Quotes About Connections

Because of the Lebanese civil war, I had a scattered childhood. I had to build my own connections to each country we moved to.

I feel like anytime you write about people in an honest way, you can find connections to any issue you would like.

You can be surrounded by many people but still feel quite lonely if you don't have strong connections and if you feel you can't be yourself with them. Conversely, you can just be around a few people, but feel deeply connected to them.

I honestly don't have a lot of friends that are actors. Most of my friends I've known since sixth grade and are out of the industry. It gives me a sense of reality rather than surrounding myself with a bunch of actors.

We've met so many people you'd never even suspect of being Slayer fans: suits, lawyers, and people like that.

Campaigns are these moments of suspended animation where people usually learn how to be friends afterward.

My dad is from Japanese descent, my mom is from Swedish descent and, through marriages and divorces, a pretty multicultural family - a lot of Spanish speakers in the family.

The comedy community is very friendly right now. I think that's why you see all the synergy and people doing each other's movies.

Me personally, I have a small circle. Part of that is because sometimes, you meet people, and you can feel the synthetic energy.

One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it's the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you're dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.

Each life is a history of affinities through which we find ourselves and are "defined" by others.

H. ¿Es importante para usted la amistad? M. Sí, mucho. H. ¿Cuántos amigos tiene? M. Pocos, y estoy orgulloso de que sean pocos.

Somos un todo, un nudo de relaciones que comprende también nuestros contactos con los demás, nuestros deseos y nuestras fantasías.

Since we are messaging with far more people than we used to when messaging meant airmail or phone calls, we have an incentive to meet more people.

Each reported on a myriad others, filaments in an evangelistic web of treachery that stretched across the country.

War did indeed make strange bedfellows of people.

politicians often had the knack of seeming to know everyone intimately. Either they had remarkable memories, or their secretaries reminded them efficiently.

Acquaintances represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.

If you're not networking, you're not networking.

Power stems from 'rainmaking,' as law firms put it: the ability to bring resources into the company.

Our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency.

The publicists are the gatekeepers, and they wield a lot of power. They're the ones giving you access to their clients.

Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends.

Networking is simply the cultivating of mutually beneficial, give and take, win-win relationships. It works best, however, when emphasizing the "give" part.