Quotes About Connections

In terms of the most unique thing we do socially, my vote goes to something we invented alongside cities - we have lots of anonymous interactions and interactions with strangers. That has shaped us enormously.

I have always been selective about people who enter my life.

I think I have shaken more hands in my life than anyone else.

One thing I'm interested in is what shapes us: the people? The place where we live? It's both of those and more. That's what I keep coming back to.

I have been around a long time and shared some very elite company.

I don't know how people get into show business if their family's not in it.

I wasn't aware of it at the time, but I was a big favorite with the Mafia.

I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy.

You've got to be nice to people when you're on your way up, because you never know who you are going to meet on the way down.

A lot of people just send me beats, and I pick the ones I like. See, once I said I was doing my album - because I know everybody and they mama - everybody just got in touch with me.

People who dance well, dress well, are well groomed and know how to behave seem to know others who dance, dress and behave well.

My belief and goal is that every professional in the world should be on a service liked LinkedIn.

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

He'd successfully kept Jan Burres and Wayne Westerberg at arm's length, flitting out of their lives before anything was expected of him. And now he'd slipped painlessly out of Ron Franz's life as well.

well! So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!

Hilarious! he said. It is! I never heard from her again! Oh, well! So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!

I...confirm the fact - with a certain bittersweet melancholy - that everything in the world brings me back to a quotation or a book.

The richest people in the world build networks and invest in people; everyone else looks for work and invests in survival.

Geithner went to the well-connected investment bank Warburg Pincus. Bernanke advises the Citadel hedge fund and chaired an advisory board for the giant PIMCO bond fund, owned by Allianz of Germany, which also included as its members Jean-Claude Trichet and Gordon Brown as well as Anne-Marie Slaughter of the Obama foreign policy team.34 It was like a mini reunion of 2008 crisis fighters.

God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.

Emergence emphasizes critical connections over critical mass, building authentic relationships, listening with all the senses of the body and the mind.

emergence notices the way small actions and connections create complex systems, patterns that become ecosystems and societies. Emergence is our inheritance as a part of this universe; it is how we change. Emergent strategy is how we intentionally change in ways that grow our capacity to embody the just and liberated worlds we long for.

A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.

It's amazing how you cross paths with people. You work intimately, and then you never see them again the rest of your life, or even speak.