Quotes About Connection

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

Politics is human beings it's addition rather than subtraction.

No creative work is ever the product of one person alone (no matter how tempting it is to believe our own hype)

Los Salmos fueron escritos por hombres de carne y hueso quienes fueron también hombres de Dios. Ellos experimentaron conflictos reales y pruebas duras, tal como nosotros mismos los padecemos. No tienes que leer mucho antes de encontrar que sus palabras se convierten en las tuyas y sus corazones expresan tu propio corazón.

Cuando oras la Biblia, no solo estás orando palabras ordinarias; estás orando palabras que son espíritu y son vida.

You might think of praying without ceasing as communicating with God on one line while also taking calls on another. Even while you are talking on the other line, you never lose your awareness of the need to return your attention to the Lord. So praying without ceasing means you never really stop conversing with God; you simply have frequent interruptions.

But if God invites and expects all his children—regardless of their age, IQ, education, or resources—to do the same thing—to pray—then prayer has to be simple.

La oración es, en un sentido, la expresión de una relación continua del cristiano con el Padre.

Básicamente, lo que tú haces es tomar las palabras que se originaron en el corazón y la mente de Dios, y las haces circular a través de tu corazón y tu mente de regreso a Dios. De este modo, Sus palabras vienen a ser las alas para tus oraciones.

Orar la Biblia es tan simple como ir a través del pasaje línea por línea, hablando con Dios acerca de todo aquello que venga a tu mente mientras lees el texto. ¿Ves cuán fácil es todo esto? Todos pueden hacerlo.

Take every word as spoken to yourselves. When the word thunders against sin, think thus: "God means my sins;" when it presseth any duty, "God intends me in this." Many put off Scripture from themselves, as if it only concerned those who lived in the time when it was written; but if you intend to profit by the word, bring it home to yourselves: a medicine will do no good, unless it be applied.9

Si no entiendes el significado del versículo, ve al siguiente. Si el significado de ese versículo es muy claro, pero nada viene a tu mente para orar, pasa al siguiente. Solo habla con el Señor acerca de todo aquello que se te ocurre mientras lees la Palabra, sin prisa. Hazlo aun si —y esta parte del libro es, la más factible de ser mal interpretada— lo que viene a tu mente no tiene nada que ver con el texto.

The reason we come away so cold from reading the word is because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation.

Martin Luther expressed God's expectation of prayer this way: "As it is the business of tailors to make clothes and of cobblers to mend shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray."[2]

To pray the Bible, you simply go through the passage line by line, talking to God about whatever comes to mind as you read the text.

The only way you can motivate people is to communicate with them." Effective communication also shapes values for people by "not only bringing company philosophy to life . . . ," as Peters and Austin put it, but also "helps newcomers understand how shared values affect individual performance.

If subordinates, or people in general, know that they genuinely have easy access to their leader, they'll tend to view the leader in a more positive, trustworthy light.

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

We can no more get out of a relationship with nature than we can get out of history.

You think that because you understand "one" that you must therefore understand "two" because one and one make two. But you forget that you must also understand "and." -Sufi teaching story

Now it's like a fog has lifted. I sense Leetu just as clearly as I can see the moon.' Your eyes are closed, and the moon as a haze around it.

Fenworth!' Yes?' You bore me with your prattle.' Oh, regrettable that. Why don't you seek the company of someone who doesn't prattle? Seems like a good solution to your problem.

We are stronger together.' Dar looked into Kale's eyes...He turned to Lee Ark and nodded pointedly at the hole through which Kale stared. 'It seems to me that we have a problem in this togetherness thing.

Come close now,' ordered Fenworth. 'Time for an exit. I think we'll whirl, Kale likes to whirl. Hold hands. Let's stay together, children. I want no one lost.