Quotes about Interaction

Relationships are two layers of conversations. Adapting and also speaking your mind.

The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.

Living among clowns and misanthropists, she probably cannot appreciate a better class of people when she meets them.

He did not raise his to her, often; a quick glance now and then sufficed; but it flashed back, each time more confidently, the undisguised delight he drank from hers.

We must consider what is the time for singing, what the time for play, and in whose presence: what will be unsuited to the occasion; whether our companions are to despise us, or we to despise ourselves: when to jest, and whom to mock at: and on what occasion to be conciliatory and to whom: in a word, how one ought to maintain one's character in society. Wherever you swerve from any of these principles, you suffer loss at once; not loss from without, but issuing from the very act itself.

Can we avoid people? How is that possible? And if we associate with them, can we change them? Who gives us that power?

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

I met Amy Winehouse a few times and she was always funny, charming and self-deprecating - just a delight to be around.

People live, work, walk, play, shop, study, and eat with other people. There are few desert dwellers who live alone without depending in some way on people.

When people feel they're getting to speak into what's being preached, there is high built-in motivation to participate.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.