#Human Interaction Quotes

“As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am, as a rule, far more interested in people than they are in me -- But it makes me a nuisance, I know: only an innocent nuisance.”

“I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part one strikes on, I mean.”

“Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.”

“There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas.”

“Tweets? That stuff kills conversation. And people taking pictures with their phone or recording you, sometimes surreptitiously, is creepy. They come up and just start talking to you, and you can see the red light on their phone.”

“Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.”

“Sometimes there would be someone else out there, someone she didn't know, but when they saw each other each would nod, as if making a secret pact. No question, no small talk..agreed”

“The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.”

“I find it, as ever, very unprofitable to have much to do with men. It is sowing the wind, but not reaping even the whirlwind; onlyreaping an unprofitable calm and stagnation. Our conversation is a smooth, and civil, and never-ending speculation merely.”

“We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.”

“The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.”

“I don't mind looking to the camera -​ it's people that throw me.”

“You wouldn't know it, from some of the things I've said over the years, but I like people. I do. I like people, but I like them in short bursts. I don't like people for extended periods of time. I'm all right with them for a little while, but once you get up past around... a minute, minute and a half, I gotta get the fuck out of there.”

“Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.”