Walker Percy Quotes

Looking into another person's eyes for an extended period of time proved to be a powerful thing. And if you don't believe me, try it yourself.

I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes. Eyes are so important. Until they start melon-balling eyes out, I won't be able to get to know someone another way.

Yes, people do come across the street to say hi, but as they approach and get near, my perception of space begins to dissolve, and a new interest takes over that is primarily emotional, and with it comes a desire to touch, which may be a human interest, but not the interest of my work.

When humans look at each other and look long enough into their eyes, some people are totally uncomfortable with that. I am not.

As a species, the look of another of our species into our eyes has a great power. It can mean a lot of different things: aggression, love.

Would that be dangerous, to not look while being looked at?

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

Part of the fun of life is interacting with people and not knowing what the truth is inside. Letting them reveal that to you is what binds you to people.

It is quite unsettling looking into someone's eyes, especially when you aren't used to it.

I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another.

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

After my performance 'The Artist is Present (2010)' at MoMA in New York, many scientists became interested in why so many people who sat across from me began to cry. I was incredibly moved by this experience also, and was very curious to know what happens in our brains when we spend time not talking, just looking at one another.

You've probably noticed how when someone says hello or smiles at you, your automatic reaction is to say hello or smile back.

In London, people don't make eye contact; it's almost too provocative.

The eyes are so telling. That's how you engage with people and bond with them. I love direct, strong eye contact.

I'm interested in interpersonal space.

I've always really been interested in observing people's postures, the way they speak with their hands, the way they communicate things with their body language.

The thing is, I'm used to handshakes. Every time someone comes for a hug, I'm very confused. I'm told that I give out the worst hugs, too.

The one thing that robots really find difficult to do is to look someone in the eye and have a sense of how they're feeling. We should be teaching that in schools.

Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.

But it has been my experience that the risks are faroutweighed by the rewards, chief of which is when you speak to strangers as though they are friends, more often than not, if only for as long as the encounter lasts, they become friends, and if in the process they also think of you as a little peculiar, who cares?

When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.

The trick is not to make eye contact. They don't charge if you don't make eye contact.

Your eyes make me shy

The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.