Erving Goffman Quotes

When persons are present to one another they can function not merely as physical instruments but also as communicative ones. This possibility, no less than the physical one, is fateful for everyone concerned and in every society appears to come under strict normative regulation, giving rise to a kind of communication traffic order.

Erving Goffman

• Giving
• Kind
• Communication
• Possibility
• Concerned
• Function
• Instruments

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• I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Kind
  • Situation
  • Just

• To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

  

  Ouida
  • Kind
  • Always
  • Innocence

• If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Wisdom

• If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Experience
  • Giving
  • Faith

• We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • Children
  • Trying

• I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Fight

• There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • World
  • Energy
  • Kind

• Capsizes kind of go hand in hand with 49er racing. I've had four to five capsizes in races and still won the event. It's just the nature of this type of sailing.

  

  Nathan Outteridge
  • Nature
  • Kind
  • Hand

• A friend told me about a Nike competition, where they give you one minute to do tricks with a basketball. I wasn't going to go, but they were giving away free sneakers. I ended up coming in second place.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Up
  • Free
  • Giving

• Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • People
  • Remember
  • Giving

• I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Kind

• Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Kind
  • Alien
  • Test

• The type of thing that one person would get mad at, another person would laugh at, is a good kind of zone to be in.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Good
  • Kind
  • Mad

• As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Up
  • Different
  • Kind

• School was just kind of something where it was like, 'Um, I guess I should get my bachelor's.' My mind is always geared towards the practical.

  

  Verite
  • Mind
  • School
  • Kind

• Example is not the main thing. It is the only thing. That is, if the one giving the example is not saying to himself, 'Behold I am giving an example.' That spoils it. Anyone thinking of the example he will give to others has lost his simplicity. Only as a man has simplicity can his example influence others.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Thinking
  • Giving
  • Lost

• As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Virtue
  • Concerned
  • Prefer

• Right up until today Pollock her husband and famous painter; died Aug. 1956 well takes a lot of mine time.. ..and while you ask 'How much did it take out of me as a creative artist', I ask simultaneously, 'What did it give?' It is a two-way affair at all times. I would give anything to have someone giving me what I was able to give Pollock.

  

  Lee Krasner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Today

• At the end of the day, I know that I make my living by dressing up, fooling around, playing pranks and giving people a good time. I am enjoying the ride.

  

  Cyrus Broacha
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• And if you stop and think about it you won't believe it's true: That all the love you've been giving has all been meant for you.

  

  Justin Hayward The Moody Blues
  • Believe
  • True
  • Giving

• There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not losing its infinity. If this meeting is dissolved, then things become unreal.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Ideas
  • Movement
  • Infinity

• When we behold the face of God, all memories of pain and suffering will vanish. Our souls shall be totally healed.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Pain
  • Suffering

• Oliver: You turned me down. So why, I wonder, did you decide Amelie would be a better choice? Claire: She smells better. And she made me cookies.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Why
  • She
  • Wonder

• When persons are present to one another they can function not merely as physical instruments but also as communicative ones. This possibility, no less than the physical one, is fateful for everyone concerned and in every society appears to come under strict normative regulation, giving rise to a kind of communication traffic order.

  

  Erving Goffman
  • Giving
  • Kind
  • Communication