Quotes About Social Interaction

#1. Enjoyable social interaction, community and laughter has a healing effect on the mind and body.

Bryant McGill

#2. Experience has tutored me well that most will lie or cheat to get the better hand. It's why I prefer solitude to social interaction.
- Bethany

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#3. Social media and the Internet haven't changed our capacity for social interaction any more than the Internet has changed our ability to be in love or our basic propensity to violence, because those are such fundamental human attributes.

Nicholas A. Christakis

#4. They say sociopaths are dangerous because they know the subtleties of social interaction better than most people and they use this knowledge to use and exploit people. Well, it seems to me people with Asperger's are the opposite of sociopaths.

Alexei Maxim Russell

#5. However, I could no longer rely on genuine emotion to generate facial expressions, and when you have to spend every social interaction consciously manipulating your face into shapes that are only approximately the right ones, alienating people is inevitable.

Allie Brosh

#6. Although I'm perceived as very optimistic and upbeat, it comes out of being the opposite of that - feeling isolated or lonely, looking for meaning and the kinds of things that ease that suffering in life, and finding them in large-scale social interaction, like theater and games.

Jane McGonigal

#7. I was totally clueless about social interaction, and completely scared of girls. All I knew was that music was going to make girls fall in love with me.

Rob Sheffield

#8. Being gay is like taking a crash course in human nature," he says. "Your first real glimpse at the dirty underbelly of routine social interaction. A lesser person, " he offers with a wry grin, "Might well become one bitter fuck.

Jonathan Tropper

#9. Meaning is made in conversation, reality is created in communication, and knowledge is generated through social interaction ... Language is the vehicle through which we create our understanding of the world.

Diana Whitney

#10. Does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction

Tao Lin

#11. I remember seeing this video for the first time in college - miserable, half-drunk on Keystone Light, a Camel Light smoldering in my mouth, about to desperately tap-dance my way through another social interaction - and saying out loud: "I fucking *get* you, Bee Girl.

Dave Holmes

#12. You know you've got a problem when baristas greet you by name. You know you've got another problem when it's the warmest social interaction of your day.

Lee Nichols

#13. Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction.

Guy Kawasaki

#14. People drive everywhere in L.A., so you get very little human interaction ... but N.Y. and Chicago are like London ... L.A. lacks the social interaction.

Seal

#15. Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'.

Brenda Laurel

#16. I feel greatful, though, that Sabin was my home base tonight. He let me come back to him as often as I needed to ground myself. When the noise was too much or the social interaction felt overwhelming, he remained my rock.

Jessica Park

#17. A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

Daniel Dennett

#18. Children need time to become themselves--through play and social interaction. If you overwhelm a child with stuff--with choices and pseudochoices--before they are ready, they will only know one emotional gesture: More!

Kim John Payne

#19. I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, 'cause they were cooler; they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!

John Hughes

#20. We are relational creatures. All humans live in community and most people seek social interaction. In western culture, isolation is seen as one of the most stringent of punishments. Even criminals do not aspire to solitary confinement.

Gary Chapman

#21. I think we've built a bit of a culture and a market around people who are open and seek out that social interaction.

Logan Green

#22. Reality" is defined not as something that exists "out there" for the scientist or anyone else to discover but as a social construction that emerges from and is sustained by social interaction.

Peter Conrad

#23. From what I've found a lot of people on Facebook are desperate for recognition and social interaction. They want me to find them, to gaze into their lives and notice them. PAY ATTENTION.

Peter Jelen

#24. Unfortunately, love and compassion have been omitted from too many spheres of social interaction for too long. Usually confined to family and home, their practice in public life is considered impractical, even naive. This is tragic.

Dalai Lama

#25. People are more likely to remember the great social interaction they had with a colleague than the great meeting they both attended.

Ron Garan

#26. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait.

Gavin De Becker

#27. We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings.

Chuck Palahniuk

#28. Appearing to pay attention when someone is speaking is one of the cornerstones of real social interaction.

Judith Martin

#29. I was never a games night guy, but at some point, social interaction starts to freak me out. So when there's a point, it's easier for me to see the people I love and hang out and try to have fun.

Joss Whedon

#30. I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never had any religious training or background. It was never a part of our social interaction.

Donald Johanson

#31. When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.

Jesse Eisenberg

#32. When you try to cool down hot emotions, what tends to happen is that you end up either repressing them or losing them altogether. Neither is desirable. Without emotion, much social interaction loses its meaning or changes for the worse.

Julian Baggini

#33. Audience engagement is critical to the survival of your brand; if you don't engage them you endanger your brand. It's social interaction.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#34. Through our evolution, we're so specialized for social interaction. So, if you can really design robots that can interact with people, in this very natural, interpersonal way, I think that would be great. You wouldn't have to have people read manuals, in order to operate them.

