Quotes About Connection

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

How to Win Friends and Influence People

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.

Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, 'I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.' That is why dogs make such a hit. They are so glad to see us that they almost jump out of their skins. So, naturally, we are glad to see them.

Personally I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went fishing, I didn't think about what I wanted. I thought about what they wanted. I didn't bait the hook with strawberries and cream. Rather, I dangled a worm or grasshopper in front of the fish and said: "Wouldn't you like to have that?" Why not use the same common sense when fishing for people?

To be interesting, be interested.

What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.

Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

It was like finding a long-lost brother who farts in the same key.

it was like finding a brother who farts in key.

There's an alchemy that happens during sex that causes 1 + 1 to add up to much more than 2, even as those halves meld in an almost magical way to form a single unit that's more complete than either of them alone.

Every plant is an individual. Wrong again. We are not individuals at all, we are all connected. We are individuals the way each blossom on an apple tree is an individual.

We are friends, my dogs and I, in spite of evolutionary discontinuity and because of evolutionary continuity.

Forever will be you and me.

He used to tell himself although he knew it wasn't true that the air around her house was different because it was near to her.

He couldn't see her face of course but he knew she was smiling.

But he would like to feel that he was breathing the same air she breathed that he was in the same country she was in.

Telephones ringing at night are important.

No matter how far you are separated from other people if you have an idea of time why then you are in the same world with them you are part of them but if you lose time the others go on ahead of you and you are left alone hanging in air lost to everything forever.