Interaction Quotes - Page 26

• There is a constant and intimate contact among the things that coexist and co-evolve in the universe - a sharing of bonds and messages that makes reality into a stupendous network of interaction and communication.

  Ervin Laszlo

  Communication, Reality, Messages

  Ervin Laszlo (1999). “The Whispering Pond: A Personal Guide to the Emerging Vision of Science”, Element Books, Limited

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• We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait. People seeking to control others almost always present the image of a nice person in the beginning.

  Gavin de Becker

  Inspirational, Children, Nice

  Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company

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• Communication media enabled collective action on new scales, at new rates, among new groups of people, multiplied the power available to civilizations and enabled new forms of social interaction. The alphabet enabled empire and monotheism, the printing press enabled science and revolution, the telephone enabled bureaucracy and globalization, the internet enabled virtual communities and electronic markets, the mobile telephone enabled smart mobs and tribes of info-nomads.

  Howard Rheingold

  Smart, Communication, Media

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• From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Real, Government

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• All human interaction, you can break it down to incentives. All relationships, at some level, are transactional. They're fascinated with incentives.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Levels, Incentives, Break

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Human interaction is the key force in overcoming resistance and speeding change.

  Atul Gawande

  Keys, Overcoming, Resistance

  "Annals of Medicine" by Atul Gawande, www.newyorker.com. July 29, 2013.

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• The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials

  Michael Schudson

  Stories, Journalism, Bases

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• If we define 'thought collective' as a community of persons mutually exchanging ideas or maintaining intellectual interaction, we will find by implication that it also provides the special 'carrier' for the historical development of any field of thought, as well as for the given stock of knowledge and level of culture. This we have designated thought style.

  Ludwik Fleck

  Ideas, Community, Historical

  Ludwik Fleck (2012). “Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact”, p.39, University of Chicago Press

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• I've found my calling with Twitter. It's all about the amount of interaction you do, and the traffic you move, and I'm really good at that. I keep going and going and going, and no one can believe that I can keep it up.

  Tila Tequila

  Believe, Moving, Calling

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• Ayahuasca, unlike mushrooms and all these other things is only as good as the person who made it. . . . The ayahuasca is a combinatory drug, and so it brings the human interaction and the lore of it into a much more central position.

  Terence McKenna

  Ayahuasca, Mushrooms, Drug

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• Group interaction tends to amplify people's initial inclinations

  David Myers

  People, Groups, Amplify

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• There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relationship. Be honest to your partner and tell him everything. How long can you do things with dishonesty and that's wrong. Don't get into a relationship if you can't be honest.

  Randeep Hooda

  Honesty, Two, Long

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• Please be careful of becoming so immersed and engrossed in pixels, texting, ear buds, Twittering, online social networking, and potentially addictive uses of media and the Internet that you fail to recognize the importance of your physical body and miss the richness of person-to-person communication. Beware of the digital displays and data in many forms of computer-mediated interaction that can displace the full range of physical capacity and experience.

  David A. Bednar

  Communication, Media, Data

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• Natural selection is a blind and undirected consequence of the interaction between variation and the environment. Natural selection exists only in the continuous present of the natural world: it has no memory of its previous actions, no plans for the future, or underlying purpose.

  Henry Gee

  Memories, Purpose, Variation

  Henry Gee (1999). “In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life”, p.96, Cornell University Press

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• State companies winning deals because of government-to- government interaction has become a rule rather than an exception. This will increase competition for multinational companies in acquiring oil and gas assets.

  Arjuna Mahendran

  Winning, Oil, Government

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• Being a father is the hardest job on the planet, because we don't have parental instincts like women have. You have to learn how to be a father before you even become a father, from a very young age. It's necessary to override what we're told in society a father should be, like if your son falls and scrapes his knee, you got to be tough. Baseball and all that are cool, but it's the tenderness and interactions that are really important. Boys are different; we have to impart that sensibility and that tenderness to them.

  Malik Yusef

  Baseball, Jobs, Father

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I get a lot of satisfaction from crafting and shaping mixes. I love finding the right balance, the right dynamic. It's an emotional interaction with the music.

  Chris McCormack

  Emotional, Balance, Satisfaction

  Source: www.hkclubbing.com

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• I have no Facebook page or Twitter - I don't participate in it, and I don't like it particularly. I mean, it's a form of interaction, which strikes me as extremely superficial.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Pages, Superficial

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 3, 2015.

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• The purpose of romantic relationships is to encourage you to grow spiritually. Romantic relationships can do this because they are interactions in which you come to see those parts of yourself that are constructive, healthy and creative. You see them because you project them onto someone else.

  Gary Zukav

  Creative, Healthy, Purpose

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.awaken.com. August 18, 2013.

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• My experience in the United States was living in a society that was very much at war with itself, that was very alienated. People felt not part of a community, but like isolated units that were afraid of interaction, of contact, that were lonely.

  Assata Shakur

  Lonely, War, People

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• If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront your responsibility as narrator, whereas any of the social sciences make you at look the interaction between the storyteller and story.

  Dorothy Allison

  Art, Writing, Responsibility

  "A Conversation with Dorothy Allison". Interview with Renée Olander, www.awpwriter.org. October 2002.

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• I've noticed that nowadays I'm doing a lot of stuff on the phone and on the computer, which I usually wouldn't do earlier. And I can feel my brain being rewired: I'm getting anxious, I'm getting more manic. Now, I'm an extreme case because I'm old and I'm overdoing it. But still, it's really interesting that I can actually feel a change in my neurochemistry from this interaction with the technology.

  George Saunders

  Technology, Phones, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Once a month I play with a chamber music quartet. I play almost no solo music anymore because I so enjoy the interaction. The members of my quartet have become some of my best friends and so I really enjoy it now in ways that I didn't before.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Play, My Best Friend, Way

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• We live in an age where people are like, "I'd love to catch up. Maybe text me later? But don't call because I don't really listen to my messages. But if you text me..." We've displaced interaction into sound bites and untethered phrases and sentences that come up on the phone as Twitter feed.

  Marc Maron

  Phones, People, Age

  "Q&A: Marc Maron on the Decline of Conversation, TV Stardom, Oligarchs, Self-Doubt & Cats". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. May 2, 2013.

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• There are two types of relationships: nourishing and toxic. Do not keep the toxic. What interaction does light have with darkness? None!

  Les Brown

  Light, Two, Darkness

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