Quotes About Connections

The Power of WHO provides great lessons about how to succeed in business and in life. If you surround yourself with quality people and great friends, the sky's the limit.

In this new narrative, learning ceases to focus on consuming information or knowledge that's no longer scarce. Instead, it's about asking questions, working with others to find the answers, doing real work for real audiences, and adding to, not simply taking from, the storehouse of knowledge that the Web is becoming. It's about developing the kinds of habits and dispositions that deep, lifelong learners need to succeed in a world rife with information and connections.

I'd go so far as to say that I want my own kids to be found by strangers on the Internet. (I'll let that hang there for a moment.) Certainly, I want them to be found by the right strangers, the ones who share their passions and want to learn with them. And I want them to be able to discern between good and bad strangers.

life depends on what she thinks of as 'big bursts' and 'little bursts.' Big bursts are things like marriage or children, intimacies that keep you afloat, but these big bursts hold dangerous, unseen currents. Which is why you need the little bursts as well: a friendly clerk at Bradlee's, let's say, or the waitress at Dunkin' Donuts who knows how you like your coffee.

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

Weaving olden dances; mingling hands and mingling glances.

Despite the ongoing risks, during great swaths of its mostly charmed 142 years, Goldman Sachs has been both envied and feared for having the best talent, the best clients, and the best political connections, and for its ability to alchemize them into extreme profitability and market prowess.

Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.

Young Hamilton was even then coming into his own as the most energetic and brilliant of the nationalists, with a strong interest in the connections between national finance and national military power.

Researchers have done a lot of work over the past few years analyzing social networks. It turns out almost everything is contagious. If your friends are obese, you are more likely to be obese. If your friends are happy, you're more likely to be happy. If your friends smoke, you smoke. If they feel lonely, you feel lonely.

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

Le mieux est d'éviter de nouer des relations. Car rien ne dure.

Ir br?niš??gi cilv?ki, kurus m?s sastopam nepiem?rot? br?d?, un ir br?niš??gi cilv?ki, kuri t?di ir tikai t?d??, ka m?s tos esam sastapuši ?staj? br?d?.

Sur le chemin du fauteuil, et sans trop savoir pourquoi, Hector repensa à un dicton croate qui disait qu'on rencontrait souvent les femmes de sa vie devant des livres. A priori, il y avait là un livre.

Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.

The rise of the modern corporation, in the late nineteenth century, was largely seen at the time as a matter of applying modern, bureaucratic techniques to the private sector—and these techniques were assumed to be required, when operating on a large scale, because they were more efficient than the networks of personal or informal connections that had dominated a world of small family firms.

Non sai di quante allusioni a te sia pieno il mondo.

Our brains are comprised of around eighty billion neurons interconnected to form an enormous network involving approximately five hundred trillion connections called synapses.

As with any computing device, understanding the brain involves characterizing the properties of its main components (neurons), the nature of their connections (synapses), and the pattern of interconnections (wiring diagram).

this is why we call people exes, I guess - because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it's too easy to see an X as a cross-out. it's not, because there's no way to cross out something like that. the X is a diagram of two paths.

Now I no longer believed that one man or even one group of men were responsible. There were too many connections, too many avenues of villainy. Too many men had too much power and knowledge, but none could be made to answer for their crimes because they hid themselves in endless mazes of deceit and fiction.

God brings people into our lives precisely when we need them.

My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It's about as important as things get.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.