Quotes About Connection

People who say they have a best friend at work are seven times as likely to be engaged in what they're doing. And if they don't have a best friend at work, the odds of being engaged are just 1 in 12.

There definitely were times, and I think Michael would say the same thing, where I hated him. We were at odds at times. Even when I loathed him, there were still times when I was like, 'God, I wish I was with him.'

The odyssey is not going out and seeing the world: it's about trying to get home. It's home to the woman you love.

The Bake Off' taps into nostalgic feelings about your mum baking in the kitchen. It's a big ruddy comfort blanket, and you get attached to the bakers. It also genuinely has a good heart.

I believe in astrology. I really go off of energy.

I think every character rubs off on you a little bit.

You can only offend me if you mean something to me.

As corny as it sounds, and not to sound like a hippie, I think there are these spirit forces in nature, and we have to be careful not to offend them.

Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people.

Taking offense is, in fact, one of the few things that brings us together.

If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.

If the songs I'm writing can offer anything to somebody, I'd like to give myself the opportunity to deliver that.

Simple people have much to offer. We, too, in return, must give to them to the best of our abilities. We must, with all our heart, try to help them acquire what they truly deserve.

The whole reason people fill their homes with furry carnivores and not with, say, iguanas and turtles, is because mammals offer something no reptile ever will. They give affection, they want affection, and respond to our emotions the way we do to theirs.

There's a love that I want to continue to offer people. And, I hope I can offer people that love through the art.

My writing is about connecting ways of talking to human relationships. My purpose is to show that linguistics has something to offer in understanding and improving relationships.

There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me.

Whenever offers come my way, if I connect with it, then I am completely open to it.

We live in an experience-hungry society with advanced event technology and broad social reach at our fingertips. These external factors offers an ideal environment for organizers to create a connection with a broader set of people and maximize each interaction with their audience.

If I have to convey some message to different parts of the state, then the state capital offers me the best platform.

I feel a special bond with the Law Enforcement Officers Memorial.

I don't believe very much in corporate offices. I believe in leaders who are with their customers and their people.

I think just knowing you're married and having that in the back of your mind all the time - it sounds official, but it doesn't really feel any different. We don't do anything differently than we did before.

My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.