Richard Dawson Quotes

I hug employees all the time. I'm a huge contact person. Touch is an extremely important part of the human condition.

Sex is really only touch, the closest of all touch. And it's touch we're afraid of.

One of the ways we interact with other human beings and form social bonds is through touch, and probably most of us are not aware of the extreme importance of touch.

The power of being in the physical presence of another person delivers real benefits.

I love touching. I always touch people.

Touch is incredibly important as part of the human experience. Our ancestors relied on human touch to form and strengthen bonds with each other. Touch can accelerate a feeling of connection and releases hormones in our body that engender trust and build connection.

This may be a bit of a broad statement, but I don't think there's anyone that I've met that I haven't created a bit of a deep relationship with. It's a really lovely thing to create a relation with people that might not anticipate that closeness. And that's kind of the light of my life, getting to be close to people.

Humans need to touch each other. We need to look at each other… We are human creatures, meant to be linked… So, yes, it's a gift for me to be able to look at somebody that I know or don't know, that I love or maybe not love, and to be able to connect.

We’re creatures of contact regardless of whether/ we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together.

I remind myself that I'm always more satisfied by human interaction than by a digital connection.

In good relationships, we are happy to grow as the other person becomes part of us and who we are.

The care and concern of one human being for another is a peculiar 'commodity.' It can't be stockpiled. It becomes degraded through trade. It isn't delivered by machines. Its quality rests entirely on the attention paid by one person to another. Even to speak of reducing the time involved is to misunderstand its value.

I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.

Touch is one of the most intuitive things in the world.

Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.

Physical contact is a human necessity.

I'm constantly being influenced by the soul that's directly in front of me.

A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.

I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene.

My only self-confidence and satisfaction comes from the people that I do meet; I have fondness for people. I mean, I like to hug. And I also like to be hugged.

Conflict is easy because we've all had conflict, but to really bond with someone and to have a genuine connection, it needs to come from a place by knowing them.

Can we ever really know anyone well? Let's just say we often found ourselves in each other's company and neither of us minded.

The physicality of a real relationship - one that encompasses mind, body and soul - ultimately makes it more fulfilling and powerful than any virtual relationship ever could be.

I'm a very physical person. I hug people more so than shake hands.

What do people want? Contact. People want to be able to see you and touch you. Are you real?