Quotes About Connections

My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships.

Our close connections aren't always planned. They grow. Sometimes they surprise you. Look at us.

responses—adults had their own gatherings,

You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it.

None of us is responsible for the wonderful people we don't meet; we're only lucky when we do meet them.

I don't know how to make friends and influence people, I fuck around too much, my reputation's bad.

A main source of our failure to understand is that we don't have an overview of the use of our words. – Our grammar is deficient in surveyability. A surveyable representation produces precisely that kind of understanding which consists in 'seeing connections'. … The concept of a surveyable representation is of fundamental significance for us. It characterizes the way we represent things, how we look at matters. (Is this a 'Weltanschauung'?)

The human heart is big enough to love more than one in a lifetime.

you have all the hallmarks of a seeker...You chase special knowledge. You find threads of connections and then share them with people who need them. I can read it in the way you looked at me, the questions you ask, but more importantly, the ones you don't.

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

Successful people don't do it alone. Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments.

The success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.

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 point about Connectors is that by having a foot in so many different worlds, they have the effect of bringing them all together.

My social circle is, in reality, not a circle. It is a pyramid. And at the top of the pyramid is a single person—Jacob—who is responsible for an overwhelming majority of the relationships that constitute my life.

These people who link us up with the world, who bridge Omaha and Sharon, who introduce us to our social circles—these people on whom we rely more heavily than we realize—are Connectors, people with a special gift for bringing the world together.

Jeb Bush once said of what it meant for his business career that he was the son of an American president and the brother of an American president and the grandson of a wealthy

Successful people don't do it alone.

Connectors, people with a special gift for bringing the world together.

Throughout the majority of human history, encounters—hostile or otherwise—were rarely between strangers.

I had that perfect deadpan ... for these commercials. Within the first eight months I had eight national TV commercials. I'm a true Hollywood success story - knew no one, had no connections.

You know you made it, when people you know, tell people they know, that you know them.

If you network you need to network with people who can help you.