfortable interactions with others form the Vibrational basis of your expansion.

  Esther Hicks

  Expansion, Different, Becoming

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• In interactions with others, instead of trying to be right, why don't we try being kind?

  Wayne Dyer

  Trying, Be Kind, Kind

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• One of the best ways to educate our hearts is to look at our interaction with other people, because our relationships with others are fundamentally a reflection of our relationship with ourselves.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Relationship, Heart

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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• In our interactions with others, gentleness, kindness, respectare the source of harmony

  Gautama Buddha

  Kindness, Harmony, Source

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• I think the use of language is a very important means by which this species, because of its biological nature, creates a kind of social space, to place itself in interactions with other people. It doesn't have much to do with communication in a narrow sense; that is, it doesn't involve transmission of information. There is much information transmitted but it is not the content of what is said that is transmitted.

  Noam Chomsky

  Communication, Mean, Thinking

  Source: chomsky.info

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• Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .

  Niels Bohr

  Isolated, Materials, Particles

  Niels Bohr, Leon Rosenfeld (1985). “Collected works”

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• Complex organisms cannot be construed as the sum of their genes, nor do genes alone build particular items of anatomy or behavior by themselves. Most genes influence several aspects of anatomy and behavior as they operate through complex interactions with other genes and their products, and with environmental factors both within and outside the developing organism. We fall into a deep error, not just a harmful oversimplification, when we speak of genes "for" particular items of anatomy or behavior.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Fall, Errors, Environmental Factors

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• The hours spent viewing TV are hours not available for actively participating in the real world, or playing, or being involved with friends and family. Watching television is an individual activity that tends to discourage interaction with others; as viewing time increases, family communication time decreases. As family communication decreases, people grow more distant from each other and may even forget how to carry on a good conversation.

  Louise Hart

  Real, Communication, People

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• One is faced with a dilemma: If one places total trust in all other users, one is vulnerable to the antisocial behavior of any malicious user consider the case of viruses. But if one tries to be totally reclusive and isolated, one is not only bored, but one's information universe will cease to grow and be enhanced by interaction with others. The result is that most of us operate in a complicated trade-off zone with various arrangements of trust and security mechanisms.

  Fernando J. Corbato

  Bored, Trying, Information

  "On Building Systems That Will Fail". Communications of the ACM, Volume 34 Issue 9, dl.acm.org. September 1991.

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• To teach your child to only be a Muslim in Muslim spaces or only a Christian in Christian spaces means in a way that you're teaching them a religious identity that is relevant to only a very small part of their lives, because the vast majority of their lives in the 21st century are going to be lived in interaction with others.

  Eboo Patel

  Christian, Religious, Children

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You want to belong, you want to be here. In interactions with others you're constantly waiting to see that they recognize that you're a human being. That they can feel your heartbeat and you can feel theirs. And that together you will live - you will live together.

  Claudia Rankine

  Waiting, Together, Want

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I suffer because my interactions with others do not meet the expectations I did not know I had.

  Jim McDonald

  Expectations, Inner Peace, Suffering

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• Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that.

  Will Oldham

  Song, Writing, People

  Will Oldham (2012). “Will Oldham on Bonnie "Prince" Billy”, p.5, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Love is a way of seeing and a way of being that honors God in everyone we meet. And it changes us in the most fundamental way. All we need to do is welcome the challenge of our relationships, training our eyes to look beyond human behavior to the Presence within. When we seek to live love, we discover through our interactions with others the divinity within ourselves.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Love, Eye, Challenges

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• Each of us needs periods in which our minds can focus inwardly. Solitude is an essential experience for the mind to organize its own processes and create an internal state of resonance. In such a state, the self is able to alter its constraints by directly reducing the input from interactions with others. (p. 235)

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Self, Focus, Solitude

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• No matter how significant or life-changing your greatest hit or miss might be, neither even begins to define who you are. Each of us is a product of all our experiences and all our interactions with other people. To cite calculus, we are the area under the curve.

  Colin Powell

  Life Changing, Curves, People

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• We need to build millions of little moments of caring on an individual level. Indeed, as talk of a politics of meaning becomes more widespread, many people will feel it easier to publicly acknowledge their own spiritual and ethical aspirations and will allow themselves to give more space to their highest vision in their personal interactions with others. A politics of meaning is as much about these millions of small acts as it is about any larger change. The two necessarily go hand in hand.

  Michael Lerner

  God, Spiritual, Caring

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• Self-reflection entails asking yourself questions about your values, assessing your strengths and failures, thinking about your perceptions and interactions with others, and imagining where you want to take your life in the future.

  Robert L. Rosen

  Humility, Thinking About You, Reflection

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• When we believe or say we have been offended, we usually mean we feel insulted, mistreated, snubbed, or disrespected. And certainly clumsy, embarrassing, unprincipled, and mean-spirited things do occur in our interactions with other people that would allow us to take offense. However, it ultimately is impossible for another person to offend you or to offend me. Indeed, believing that another person offended us is fundamentally false. To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.

  David A. Bednar

  Believe, Mean, Offending

  "And Nothing Shall Offend Them". David A. Bednar's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 2006.

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• I still play music for the same reasons as when I first started; for the energy, the feeling, the interaction with others. Not for the money, ego or greed.

  Jason Newsted

  Play, Greed, Ego

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• Our actions are guaranteed to affect others. Because we are not alone in this world, much of our learning about ourselves comes from our interaction with others. Our relationships are our teachers. We learn from each other.

  Tae Yun Kim

  Teacher, World, Our Actions

  Dr. Tae Yun Kim (2011). “Seven Steps to Inner Power”, p.47, Jung SuWon

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• Their function is to anchor the frequency of the new consciousness on this planet. I call them the frequency-holders. They are here to generate consciousness through the activities of daily life, through their interactions with others as well as through "just being."

  Eckhart Tolle

  Life, Anchors, Just Being

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.223, Penguin

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• You are completely at choice who you will be today in your interactions with others. Compassionate, kind, giving and forgiving will create one set of probabilities; angry, judgmental, critical and defensive will create another one altogether.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Giving, Choices

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 27, 2013

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• I feel like for me the lyric writing really comes from just what's going on in my heart and that's what consumes me; think a lot of our heart is relationships. Not just with boyfriend or girlfriend but all your relationships in your life with other people and our interactions with other humans.

  Amy Lee

  Girlfriend, Writing, Heart

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