Interaction Quotes

• Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between people, and their beliefs - in religion, literature, colleges and schools- democracy in all public and private life.

  Walt Whitman

  Party, Flower, School

  Walt Whitman (2009). “Democratic Vistas: The Original Edition in Facsimile”, p.33, University of Iowa Press

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• To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Leadership, Integrity, Taken

  "On purposeful systems (1972)". "Thinking about Quality: Progress, Wisdom, and the Deming Philosophy". Book by Clare Crawford-Mason and Lloyd Dobyns, p. 40, 1994.

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• The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Sports, Heart, Fire

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.92, Shambhala Publications

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• Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.

  Gregory Bateson

  Stress, Sides, Language

  "Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity". Book by Gregory Bateson, 1979.

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• Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Success, Powerful, Communication

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• To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time.

  Gregory Bateson

  Thinking, Two, Quality

  "Mind and Nature - a Necessary Unity". Book by Gregory Bateson, new edition, 1988.

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• Every time we interact with another person at work, we have a choice to make: do we try to claim as much value as we can, or contribute value without worrying about what we receive in return?

  Adam Grant

  Appreciation, Time, Worry

  Adam Grant (2013). “Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success”, p.12, Penguin

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• At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction.

  Margaret Mahy

  Book, Thinking, Two

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• I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard.

  William C. Kirby

  Believe, Understanding, May

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• I have had a great deal of interaction with Koreans and feel a fairly strong bond with Korea.

  Joichi Ito

  Strong, Korea, Ties

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• Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

  Keith Henson

  Successful, Behaviour, Attention

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• I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity.

  Helmut Jahn

  Creativity, Space, Office

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• I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their reaction, or feel them, whether they're with you.

  Saffron Burrows

  Reactions, Stage, Feels

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• The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.

  Walter Gilbert

  Vigor, Variation, Responsible

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• That's one of the great things about DVD: In addition to reaching people who didn't catch the movie in theaters, you get to have this interaction of sorts.

  Harold Ramis

  Dvds, People, Reaching

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• I always laugh the hardest at the stuff you see in day-to-day life. Its great when somebody can tell a joke that really makes you laugh hard, but to see some kind of personal interaction that no one could write is so good. Those are always the things that make me laugh.

  Luke Wilson

  Writing, Laughing, Stuff

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• You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.

  Helmut Jahn

  People, Chinese, Farce

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• This is the Bond of the new millennium. Everything is updated, from the action sequences to the interaction between the characters. All the elements reflect changes that have occurred in the world in recent years.

  Rick Yune

  Character, Years, Elements

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.

  Oliver Lodge

  Survival, Matter, Way

  Oliver Lodge (2012). “My Philosophy: Representing My Views on the Many Functions of the Ether of Space”, p.295, Cambridge University Press

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• Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.

  Roy Romer

  Thinking, Acquisition, Inquiry

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• The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other.

  Talcott Parsons

  Hands, Development, May

  Talcott Parsons, Peter Hamilton (1985). “Readings from Talcott Parsons”, Chichester [West Sussex] : E. Horwood ; London ; New York : Tavistock Publications

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• I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Guests, Language, Poet

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• At Adaptive Path, we've been doing our own work with Ajax over the last several months, and we're realizing we've only scratched the surface of the rich interaction and responsiveness that Ajax applications can provide.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Ajax, Lasts, Path

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• Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position.

  Reverend Malcolm Boyd

  Real, Mean, Fighting

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• Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.

  Evan Parker

  Attitude, Thinking, People

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