Cynthia Breazeal

#35. As to the future, the only certainty is that the Internet will encounter new technical and social challenges. If the Internet is to continue as an innovative means of collaboration, discovery, and social interaction, it will need to draw on its legacy of adaptability and participatory design.

Janet Abbate

#36. but not subjecting him to the tiresome demands of polite social interaction.

Neal Stephenson

#37. The techniques of artificial intelligence are to the mind what bureaucracy is to human social interaction.

Terry Winograd

#38. The Bible is a study guide for social interaction.

Prince

#39. Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

Keith Henson

#40. Bedford definitely stands out as a community that's designed to appease to a broader range of budgets and lifestyles. The opportunity for a diverse neighborhood that encourages community activity and social interaction is what we feel makes Bedford a model community in this industry.

John Myers

#41. 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

#42. I wasn't a nerd, mind you, but I'd spent a lot of my youth studying Epics, so I'd had limited experience with social interaction. I mixed with ordinary people about the same way that a bucket of paint mixed with a bag of gerbils.

Brandon Sanderson

#43. I went into the world confident my tea training would open many doors. And I did particularly well with the Irish and fellow Nova Scotians over 60. But this only got me so far. It took a long time to cultivate the tricks of easy social interaction.

Lynn Coady

#44. The origin of the human condition is best explained by the natural selection for social interaction - the inherited propensities to communicate, recognize, evaluate, bond, cooperate, compete, and from all these the deep warm pleasure of belonging to your own special group.

Edward O. Wilson

#45. A placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomised trial of boys with autism found that two to three servings of cruciferous vegetables a day improves social interaction, abnormal behaviour and verbal communication - within a matter of weeks.

Michael Greger

#46. What they do not realize - and what you must realize - is that manipulating others is something that all people do. In fact, manipulation is at the core of our social interaction.

Brandon Sanderson

#47. People are social beings and want interaction and social learning is the primary form of learning, just as word of mouth advertising is the highest form of advertising.

Stephen Covey

#48. Right and wrong applies to internet interaction.

David Chiles

#49. You are part of a complex social network that changes your biology with every interaction, and which your actions can change

David Eagleman

#50. For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

Norah Jones

#51. One of the most interesting results was part of a study my students and I conducted dealing with status in email correspondence. Basically, we discovered that in any interaction, the person with the higher status uses I-words less (yes, less) than people who are low in status.

James W. Pennebaker

#52. Fortunately, the Internet is a really angry place filled with really angry people, many of whom come positively unglued when not subject to the social consequences of face-to-face interaction.

Dave Tomar

#53. disembedding" as "the 'lifting out' of social relations from local contexts of interaction and their restructuring across indefinite spans of time-space

Anonymous

#54. I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.

Ian Hacking

#55. The entertainment world, television, movies, social media, YouTube stuff, we're so bombarded with so much imagery and such a great sense of inhumanity, and there is a coarseness, a coarsening of interaction.

Steven Bochco

#56. Under the spell of alcohol your differences recede.

Jay McInerney

#57. Technologies that change society are technologies that change interactions between people

Cesar Hidalgo

#58. Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.

Lynn Coady

#59. The future success of online social networking sites as an advertising medium depends on its acceptance as an advertising vehicle that can deliver a message to a micro-target in a manner that will be well received and that increases the likelihood of interaction.

Mary Louise Kelly

#60. Being on Facebook too much in a row is like playing chess in a black hole. You never know if the next move will lead you to a checkmate or a mate checked.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#61. In principle, every social situation involves strategic interaction among the participants.

John Harsanyi

#62. Human beings are social creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like company, and not just in the obvious sense that we each depend on others. We are social in a more elemental way: simply to exist as a normal human being requires interaction with other people.

Atul Gawande

#63. But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

Thom Mayne

#64. Introverts don't like small talk conversation, but they typically don't mind writing. The more people can "see" you on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or a blog, the more they will feel like they know you, even though you don't have one-on-one interaction with them.

Thom S. Rainer

#65. How then did it work out, this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it was liking one felt, or disliking?

Virginia Woolf

#66. Love is an attachment which develops through human interaction.

Auliq Ice

#67. Social media is an amazing tool, but it's really the face-to-face interaction that makes a long-term impact.

Felicia Day

#68. Regardless of what the naysayers believe about human interaction and social media, the data show us that the abundance of technology is actually increasing the abundance of happiness all over the world.

Peter Diamandis

#69. If no one knew them well enough to trust them, then no one was going to speak with them, then they would never get the information that would have warned them to be cautious.

T.K. Naliaka