Quotes About Connections

Have you ever just stopped and realized that if you hadn't met a certain person in your life, your life would be completely different.

History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.

would say, some people are like constellations that only touch the earth for a season.

Some people are like constellations who only touch the earth for a season.

Professor Adam Galinsky, an American social psychologist who has studied the connection between creativity and international travel, says that 'Foreign experiences increase both cognitive flexibility and depth and integrativeness of thought, the ability to make deep connections between disparate forms.'1

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I already know an awful lot of people and until one of them dies I couldn't possibly meet anyone else.

It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.

The truth, even more, is that life is perpetually weaving fresh threads which link one individual and one event to another, and that these threads are crossed and recrossed, doubled and redoubled to thicken the web, so that between any slightest point of our past and all the others a rich network of memories gives us an almost infinite variety of communicating paths to choose from.

Now my uncle knew many of them [actresses] personally, and also ladies of another class, not clearly distinguished from actresses in my mind.

Now my uncle knew many of them personally, and also ladies of another class, not clearly distinguished from actresses in my mind. He used to entertain them at his house.

Dannon had tried to catch her eye, but she'd resolutely moved on to the next Important Person.

No one will be able to effectively participate in relevant knowledge flows without possessing useful knowledge stocks of their own. People who reach out to connect with others to simply take knowledge will find that these interactions quickly dry up as others begin to realize they have little to gain from these connections. As in all relationships, reciprocity is essential. Knowledge stocks thus become both a means and an end to participation in knowledge flows.

Social conventions were avenues as much as barriers.

What sort of Englishman is forever too busy for tea? The nose-to-the-grindstone sort, to begin with. The sort who gets ahead without connections, who makes something of himself without benefit of small talk or social lubrication or the seeking of personal kindnesses.

The main things are to commit to some simple behaviors—meditating, exercising, getting enough sleep—and to practice altruism.… And nurture your social connections.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. Even your super weirdo creep cousin.

You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.

And that's the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

I see the friends I made over the years who have become family today, people I became acquainted with who have achieved so much in their lives. They taught me something with each meeting.

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.

I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.

I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested.