Quotes about connections
Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365
Your conversations are the beginning of your connections be careful of your communications. Talk politely to strangers you have no knowledge about how many of them will become your close friends forever!
Blaise Pascal -
The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.
Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Watchwords
You have many gifts some will help you to connect the right people while others help you to get to the right places. But it takes your dominant gifts for you to be able to take the lead!
Jacob Lund Fisker - Early Retirement Extreme: A Philosphical and Practical Guide to Financial Independence
Any connection with nature and most connections with technology are lost. There's a belief that nature is irrelevant and that anything can be solved using the current methods--now technology previously magic or praying.
Dan Chaon - Stay Awake
This is one of those things that you can never explain to anyone that's what I want to explain - one of those free-association moments with connections that dissolve when you start to try to put them into words.
Jamila Woods -
When I started writing poetry, it was always in very hip-hop influenced spaces: Someone would teach a Nas song side-by-side with a Gwendolyn Brooks poem, and we'd talk about the connections between those things.
Adam Grant -
From a relationship perspective, givers build deeper and broader connections.
Patrick Wilson -
Just as we may, through an appalled realization that we were unaware of what was going on in the mind of one we thought we knew, come to wonder how we ever know what another person is thinking or feeling, so too we may, having on some occasion wanted badly to understand and having clearly failed, come to wonder how we ever manage to understand, and how we know that we have succeeded.
Dean Koontz - Deeply Odd
Not everything that happens during the day is an open portending a good or evil development in the future, but everything has meaning to one degree or another, for the world is an ever-weaving tapestry from which no thread can be pulled without destroying the integrity of the cloth. The breadth of Creation makes it impossible for us to step back far enough to see the story that the tapestry tells; the intricacy of it, from the macro to the micro to the subatomic, make sit impossible for us to co
Shannon L. Alder -
Are we not all actors playing parts in another person's play?
John Muir -
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.
Dean Koontz - Brother Odd
Quantum theory tells us, Mr. Thomas, that every point in the universe is intimately connected to every other point, regardless of apparent distance. In some mysterious way, any point on a planet in a distant galaxy is as close to me as you are.
Shannon L. Alder -
A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence.
Serina Hartwell -
Life is made of connections. Who knows why fate throws things in our direction, but one thing's for sure, new things are there to offer value to our lives and teach us something new about ourselves. It's what makes life exciting.
Shannon L. Alder -
Grace will meet you in the valley, and her song will carry you home on the wind to another sky filled with ethereal beauty unfolding and love everlasting.
Olivia Sudjic - Sympathy
Though I did not know her exact address, that she appeared to live almost within breathing distance of Robin, and that I lived with him, and that her pictures showed that she was now dating the mysterious Rupert Hunter, our despotic mothers, our absent fathers, the borders we had both crossed, all our many parallels and connections at every point, could not be chance. I saw it as evidence of the hidden connections between things, an all-powerful algorithm that sifted through chaos, singling out
Simon Pegg - Nerd Do Well
We might not know we are seeking people who best enrich our lives, but somehow on a deep subconscious level we absolutely are. Whether the bond is temporary or permanent, whether it succeeds or fails, fate is simply a configuration of choices that combine with others to shape the relationships that surround us. We cannot choose our family, but we can choose our friends, and we sometimes, before we even meet them.
Simon Pegg - Nerd Do Well
Plainly it isn't an exact science, despite it being a complex interaction of micro-decisions and corresponding thought; perhaps it doesn't always work and we pass by some potential soulmates like the proverbial ships in the night, never quite connecting. Then again, perhaps the system is tenacious and continues to run like a computer program on infinite loop, so that if at first you don't meet, you are drawn back together for another try.
Simon Pegg - Nerd Do Well
If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to make? What life changing relationships or passionate and lasting love affairs are lost to chance?
Shannon L. Alder -
Some people look for the obvious and make decisions based on that. However, sensitive people look for the subtle things in life. They observe what is missed, overlooked and rarely observed by others. They dwell at a deeper level of perception that clings to signs, body language and what is left unspoken. They are observers that will trust their instinct first over any fact or well delivered speech.
Shannon L. Alder -
You will never say goodbye to the past, until you understand why the flashbacks haunt you.
Zack Love - Stories and Scripts: an Anthology
...And on my fourth morning in Naples, I woke up alone. There was a note on the table with the breakfast that Cinzia had quietly prepared for me. It read, "It could never be. But that's why it will always be - perfectly divine. Cinzia" City Solipsism: A Short Story
Alicen Grey -
We never stopped being each other.
