Interaction Quotes - Page 21

• On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interactions that are crucial to the way knowledge moves through an organization. The role that hallway chat plays in driving new ideas has become a cliche of business writing, but that doesn't make it less true.

  James Surowiecki

  Moving, Writing, Play

  "Face Time". www.newyorker.com. March 18, 2013.

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• For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  People, Anxiety, Telephones

  "I (Robot) Thee Wed" by Daniel H. Wilson, www.slate.com. May 4, 2012.

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• Having a kid, it makes you slow down; when you're walking with a toddler to pick up a leaf it can take a half hour. You've never spent that time looking at a leaf before, having that kind of interaction. So I think it does make you change the way you look things.

  Sofia Coppola

  Kids, Thinking, Doe

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Ideas, Innovation, Needs

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• I aim to create furniture that appears in a room as buildings on a skyline and reminds the viewer of the interaction between objects of design and architectural space.

  Gae Aulenti

  Space, Design, Skylines

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• When encountering emotional vampires, see what you can learn. It's your choice. You can simply feel tortured, resentful, impotent. Or, as I try to do, ask yourself, “How can this interaction help me grow?

  Judith Orloff

  Emotional, Choices, Vampire

  Judith Orloff (2009). “Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life”, p.122, Harmony

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• One's spirituality is about one's deepest personal understanding of and interactions with Life and God... whatever those may be.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Understanding, May

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Dec 28, 2015

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• Orthodox Judaism is a thicket of detailed injunctions, Biblical commandments elaborated during centuries of prohibited proselytizing, functioning to limit interaction with outsiders. At the opposite extreme, Islam, still the most rapidly expanding of faiths, demands little immediate knowledge from those who would convert. The convert is permitted to enter and then to learn by participation, although there are plenty of detailed regulations and abstruse theological ideas to be pursued later, and the regulations do effectively separate believers from nonbelievers.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Biblical, Opposites, Ideas

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• Another potentiality of our irrepressible juvenility is a capacity to maintain until the onset of senility an active creative interaction with our environment. We persist in exploring, investigating, inventing, discovering. In these respects humans of all eras, in all societies, all ages of life, are more like baby chimps and not at all like the sedate and rigidly conforming adult chimpanzee, who hasn't changed much since she was five or six years old.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Baby, Years, Creative

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• When discs form around stars, there is interaction of angular momentum between disc, planets and parent star, and this interaction affects the rotation of the parent star, and that will affect the lithium abundance.

  Garik Israelian

  Stars, Parent, Momentum

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• A society which makes provision for participation in its good of all its members on equal terms and which secures flexible readjustment of its institutions through interaction of the different forms of associated life is in so far democratic. Such a society must have a type of education which gives individuals a personal interest in social relationships and control, and the habits of mind which secure social changes without introducing disorder.

  John Dewey

  Giving, Mind, Different

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.102, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a 'language acquisition device,' an innate component of the human mind that yields a particular language through interaction with present experience, a device that converts experience into a system of knowledge attained: knowledge of one or another language.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Yield, Mind

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• Clearly, there aren't enough positive moments or interactions happening in the workplace. As a result, our economy suffers, companies suffer, and individual relationships suffer.

  Tom Rath

  Suffering, Workplace, Conflict

  "Be Nice: It's Good for Business". Interview with Jennifer Robison, www.gallup.com. August 12, 2004.

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• The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and pleasure, but also the site of illnesses and strains. (...) [I]t is an action-system, a mode of praxis, and its practical immersion in the interactions of day-to-day life is an essential part of the sustaining of a coherent sense of self-identity.

  Anthony Giddens

  Self, Feelings, Identity

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.103, John Wiley & Sons

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• You can't take a congressman to lunch for $25 and buy him a hamburger or a steak or something like that. But you can take him to a fundraising lunch and not only buy him that steak, but give him $25,000 extra and call it a fundraiser. And have all the same access and all the same interactions with that congressman.

  Jack Abramoff

  Lunch, Giving, Hamburgers

  "Jack Abramoff: The lobbyist's playbook". Interview with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. July 9, 2012.

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• I feel like everything in your life begins with physical conditioning. I love eating sweets and stuff like that but I feel like the quality of my parenting is based on my physical conditioning; the quality of my relationship with my wife, the quality of all the interactions I have in my life start with being in great physical condition.

  Willi Smith

  Sweet, Wife, Quality

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The simple truth is that technology is still a poor substitute for human interaction.

  Robert G. Thompson

  Technology, Simple, Truth Is

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• It's always dangerous to prescribe an idea on other people. I think people's interactions with art are their own, and will be far more interesting and sophisticated than anything that I could come up with.

  Tom Sturridge

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• In addition to being in constant communion with God, we are to spend regular periods of time in focused, one-on-one interaction with our Creator.  And what a privilege!  To have access to the throne room of heaven anytime we choose is a divine benefit we should not ignore.

  Bob Lepine

  Heaven, Thrones, Benefits

  Bob Lepine (2003). “The Christian Husband: God's Vision for Loving and Caring for Your Wife”, Gospel Light Pubns

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• We form cities in order to enhance interaction, to facilitate growth, wealth creation, ideas, innovation, but in so doing, we create from - from a physicist's viewpoint, entropy, meaning all of those bad things that we feel are engulfing us.

  Geoffrey West

  Order, Cities, Ideas

  "What Does Nature Teach Us About Cities?". "TED Radio Hour" with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. June 11, 2012.

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• I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.

  Hari Kunzru

  Simple, Ideas, Patterns

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• LSD was not a pharmacological agent generating exotic experiences by its interaction with the neurophysiological processes in the brain. This remarkable substance was clearly an unspecific catalyst of the deep dynamics of the human psyche. The experiences induced by it were not neurochemical artifacts, symptoms of a toxic psychosis as mainstream psychiatrists called it, but genuine manifestations of the human psyche itself.

  Stanislav Grof

  Psychosis, Brain, Substance

  Stanislav Grof (2009). “When the Impossible Happens: Adventures in Non-Ordinary Realities, Read How You Want Edition”, p.58, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A study of interactions between women and obstetricians offers an explanation. It described three levels of increasing power imbalance: In the first, you fight and lose; in the second you don't fight because you know you can't win. However, in the highest level of power differential, your preferences are so manipulated that you act against your own interests, but you are content. Elective [meaning requested for no medical reason, not to be confused with needed surgery planned in advance] repeat cesarean exemplifies that highest level.

  Henci Goer

  Confused, Fighting, Winning

  Henci Goer (1999). “The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth”, p.163, Penguin

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• Content is power in today's world, and if you can own that content, create it and make interaction more of an experience than a transaction, you create a different kind of loyalty.

  Mindy Grossman

  Loyalty, Different, World

  "Q&A With Mindy Grossman". Interview with Jordan Saniuk, footwearnews.com. January 11, 2010.

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• The time-use studies also show that employed women spend as much time as nonworking women in direct interactions with their children. Employed mothers spend as much time as those at home reading to and playing with their young children, although they do not, of course, spend as much time simply in the same room or house with the children.

  Sandra Scarr

  Mother, Children, Reading

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