A Quote by Clifford Stoll

Electronic communication is an instantaneous and illusory contact that creates a sense of intimacy without the emotional investment that leads to close friendships.

Clifford Stoll

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Clifford Stoll
American - Author
Born: June 4, 1950

A human moment is a term I invented to distinguish in-person communication from electronic. Human moments are exponentially more powerful than electronic ones. I mean face-to-face, in-person contact and communication. I have identified several modern paradoxes and the first is that, for various reasons, we have grown electronically superconnected but we have simultaneously grown emotionally disconnected from each other.

Edward Hallowell

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Rollo May

The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.

Anais Nin

Kitsch offers instantaneous emotional gratification without intellectual effort, without the requirement of distance, wihtout sublimation.

Walter Benjamin

I know that lack of contact creates more lack of contact, and contact creates more contact, or at least an ability to talk to with each other.

Gloria Steinem

Electronic communication makes possible what has previously been excluded: namely, active, simultaneous and reciprocal contact between individuals across all frontiers constituted by countries, religions and continents.

Ulrich Beck

People who have at least three or four very close friendships are healthier, have higher wellbeing, and are more engaged in their jobs. But the absence of any close friendships can lead to boredom, loneliness, and depression.

Tom Rath

I have to say, taking photographs is such an instantaneous act. The recognition and the acting on the recognition, depending on your equipment, is close to instantaneous.

Joel Meyerowitz

In the collaborative process, you create a real intimacy; everybody ends up sharing personal stories and personal observations and their philosophies, their psychological side. By the time you get to set, it just creates such a sense of trust and intimacy between the director and the actors. It's really, really great.

Lynn Shelton

Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete.

Frederick Lenz

That's the power of television. You come into people's homes every week, and that creates a familiarity and a false sense of intimacy.

Jason Priestley

A new world of complex relationships and feelings opens up when the peer group takes its place alongside the family as the emotional focus of the child's life. Early peer relationships contribute significantly to the child's ability to participate in a group (and in that sense, society), deal with competition and disappointment, enjoy the intimacy of friendships, and intuitively understand social relationships as they play out at school, in the neighborhood, and later in the workplace and adult family.

Stanley Greenspan

I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.

Judd Nelson

Physical intimacy isn’t and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy.

John Green

How many films are there about friendships between teenagers? And how many projects are there dealing with friendships among adults? True friendships - really dealing with the intimacy behind what happened then, and how long you've known each other, and the wounds that haven't healed. That's what [About Alex] film is about.

Nate Parker

Physical intimacy is easy. Emotional intimacy is hard.

Hannah Simone

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