Emma Thompson - The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film
Our first point of discussion is the hunt. (...) My idea is to start the film with an image of the vixen locked out of her lair which has been plugged up. Her terror as she's pursued across the country. This is a big deal. It means training a fox from birth or dressing up a dog to look like a fox. Or hiring David Attenbrorough, who probably knows a few foxes well enough to ask a favour.
Pam Jones - The Cost of Paper: Volume Three
One would think, however, that sharing a name might offer a thin string of connection. It was always a thrill to meet someone who had the same name as you, and unlike a lot of things, this was a thrill that never quite faded.
Itzik Amiel - The Attention Switch
People Bond when they are having fun
Henna Inam - & Lead
Our imperfections are what create authentic connections with one another.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -
True sincerity works more than a magnet. It attracts, bond and take people farther far better than mere action and words!
Niklas Zennstrom -
With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense.
Bob Taft -
Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.
Werner Heisenberg -
Whoever dedicates his life to searching out particular connections of nature will spontaneously be confronted with the question how they harmoniously fit into the whole.
Kristina McMorris -
On occasion, I like to reread my grandfather's letters. While leafing through them, I'm saddened by what is being lost in modern communication. Soul-baring sentimentality isn't typically poured into text messages, tweets and emails. All too often, personal connections are brushed aside for the sake of convenience in a fast-paced world.
Marcia J. Bates -
We know that we are continually subjected to a huge range of sensory inputs and internal experiences of sensations and thoughts. In fact, almost anything existing in our universe, that can come into human and other animals' purview, can be experienced as information - a bird call, our friend's 'hello,' the rock we trip over, the intuition we have about the honesty of someone we are talking to, a book we read.
Maggie Stiefvater - The Dream Thieves
Being the Magician isn't about being powerful when you have things and useless when you don't," Persephone said."The Magician sees what is out there and finds connections. The Magician can make anything magical.
Alexander McCall Smith - The Novel Habits of Happiness
She knew that she had a tendency to allow her mind to wander, but surely that's what made the world interesting. One thought led to another, one memory triggered another. How dull it would be, she thought, not to be reminded of the interconnectedness of everything, how dull for the present not to evoke the past, for here not to imply there.
Ryan Lilly - #Networking is people looking for people looking for people
The greatest irony is that people with Rolodexes are no longer LinkedIn. And if that pun doesn't make sense, don’t ask anyone in your Rolodex to explain it.
Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream
Be a good listener. With rapt attention, let every communication or conversation you have with your mentor, friends or even strangers be well understood.
Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream
Avoid the use of abusive words in communications that may switch off the attention of your mentor and your customers away.
Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream
Connect with people who are going where you are going. Don’t hate people. The person you may need later may be likened to the bridge you have destroyed after crossing it. You’ll need that bridge when returning.
Deborah Day - BE HAPPY NOW!
Connecting with those you know love, like and appreciate you restores the spirit and give you energy to keep moving forward in this life.
Sage Canny -
The brain cannot learn without wondering, listening, and making connections while your myelin part of your brain develops and grows" ― Sage Canny
Timothy O'Grady - Children of Las Vegas: True Stories of Growing up in the World's Playground
So much of the theatrical can leave you with a yearning for the real. The real is suddenly and starkly there right at the city’s edge and extends for thousands of square miles of desert and mountain and canyon with which human beings can do almost nothing profitable other than to leave it be and just look at it.
Timothy O'Grady - Children of Las Vegas: True Stories of Growing up in the World's Playground
But I came to see that Las Vegas is not a freak but is, instead, deeply integrated with the rest of the country, and the world beyond. It is symptom, mirror, metaphor.
Jane Espenson -
DeWitt: Loneliness leads to nothing good, only detachment. And sometimes the people who most need to reach out are the people least capable of it.
Tim Tebow -
I want to use my connections with coaches, players, celebrities, whomever, and if I can take that friendship and use it to help someone else, I'm going to take advantage of that. I'm not going to apologize for that.
E. M. Forster -
Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
Edward Snowden -
That's the beauty of the Internet is that we're no longer tied to our communities by physical connections.
Adrienne Rich -
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
Marquis de Sade -
Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
Jerry Saltz -
Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm.
Moby -
At the risk of sounding pedestrian, I'll be completely honest: the first thing I do in the morning is check Google News, partially because it seems sort of random and unbiased and partially because I tend to stay in hotels that don't necessarily have the fastest Internet connections.
