Quotes About Connections

I'm getting to be an expert in finding hairdressers in foreign cities.

I wanted to explore the connections between different kinds of music.

I have interviewed face-to-face, sitting beside me, over 19,000 people.

Love has many faces.

When I moved to India, with all due respect, in the last 10 years I have been here, I have seen my biggest failures and it only happened because of lack of understanding. To make things work and happen, you have to know people. I don't like this whole thing of greasing palms.

I don't have that many family and friends.

In life it wasn't what you know, but who you know. I had people who were trying to buy teams and had they bought the teams, I would have gotten to coach because they wanted me to coach. But the people who have the teams hire their friends.

Paul Otellini, the former CEO of Intel, I worked with while I was still with VMware. I knew Ram Shriram through the tech industry.

Before I even got signed as a teen, I was singing with people like Hoyt Axton and Mickey Gilley. I worked with Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard.

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a screenplay writer or a photographer. First question people asked me: 'Who do you know? Any contacts?'

People always ask me if I'm best friends with everyone I work with in telly - but no, not everyone you work with is your friend.

In a nightclub, the women's loos are not just the women's loos; they're where temporary female friendships are forged.

Financial capital - the wherewithal for mass marketing - has steadily replaced social capital - that is, grassroots citizen networks - as the coin of the realm.

Upper-class parents enable their kids to form weak ties by exposing them more often to organized activities, professionals, and other adults. Working-class children, on the other hand, are more likely to interact regularly only with kin and neighborhood children, which limits their formation of valuable weak ties.

believed that those civilizations rose at approximately the same time on the cosmic scale—and exhibited all those similarities, including the high runes—because those civilizations had all been started by people from a single earlier civilization.

The More People I Meet, The More I Like My Dog.

Social network research suggests that people gain knowledge and power by occupying specific positions in a network. Those who bridge relatively disconnected pockets of a network are promoted earlier and are more mobile in their careers because they hear about opportunities before others do.

The richest people in the world build networks. Everyone else is trained to look for work.

Wallets can establish connections and change opinions. Things that fall apart can be glued back by money with astonishing alacrity.

she had two phones.

Elite performers build human connections. Business is about relationships. Nothing is more important than building emotional engagement with your teammates, with your suppliers and with your customers.

Uop?e ne sumnjam da smo se susreli s odre?enim razlogom. Život to tako uredi. Svi koji su ušli u tvoj život, došli su upravo u trenutku kada ti je njihova pouka bila najpotrebnija.

To think creatively, to struggle with an opaque text or confounding idea, to seek connections between periods of history or disciplines of thought, and to search for the precise word or the right rhythm for a single sentence—these are human actions every bit as worthy as the wielding of a hammer, the manipulation of a surgical scalpel, or the making of a courtroom argument.

Bribing Frank's secretary with candy and theater tickets, Slaght gained access to Frank, who was no less protective of his father than John was.