Interaction Quotes - Page 11

• Very little comes easily to our poor, benighted species (the first creature, after all, to experiment with the novel evolutionary inventions of self-conscious philosophy and art). Even the most "obvious," "accurate," and "natural" style of thinking or drawing must be regulated by history and won by struggle. Solutions must therefore arise within a social context and record the complex interactions of mind and environment that define the possibility of human improvement.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Art, Philosophy, Struggle

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms”, p.72, Harvard University Press

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• Although an impressive amount of business and social interaction takes place over the telephone and fax, by e-mail, or in person today, the well-written letter remains a staple of business success and one of the strongest connecting links between human beings.

  Rosalie Maggio

  Business Success, Fax, Links

  Rosalie Maggio (2009). “How to Say It, Third Edition: Choice Words, Phrases, Sentences, and Paragraphs for Every Situation”, p.11, Penguin

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• The only meaningful contact is one that involves a genuine, giving personal interaction. You may want another person to help you in business, but you must also be willing to help him and to spend time getting to know his interests and needs... It has to be real and heartfelt, or it's best not to try to establish the relationship at all.

  Art Linkletter

  Meaningful, Real, Giving

  Art Linkletter (1979). “Yes, You Can: How to Succeed in Business and Life”, Simon & Schuster

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• As for not getting things right: I constantly rerun social situations/conversations I experience/have throughout my head, and I'm always writing them down in notebooks or in word documents/the Internet. I feel like these habits and a generally good memory of people/the interactions I have with them (due to studying people having always been my main interest in life) have lead me to being very accurate in things I write in stories/essays.

  Marie Calloway

  Notebook, Memories, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• [The Land] is a film that just happens to be directed and written by a Puerto Rican guy with a black dad. It seemed like a very natural, human interaction between people who all just came from one common cesspool of bad luck.

  Erykah Badu

  Dad, Land, People

  "Sundance 2016 Interview: 'The Land'". Interview with Hunter Harris, www.rogerebert.com. February 2, 2016.

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• I could feel the real interaction between directing and acting, when an actor or an actress really suggests very interesting things.

  Alejandro Amenabar

  Real, Interesting, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• There's so many variables in comedy. Comedy is not this thing that's a performance like a play. It's really an interaction with every single person in the room. And if there's a weirdness in the room for any people, be it something the comedians did at the top of the set or be it the mixture of the people isn't right, something can go awry. So it's really great to see you proven wrong about someone.

  B. J. Porter

  Play, People, Comedian

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• In Lagos there's a really strong case to resurrect strong parts. Embedded in all of it are some amazing pieces of planning, amazing pieces of engineering and interaction. For instance, the campus of Lagos University is stunningly beautiful, efficient and generous, and that needs to be recognised and preserved.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Beautiful, Strong, Engineering

  "'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi". Interview with Chris Michael, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2016.

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• And in this relentlessly unfolding series of interactions, the U.S. has played a very distinctive role, which most Americans have been either shielded from or simply unaware of.

  Edward Said

  Roles, Unfolding, Has Beens

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I am who I am and I am what I am. And it's beautiful. And it's okay even if it doesn't look like the sexiest Victoria Secret model. It also boils down to my interactions with people.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Beautiful, Who I Am, People

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• If you can't be psyched about your own thoughts, then how are you supposed to have a meaningful interaction with anyone?

  Angel Olsen

  Meaningful, Ifs

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Music videos are very concrete and rigid. They don't allow for emotional interaction.

  Chris Milk

  Emotional, Video, Concrete

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think most people come toward things assuming everybody is going to be a good person. When you have an interaction where it doesn't go that way, it's very problematic and interesting and weird.

  Craig Zobel

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Me writing the book and the subsequent interactions that we had were actually the cap on that experience. We were still in this weird purgatory about it when I published the book. When I gave them the galleys and what ensued after that, then I understood a lot more about our relationships and what the experience meant to them. I'd never wanted to know what they thought about it at all.

  Melissa Febos

  Book, Writing, Our Relationship

  Source: therumpus.net

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• That's your opportunity - to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing.

  Seth Godin

  Unique, Opportunity, Way

  Seth Godin (2015). “Poke the Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.38, Penguin UK

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• I had very low self-esteem. Books saved me. I found friends in stories like The Chronicles of Narnia and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. During lunch hour at school I'd avoid social interactions by sitting on the bathroom sink and reading. My mother worked in my school cafeteria. When my anxiety got really bad, I'd put a coat on, grab my book and a flashlight, and hide in the freezer with the mac and cheese.

  Jenny Lawson

  Mother, Self Esteem, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think of the described dynamics as a fluid negotiation. I don't think these specific interactions can happen to the black or brown body without the white body. And there are ways in which, if you say, "Oh, this happened to me," then the white body can say, "Well, it happened to her and it has nothing to do with me." But if it says "you," that you is an apparent part of the encounter.

  Claudia Rankine

  Thinking, White, Black

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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

  Interaction With Others, Waiting, Together

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When you think of a social network, you have these two-way interactions: "Are you my friend? Yes? No? Yes?" Like LinkedIn, it's business oriented, but it's all about establishing connections. You connect to me through my other connections, and that sort of thing, and you sort of define who your friends are. Twitter doesn't have that.

  Biz Stone

  Thinking, Two, Connections

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I do think that I have a more flexible view of the interactions between people, and between human and non-human protagonists, humans and their landscapes.

  Karen Russell

  Thinking, Views, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Ugh, puppy mills. These commercial breeding facilities are horrendous. The animals are kept in tiny wire cages, with little to no human interaction throughout their lives. They are rarely, if ever, seen medically and are forced to breed over and over again and watch as their babies are taken away from them and sold to pet stores. It is a supply-and-demand business, so the more people stop going to pet stores and choose to adopt instead, the quicker we can put an end to these puppy mills.

  Beth Ostrosky Stern

  Baby, Taken, Animal

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• If you're paying attention to human interactions - to the gap between who we are and who we think we are, or the gap between what happened and what we remember - you're going to end up thinking (obliquely or otherwise) about what it means to act ethically, and I think that's all to the good.

  Roy Kesey

  Mean, Thinking, Remember You

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Of course I love when people are quiet, but I also love when people are comfortable. I love when people emote. The flip side of having a totally silent audience is that they're less likely to react to you in the space, and I think that's one of the great things about performing live: you get energy from the audience, and you give energy back to them. There's interaction.

  Missy Mazzoli

  Thinking, Space, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction.

  Beck

  People, Collaboration, Band

  "Catching Up With Beck". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 2, 2010.

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• People who just listen to music and are not a part of the creative community should realize that there is a lot of interaction between artists who have different styles.

  Kristoffer Rygg

  Artist, People, Creative

  Source: pitchfork.com

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