Quotes About Connection

What can I say to get others involved around the table? How can I draw them in?

Comprendí que ayudar a los demás, ¡me ayudaba a mí!».

You can't build a relationship with everybody in the room when you don't care about anybody in the room.

No se pueden construir relaciones con personas que nos perciben de manera negativa. La confianza es el adhesivo que mantiene unida a la gente.

people are most likely to help us after we have helped them in some way.

Isn't it strange how we must surrender being right in order to find what's right, how humility enables us to be authentic, vulnerable, trustworthy, and intimate with others? People are open to those who are open to them.

People don't learn from people they don't value.

Most people want to feel a part of the experience

Sin embargo, uno no tiene que ser importante para ser una persona de influencia. Es más, si su vida se vincula de alguna manera con otras personas, usted tiene influencia. Todo lo que hace en el hogar, la iglesia, su trabajo, o en el campo de pelota afecta las vidas de otras personas.

Para ser eficaces, los líderes necesitan conectarse con la gente. Porque se debe llegar al corazón de la gente antes de pedirles una mano.

Como dijo Steve Jobs: "La creatividad es simplemente conectar cosas. Cuando uno le pregunta a la gente creativa cómo hicieron algo, se sienten un poco culpables porque en realidad ellos no lo hicieron; ellos solo vieron algo, y les pareció obvio después de un rato".

if you have a positive, joyous outlook, the joy you share will be returned to you.

La vida que usted escoge no comienza y termina con usted. Lo que usted hace influencia a los demás.

Stories tell us who we are. They… Inspire us. Connect with us. Animate our reasoning process. Give us permission to act. Fire our emotions. Give us pictures of who we aspire to be. Stories are us.

No es necesario decir que podemos interesarnos por las personas sin liderarlas, pero no podemos liderar a las personas sin interesarnos por ellas. La gente no le seguirá si no puede llevarse bien con usted. Así son las cosas.

THE LAW OF THE CHAIN The Strength of the Team Is Impacted by Its Weakest Link

She was his potchke, his fleutchke, his notchke, his motchke, his everything that the speech of St. Botolphs left unexpressed. She was his little, little squirrel.

Standing in the rain outside the door of Percy's old house, we seemed bound together not by blood and not by love but by a sense that the world and its works were hostile.

Hurry, hurry, hurry," she said, for it was dark then, and she knew that we are bound, one to another, in licentious benevolence for only a single day, and that day was nearly over.

For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better. That part of their experience that is distinct and separate, the totality of the years before they met, is changed, is redirected toward this moment. They feel they have reached an identical point of intensity, an ecstasy of rightness that they command in every part, and any recollection that occurs to them takes on this final clarity

Su un tram affollato a Roma all'ora di chiusura una sera d'inverno, qualcuno per sbaglio mi tocca la spalla. Non mi giro a guardare chi è e non saprò mai se è un uomo o una donna, una sgualdrina o un prete, ma quel tocco delicato scatena in me un tale desiderio di tenerezza e di cura che sospiro; mi sento cedere le ginocchia. Non è un sospiro profumato di violette né uno spasimo chopinesco: è qualcosa di rozzo e reale come i peli sulla mia pancia

And he recognized that he was separated only by a pane of glass from a life that was as strange to him as life on the moon.

When I agreed to call him about lunch he gave me his telephone number at the shipyard, his extension there, the telephone number of his apartment, the telephone number of a cottage he had in Connecticut, and the telephone number of the club where he lunched and played cards. I wrote all these numbers on a piece of paper and when we said goodbye I dropped the paper into a wastebasket.

Fellatio is the nicest thing one human being can do for another.