Quotes About Connection

Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere

To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered.

And over and over she told him she loved him. And over and over he told her he loved her. And it was always a new thing that they told each other.

It is strange, is it not, how a person can adore one's soul so much that they adore one's body also?

Like every other guide or wildlife lover who is eventually eaten or trampled, I felt that I had a bond with this herd that would make me safe with them. I wanted to try my luck again.

Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.

What is your name?" she asked wearily. "Tom Gibbons." "And yours?" turning to The Wounded Bad Man. "Bill Kearny." She glanced inquiringly at The Youngest Bad Man. "Bob Sangster," he replied. "Will you save my baby?" Slowly, searchingly, the wonderful eyes confronted each Bad Man in turn.

Regarding his friend's insight after losing her spouse to cancer: "She told me she had plenty of people to do things with but nobody to do nothing with.

Baker had a talent for connection. He could be whatever he needed to be at the moment it was necessary. The young man who slid back and forth from Texas to Princeton, from the Ivy Club in the spring to the wildcatter's rig in the summer, now applied the same skills on Capitol Hill.

I know I am God because when I pray to him I find I'm talking to myself.

An obligation is a rope ... by which we are tied. Dwell on that image. Here am I with a rope around my neck. We must allow for the other end of the rope. You are holding that. I am under an obligation to you: the picture is of this rope between us, and you in control; the rope is round my neck but in your hand.

Watching Nicholson talking Towne was like listening to Bob Dylan playing with the Band.

Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It manifests the willingness to live in a collaborative way. This means that a future can be created without having to force or sell it or barter for it. When we believe that barter or subtle coercion is necessary, we are operating out of a context of scarcity and self-interest, the core currencies of the economist.

What makes community building so complex is that it occurs in an infinite number of small steps, sometimes in quiet moments that we notice out of the corner of our eye. It calls for us to treat as important many things that we thought we incidental. An afterthought becomes the point; a comment made in passing defines who we are more than all that came before. If the artist is one who captures the nuance of experience, then this is whom each of us must become.

We can create structures of belonging even if we are introverted

2) Asking For The Order Doesn't Motivate People To Buy. What motivates people to buy is when they get that you "get" them—that you understand their world, and have shown how your product/service will impact their company in ways important to them. In most cases, the salesperson that wins the deal isn't the one with the best product or lowest price, but the one who best articulates the customer's point of view.

Social media is like a virtual handshake when used by a professional advisor.

always been. Just you an' me." "I saw my wife last night. In here." Hawk was talking to the floor, mostly trying to work it out in his own mind. "I saw my son... I saw Jubal... in his room across the hall." "Oh, that's why you went outside. I was wondering. You came back in smiling like I never saw you smile before

you practice elaboration, there's no known limit to how much you can learn. Elaboration is the process of giving new material meaning by expressing it in your own words and connecting it with what you already know. The more you can explain about the way your new learning relates to your prior knowledge, the stronger your grasp of the new learning will be, and the more connections you create that will help you remember it later.

Putting new knowledge into a larger context helps learning. For example, the more of the unfolding story of history you know, the more of it you can learn. And the more ways you give that story meaning, say by connecting it to your understanding of human ambition and the untidiness of fate, the better the story stays with you.

Reflection can involve several cognitive activities that lead to stronger learning: retrieving knowledge and earlier training from memory, connecting these to new experiences, and visualizing and mentally rehearsing what you might do differently next time.

Elaboration is the process of giving new material meaning by expressing it in your own words and connecting it with what you already know.

We gravitate to the narratives that best explain our emotions. In this way, narrative and memory become one.

Learning is stronger when it matters, when the abstract is made concrete and personal.