Quotes About Connection

Frankly, you're the most homeless person--emotionally--I ever met.

Small talk is about putting people at ease. Your unspoken answer to their unspoken question, How do you like me so far? must be, Wow! I really like you.

the more eye contact, the more positive feelings.

Let's hear it again! The sweetest sound your conversation partner can hear from your lips when you're talking with a group of people is Tell them about the time you . . .

Similarity breeds attraction. When you delay revealing your similarity, or let them discover it, it has much more punch.

When introducing someone to another person: If you're not comfortable mentioning someone's job during the introduction, mention their hobby or even a talent.

Right after you've talked to someone at a party, take out your pen. On the back of his or her business card write notes to remind you of the conversation: his favourite restaurant, sport, movie, or drink; whom she admires, where she grew up, a high school honour; or maybe a joke he told. In your next communication, toss off a reference to the favourite restaurant, sport, movie, drink, hometown, high school honour.

All folks have a Big Ben in their brain that determines how receptive they are going to be to you and your ideas. When you mess with their internal clock, they won't listen to you. No matter how interesting your information, or how pleasant your call, bad timing means bad results for you.

Can I aske forgiveness for someone else, someone whose already dead? Yes, you can. Of course you can. And you can give charity in their name and you can recite the Qur'an for their sake. All these things will reach them, your prayers will ease the hardship and loneliness of their grave or it will reach them in bright, beautiful gifts. Gifts to unwrap and enjoy and they will know that this gift is from you.

I like talking to you,' he said, slowly. 'Why?' That was the way to hear nice things. Ask why.

There are never enough 'I love you's.

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.

Why does the benefactor love the recipient more than the recipient loves the benefactor? Because the benefactor lives in the recipient, the way in which the poet lives in the poem.

I've not been right for any man or myself since I met you.

Until a man is struck in his own face he does not want to believe the attack on his brother concerns him.

every day with you? Come on

i didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i was passing through

a life without love, is no life at all

Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of others.    ââ'¬â€ALBERT EINSTEIN I

Chemicals were easier to procure than friends, and when I wanted to play with them they never said they had to stay home to wash their hair or, less politely, that they didn't associate with weirdos.

few people would engage in extended activity if they believed that there were a random connection between what they did and the rewards they received,"15 Lerner concluded that "for the sake of their own sanity," people overestimate the degree to which ability can be inferred from success.

In particular, what seems special about humans is our desire and ability to understand what other people think and feel. Called "theory of mind," or "ToM," this ability gives humans a remarkable power to make sense of other people's past behavior and to predict how their behavior will unfold given their present or future circumstances.

few people would engage in extended activity if they believed that there were a random connection between what they did and the rewards they received