Human Interaction Quotes

Technology is best when it brings people together.

As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he's too long over his dinner; another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end.

The way you see people is the way you treat them.

Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

Just as I need other human beings in order to learn from them, so I also need their trust. If we aren't aware of that, if we fail to take it to heart and instead betray other people's trust, things will go badly with us.

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

I think it's pathetic that women and men treat each other worse than we treat our pets. It's love or hate.

What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party.

Language allows one to crack the code of culture

Each film has taught me something new - be it about myself, my craft, my profession, people.

Faces are the most interesting things we see; other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we go inside them - is the face. It tells all.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.

Anyday, one can walk down the street in a big city and see a thousand people. Any photographer can photograph these people - but very few photographers can make their prints not only reproductions of the people taken, but a comment upon them - or more, a comment upon their lives - or more still, a comment upon the social order that creates these lives.

I walk around a lot. People come up to me and say 'Hi,' but not that often. I mean, I get it plenty often, but sometimes I wish they'd come up to me more! I mean, I'm just a regular guy.

Humans are fascinated with communication. I was always drawn to words and stories, staying in touch with your feelings and being open to what's around you.

Orlando's a part of me. The next guy's a part of me. And the next guy's a part of me. That's all I'm trying to do, is tell cool stories that people can relate to.

Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose adjustment so that it may be endurable is an extraordinarily troublesome matter.

I thought about the bigger picture of my life, and about the people—and particularly the guys—I would encounter during my lifetime. How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed … connection?

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.