Interaction Quotes - Page 16

• There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you're asked.

  Anton Chekhov

  Integrity, Heart, Laughing

  Letter to his brother, A.P. Chekhov, October 9, 1888.

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• If I love myself I will express that love in my interactions with you, and then I am being impeccable with the word, because that action will produce a like reaction. If I love you, then you will love me. If I insult you, you will insult me. If I have gratitude for you , you will have gratitude for me. If I'm selfish with you, you will be selfish with me.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Motivational, Gratitude, Integrity

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• The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Food, Health, Science

  Frances Moore Lappé (1971). “Diet for a Small Planet”

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• I am starting to get tired of relying on words. They are full of meaning, yes, but they lack sensation. Writing to her is not the same as seeing her face as she listens. hearing back from her is not the same as hearing her voice. I have always been grateful for technology, but now it feels as if there's a little hitch of separation woven into any digital interaction. I want to be there, and this scares me. All my usual disconnected comforts are bieng taken away, now that I see the greater comfort of presence.

  David Levithan

  Grateful, Taken, Writing

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.131, Egmont UK

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• I like to be direct." "Okay," I said. "But I warn you, I like to be evasive, inserutable and generally send mixed messages." "I doubt it." "Human interaction is not my strong point," I told him.

  E. Lockhart

  Strong, Doubt, Messages

  "Real Live Boyfriends: Yes, Boyfriends, Plural, if my Life weren't Complicated, I wouldn't be Ruby Oliver". Book by E. Lockhart, 2010.

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• Wisdom is partly innate and partly developed and practised. It's about a lot more than just knowledge: experience, involvement, communication, interaction with people. Wisdom is a way of being.

  Hazel Hawke

  Wisdom, Communication, People

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• Humans impart meaning and purpose to almost all aspects of life. This sense of meaning and purpose gives us a road map for how to live a good life. This guidance emerges spontaneously from the interactions of human beings living in societies and thinking together about how best to get along. It doesn't require a god or sacred text.

  Greg Graffin

  Good Life, Thinking, Giving

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• does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction

  Tao Lin

  Doe, Social, Helmet

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• Most enjoyable activities are not natural; they demand an effort that initially one is reluctant to make. But once the interaction starts to provide feedback to the person's skills, it usually begins to be intrinsically rewarding.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Skills, Effort, Demand

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.

  Paul Caponigro

  Photography, Might, Photographer

  Paul Caponigro (2002). “New England Days”, p.7, David R. Godine Publisher

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• If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to make? What life changing relationships or passionate and lasting love affairs are lost to chance?

  Simon Pegg

  Life Changing, Fate, Important

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• Plainly it isn't an exact science, despite it being a complex interaction of micro-decisions and corresponding thought; perhaps it doesn't always work and we pass by some potential soulmates like the proverbial ships in the night, never quite connecting. Then again, perhaps the system is tenacious and continues to run like a computer program on infinite loop, so that if at first you don't meet, you are drawn back together for another try.

  Simon Pegg

  Running, Soulmate, Night

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• Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't just what we're taught. It's what we experience during those early years - a smile here, a jarring sound there - that creates the pathways and connections of the brain. We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?

  Sidney Poitier

  Children, Kids, Cutting

  Sidney Poitier (2009). “The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• It struck me recently, that one should really consider the sequence of a protein molecule about to fold into a precise geometric form as a line of melody written in a canon form & so designed by Nature to fold back into itself, creating harmonic chords of interaction consistent with biological function

  Christian B. Anfinsen

  Inspiration, Creating, Molecules

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• Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.

  Nate Silver

  Motivation, Inspiration, Race

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• Ronan merely invested a look with as much contempt as he could muster. A lady reached over the top of Noah to pat Matthew's head fondly before continuing down the aisle. She didn't seem to care that he was fifteen, which was all right, because he didn't, either. Both Ronan and Declan observed this interaction with the pleased expressions of parents watching their prodigy at work.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Expression, Parent, Looks

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• Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.

  Ian Dunbar

  Children, Opportunity, Training

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• We are many, many people and yet we are one. What we do today with our thinking, what we do tomorrow with our thoughts, what we do with our actions and our interactions with people determines the course of the universe itself. You are not powerless. You are not without power.

  Little Crow

  Thinking, People, Our Actions

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• So you think the best way to prepare kids for the real world is to bus them to a government institution where they're forced to spend all day isolated with children of their own age and adults who are paid to be with them, placed in classes that are too big to allow more than a few minutes of personal interaction with the teacher-then spend probably an hour or more everyday waiting in lunch lines, car lines, bathroom lines, recess lines, classroom lines, and are forced to progress at the speed of the slowest child in class?

  Steven James

  Teacher, Children, Real

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• The light of Christ illuminates the laboratory, his speech is the fount of communication, he makes possible the study of humans in all their interactions, he is the source of all life, he provides the wherewithal for every achievement of human civilization, he is the telos of all that is beautiful. He is, among his many other titles, the Christ of the academic road.

  Mark Noll

  Beautiful, Communication, Civilization

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• Single cells analyze thousands of stimuli from the microenvironment they inhabit. The more awareness an organism has of its environment, the better its chances for survival. When cells band together they increase their awareness exponentially. Division of labor among the cells in the community offers an additional survival advantage. The efficiency it enables more cells to live on less. Evolution is based on an instructive, cooperative interaction among organisms and their environment enables life forms to survive and evolve in a dynamic world.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Teamwork, Cells, Division Of Labor

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• I'm conscious of race whenever I'm writing, just as I'm conscious of class, religion, human psychology, politics — everything that makes up the human experience. I don't think I can do a good job if I'm not paying attention to what's meaningful to people, and in American culture, there isn't anything that informs human interaction more than the idea of race.

  Dwayne McDuffie

  Meaningful, Jobs, Writing

  "Race, Sci-Fi, and Comics: A Talk with Dwayne McDuffie". Interview with Evan Narcisse, www.theatlantic.com. March 5, 2010.

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

  Nancy Etcoff

  Motivation, Inspiration, Negative

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• Appreciation empowers not just money transactions, but all interactions. Gratitude is one of the greatest meditations of a lifetime, the fastest attitude uplifter I know. Be grateful for all the good in your life and your good will only increase, along with your happiness.

  Alan Cohen

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Attitude

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• The action is in the interaction.

  Douglas Conant

  Action

  Twitter post from May 18, 2016

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