Human Contact Quotes
34 quotes by 33 authors
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Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're…
— Martha Beck
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Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasé or focused on your crotch while jabbering…
— Anneli Rufus
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If you feel a great loneliness and a deep longing for human contact, you have to be extremely discerning...and ask yourself whether this situation is…
— Henri Nouwen
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All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and so we find…
— John D. Barrow
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My intention always has been to arrive at human contact without enforcing authority. A musician, after all, is not a mili- tary officer. What matters…
— Carlo Maria Giulini
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There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.
— Marie-Louise von Franz
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If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.
— Robert McKee
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Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way…
— Yvon Chouinard
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It is important always to remember that virtual contact cannot and must not take the place of direct human contact with people at every level…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Hugs are part of everybody life for me. Hug all sorts of people - I don't worry about it looking unmanly or whatever. I think…
— A J McLean
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My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family,…
— Robin Williams
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I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact.
— Doris Lessing
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America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you…
— D. H. Lawrence
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A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.
— Ugo Betti
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It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Long-haul trucking. Just roaming the country, alone, with audiobooks and podcasts, sleeping in the back of the cab, showering at gas stations at 4 a.m.,…
— Mat Johnson
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I like big casts. The experience of working together, that human contact - those are my roots, professionally.
— Chris Noth
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I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important.
— Giovanni Ribisi
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The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of tillage, or agriculture,…
— George Edward Woodberry
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