Quotes About Connections

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

If you believe in extrasensory perception, a call from a friend after you have thought about her is a confirmation of your powers. Such an experience feels truly amazing, but remember, the mind is very creative in finding patterns and connections; the mystical experiences that do click are the only ones we will notice and remember, while millions of other possible coincidences are ignored and forgotten.

A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles.

A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.

Refusing the false securities of a stable and linear past, such an approach celebrates heterogeneous sensations and surprising associations, random connections, the ongoing construction of meaning and also admits into its orbit the mysterious agency of artifacts, space and non-humans from the past.

I have very few friends. I'm an associate of everybody and friend of none.

There's a network of top doctors that normal people don't know about.

You do nonfiction, you get to meet people you would not normally meet.

I'm from all over the Northeast.

A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia.

My social life's moved up a few notches since moving back to London from Surrey because I'm near friends and family again and I'm really enjoying it.

There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections.

It looks like I've been smart about it, but truly, I've been incredibly lucky to have the right people notice me and want to work with me.

Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.

I think there's lots of people with family connections but who are actually nowhere. If you're hard-working and determined, you will make it, and that's the bottom line. I don't believe in an easy way through.

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

When it comes to nurturing professional relationships and developing a community, LinkedIn is one of the best resources.

Obama's capitalism is a capitalism of connections.

Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.

You think associatively on pot, so you can have real extraordinary thoughts. But the more education you have, the more you have to put together . . . the more wonderful connections there are to see in the universe.

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

recuerdo que lo que hace especial a una ciudad no son solo su topografía ni las apariencias concretas de edificios y personas, la mayor parte de las veces creadas a partir de casualidades, sino los recuerdos que ha ido reuniendo la gente que, como yo, ha vivido cincuenta años en las mismas calles, las letras, los colores, las imágenes y la consistencia de las casualidades ocultas o expresas, que es lo que mantiene todo unido.

If we've lived in a city long enough to have given our truest and deepest feelings to its prospects, there comes a time when—just as a song recalls a lost love—particular streets, images, and vistas will do the same.

It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity, But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.