Quotes about Interaction

Their remarks and responses were like a Ping-Pong game with each volley clearing the net and flying back to the opposition. The sense of what they were saying became lost, and only the exercise remained. The exchange was conducted with the certainty of a measured hoedown and had the jerkiness of Monday's wash snapping in the wind—now cracking east, then west, with only the intent to whip the dampness out of the cloth.

Sometimes people behave in certain ways to provoke us to react in certain ways. If we stop reacting in these certain ways, we take all the fun out of it for them.

My PhD project was actually doing something that required a high-intensity laser. It was supposed to work in a way that many, many photons of light would interact with an atom all at the same time.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

The gods, if so minded, might mingle with men, so as to see and be seen, hear and be heard.

It's no secret that I love to talk, but the real secret is I love to listen, too.

Use each interaction to be the best, most powerful version of yourself.

Only by externalization, by entering into social relationships, can we develop the interiority of our own person.

In my house we were so near that we could not begin to hear -- we could not speak low enough to be heard; as when you throw two stones into calm water so near that they break each other's undulations.

We are more anxious to speak than to be heard.

Listen carefully: Recognizing God is not the same as coming to Him. Hearing God in your heart is not the same as answering. Working for the kingdom of God does not mean living in the kingdom of God. Christianity is not believing the truths of the Bible; it's acting upon them and allowing God control of your life. You must respond to God and make the choice to interact personally with Him.

What people are perceiving will dictate what their life and ultimately what your interaction is.