Seth Godin -
The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
Donald Barthelme - Flying to America: 45 More Stories
There is no moment that exceeds in beauty that moment when one looks at a woman and finds that she is looking at you in the same way that you are looking at her. The moment in which she bestows that look that says, "Proceed with your evil plan, sumbitch." The initial smash on glance. The, the drawing near. This takes a long time, it seems like months, although only minutes pass, in fact. Languor is the word that describes this part of the process. Your persona floats toward her persona, over the
Daniel Handler - We Are Pirates
Phil Needle stood in the parking lot, suddenly grasping that this was so, that nothing is lost in a world utterly mapped, that nothing is rogue with everything cross-pollinated, as the shouts on the beach lured him across the street to the sand.
Tom Robbins - Skinny Legs and All
There are landscapes in which we feel above us not sky but space. Something larger, deeper than sky is sensed, is seen, although in such settings the sky itself is invariably immense. There is a place between the cerebrum and the stars where sky stops and space commences, and should we find ourselves on a particular prairie or mountaintop at a particular hour, our relationship with sky thins and loosens while our connection to space becomes solid as bone.
Shannon L. Alder -
It is not what they say, but the reaction that tells you everything you need to know.
Wendell Berry - The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes all the local things that are connected by the larger, ultimately mysterious form of the Creation. In speaking of community, then, we are speaking of a complex connection not only among human beings or between humans and their homeland but also between human economy and nature, between forest or prairie and field or orchard, and between troublesome cr
Tracey Bond -
It's a toxic world out there folks, use caution when connecting online & offline. There's a darker side to going viral with success. My expert advice is that people innoculate their understanding with plenty of time-tested social research specifically regarding the authentic social, emotional intelligence and mature personality values of any circle. Look beyond their talk, uncover their stalk. If the mind is darkened with character disEASE, the behavior will symptomatically follow...those whose
Ryan Lilly - #Networking is people looking for people looking for people
A brand precedes, parallels, and leaves a path behind. What your brand will say, is saying, and has said matters more the deeper we go into the globalized, digitized, connection economy.
Joshua Ferris - To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
I was already at one remove before the Internet came along. I need another remove? Now I have to spend the time that I'm not doing the thing they're doing reading about them doing it? Streaming the clips of them doing it, commenting on how lucky they are to be doing all those things, liking and digging and bookmarking and posting and tweeting all those things, and feeling more disconnected than ever? Where does this idea of greater connection come from? I've never in my life felt more disconnect
Michele Jennae -
Social Media isn't about reach as much as it is about "reach out".
Beth Ramsay - #Networking is people looking for people looking for people
It’s great to spend time at a networking event with someone you know and like. But that’s not what you’re there for. Your goal is to expand your network by meeting new people.
Michele L. Rivera - Something in Return
In certain companyOften the uninvitedWe reactWe transform one another
Gregory Galloway - The 39 Deaths of Adam Strand
That's the point of it, to have those connections, as painful as they are, as much worry as they might cause; they give back in strength and comfort and joy, believe it or not, and the more connections you make, the happier you are, the more point there is to getting up and getting through the day.
Ryan Lilly - #Networking is people looking for people looking for people
The most honorable part of a network are the hubs, not the nodes that lead to nowhere.
Andrew James Pritchard - To Revolt Is a People's Right
-Let us celebrate the joy and sorrow, Sidip suddenly recited, -the wonder and mystery of all we see, so that we might live and learn as we were meant to. They say of stardust we are formed, that the ocean flows through our veins, and our thoughts are of quantum particles strung together by slender threads of charged ions. Therefore all things are connected, all things have spirit, you, me, the animals, plants, rocks, the oceans, planets, stars and the whole universe, these quantum particles are
David Amerland - Build Business and Communica
Communication without a specific focus is just noise. It achieves little beyond taking time and energy.
Charles Emmerson - 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War
Nationalist (forces around the world) could now more readily communicate and share their grievances, viewing themselves as similar groups, engaged in a common struggle for greater autonomy against control exerted from London or Paris.
Ron Suskind - A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League
Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush of warmth and euphoria puts you on a path to ruin.
Shannon L. Alder -
When you invite people to share in your miracle, you create future allies during rough weather.
Federico Chini - The Sea Of Forgotten Memories
People are like chains, the closer they are, the stronger they become.
Shannon L. Alder -
No connection can ever be broken if love holds tight at both ends.
