Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes

In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.

If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.

I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.

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

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

When two people are paying close attention to each other, check out the others in the group and see who's observing. Human dynamics are amazing, but so much that you might learn is subconscious interplay.

One thing about the fantasy dinner party idea that no one considers is whether these people are going to get on. I would say John McEnroe and Ian McEwan, but what would they have to say to each other?

I was obsessed with learning about social behaviors. I remember explaining to my mom that kids on my soccer team were fighting because of dyads and triads.

I assume that the proper study of interaction is not the individual and his psychology, but rather the syntactical relations among the acts of different persons mutually present to another.

I would rather be seated between any two women than any two men at a dinner party.

no one in a group of three is the same person he (she, it) is in a group of two. No more than he is the same in a group of two as he is alone.

Nothing will ruin an interesting intelligent argument more quickly than the arrival of a pretty girl.

Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder, the concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women's voices?

Men mixing with women is like fire mixing with wood.

Girls are not accustomed to jockeying for status in an obvious way; they are more concerned that they be liked.

Man is a social animal formed to please in society.

Attention gets you the opposite sex sometimes.

Two is company; three is fifty bucks.

I work alone. Humans are incredible, because when you come alone, they will receive you, they accept you, they protect you, they give you all things that you need, and they teach you all things you must know. When you come with two persons or three persons, you have a group in front of them. They don't discuss with the new persons what is important to them.

Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family

You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.

But many, many stories were told; from what could be gathered, all fifty of the mine's inhabitants had reacted on each other, two by two, as in combinatorial analysis, that is to say, everyone with all the others, and especially every man with all the women, old maids or married, and every woman with all the men. All I had to do was to select two names at random, better if different sex, and ask a third person, "What happened with those two?" and lo and behold, a splendid story was unfolded for me, since everyone knew the story of everyone else.

The reason they're called the opposite sex is because every time you think you have your wife fooled - it's just the opposite!

People [are] as much a source of entertainment as they [are] a source of irritation. it keep[s] things balanced.

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.