Quotes About Connection

No matter how intellectual and multicolored motherhood becomes as children grow older, the part that says My purpose on earth is to keep you alive has never totally dissipated. Magical thinking on all sides.

No matter how carefully we defend ourselves, all it takes is one footprint of another real person to recall us to the endlessly interesting hazards of living relationships.

What makes it possible for cooperation to emerge is the fact that the players might meet again

Our compact is not just with those who are alive today. It's also with those who have come before us and those yet to be born. To the founding fathers, the Constitution and our system of government established a moral bond connecting generations. "There seems…to be some foundation in the nature of things, in the relation which one generation bears to another, for the descent of obligations from one to another

I believe we're bound together by the ideals and principles we share, and the mutual obligations those principles entail.

people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.79

What we present first changes the way people experience what we present to them next.

So by my lights, the number one rule for salespeople is to show customers that you genuinely like them. There's a wise adage that fits this logic well: people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

The rule says that we should try to repay, in kind, what another person has provided us.

WHO WE ARE IS WHERE WE ARE Whenever

Our ability to create change in others is often and importantly grounded in shared personal relationships, which create a pre-suasive context for assent. It's a poor trade-off, then, for social influence when we allow present-day forces of separation—distancing societal changes, insulating modern technologies—to take a shared sense of human connection out of our exchanges. The relation gets removed, leaving just the ships, passing at sea.87 UNITY

subjects became fonder of the people and things they experienced while they were eating.

deberíamos estarlo. La regla de la reciprocidad rige muchas situaciones de naturaleza puramente interpersonal que no implican un intercambio de dinero ni comercial. Un ejemplo ilustrativo de esto es

Si no tenemos paz es porque hemos olvidado que nos pertenecemos unos a otros.

Since I left for college I have been remiss in writing and I am sorry for my thoughtlessness in not having written before. I will bring you up to

Hell: A sumptuously provisioned banquet hall full of hungry people with locked-strait elbow joints who can't feed themselves because their unbendable arms won't allow it. Heaven: Everything's the same except people are feeding each other.

The key to the success of this method is that each new prospect is visited by a salesperson armed with the name of a friend "who suggested I call on you." Turning the salesperson away under those circumstances is difficult; it's almost like rejecting the friend.

Las acciones pueden abarcar desde tamborileo con los dedos en un laboratorio, sonreír en una conversación o cambiar de postura en una interacción entre profesor y alumno; todos ellos, si se realizan de forma sincronizada, hacen que las personas mejoren sus respectivas evaluaciones entre sí.

the most important feature of a map is the degree of correspondence between the elements in the map and the elements of the territory they represent.

By words one of us can give another the greatest happiness or bring about utter despair; by words the teacher imparts his knowledge to the student; by words the orator sweeps his audience with him and determines its judgments and decisions. Words call forth emotions and are universally the means by which we influence our fellow-creatures.

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

Because I love you," I said. "Because you are in my life like the music at the edge of silence.

I always loved it when I had a story to tell her, because her attention was complete and felt like sunlight.

It seems to me now that true love is the only theme for either song or story.