Erik Pevernagie -
When our mental functioning is whittling away and our mind becomes a lame duck, perception does not form the context anymore and all connections on the social chessboard are conked out. Only patience and endurance may draw us out of the quagmire of numbness and allow us to tear open the cloudy screen that is hiding our points of ‘interest’ and ‘attention’, so long as we focus on the ‘singular moments’ and the ‘appealing details’ in our life. Awareness can help us shape a comprehensive picture fo
Shannon L. Alder -
Insanity is starting over a million times, expecting to feel the spark you never did the first time.
Shannon L. Alder -
A woman or man of value doesn’t love you because of what he or she wants you to be or do for them. He or she loves you because your combined souls understand one another, complements each other, and make sense above any other person in this world. You each share a part of their soul's mirror and see each other’s light reflected in it clearly. You can easily speak from the heart and feel safe doing so. Both of you have been traveling a parallel road your entire life. Without each other's presence
Jude Morgan - Indiscretion
Without money and without connections- I have failed you!
Amaka Imani Nkosazana - Heart Crush
Believe God for something today. Prayer is the key to connecting with God and allowing Him to speak to your spirit. Open your heart and free your mind.
Murasaki Shikibu -
i wish you could understand me, but of course it is not the way of this world that we are ever completely understood.
Ryan Lilly - #Networking is people looking for people looking for people
Never underestimate the collective strength of your weakest connections.
Karen Kimsey-House - Co-Active Leadership: Five Ways to Lead
When someone is walking beside us, we have more courage to walk into the unknown and to risk the dark and messy places in our journey.
Shannon L. Alder -
Love of God and people will pave roads where there once were none.
Shannon L. Alder -
They say instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of clichés, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising. However, who has not hung on a scripture, a quote, a statement, only to stumble upon the key phrase that brought all things to a turning point? The greatest sermons and speeches were pieced together by illuminating thoughts that powered men to surpass their own commonness. It is the sparkling magic of letters forming
Deborah Day -
Positive energy is attracted to positive energy.
Milena Michiko Flašar - I Called Him Necktie
Today on the platform, surrounded by so many people, I asked myself whether I would miss any one of them if they weren't here, and then: Whether they would miss me if I weren't here. Whether we are not all somehow here in order to touch one another. When the train finally came and I saw my reflection in its windows and in the sleeping faces rolling by behind them, there was no question, only an insight: We must all, every one of us, relate to one another.
Donna Goddard - Waldmeer
There is a depth to life which only comes from our connection to other people. However, we have to find it without becoming a prisoner.
David Brooks -
I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other people, experiences, or tasks. It happens sometimes when you are lost in a hard challenge, or when an artist or a craftsman becomes one with the brush or the tool. It happens sometimes while you’re playing sports, or listening to music or lost in a story, or to some people when they feel enveloped by God’s love. And it happens most when we connect with o
Shannon L. Alder -
Soul connections are not often found and are worth every bit of fight left in you to keep.
Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.
Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
When people can get away with crimes just because they are wealthy or have the right connections, the scales are tipped against fairness and equality. The weight of corruption then becomes so heavy that it creates a dent that forces the world to become slanted, so much so — that justice just slips off.
Leo Buscaglia - Loving Each Other
Definition of a relationship - an enduring, mutually-agreed upon connection or union, which fulfills certain needs of the individuals involved and the society in which they live.
Deborah Day -
Build me up and I with you. For we are more one than two.
Meg Jay - The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now
It’s the people we hardly know, and not our closest friends, who will improve our lives most dramatically
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -
The right, real and good connection between things produces the right, real and good things.
Tom Althouse - The Frowny Face Cow
Doing what you love, with those you love, is an adventurous type of success. The kind that can not be taken away, often discovered by those who have had much taken away, and saw it as an opportunity to re-access their path, and reset from the crucible of shared and beneficial dreams.
Deborah Day -
Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. For we are connected, one and all.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana - Heart Crush
You may have fallen down, but you can get back up again. You may have doors shut, but new doors will open for you. You may have been lied on, but the truth will come to the light. You may have been hurt, but the pain will pass. You are a survivor. You have a history of surviving.
Shannon L. Alder -
When you see people only as personalities, rather than souls with life missions to fulfill, you forever limit the growth and possibilities of what God has in store for another person.
Michael Ryan - God Hunger
THIS IS WHYHe will never be given to wonder muchif he was the mouth for some cruel forcethat said it. But if he were(this will comfort her) less than one momentout of millions had he meant it. So many years and so many turnsthey had swerved around the subject.And he will swear for many morethe kitchen and everything in it vanished --the oak table, their guests, the refrigerator doorhe had been surely propped against--all changed to rusted ironwork and ashexcept in the center in her linen caftan:
Jane Hirshfield - Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry
One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.