Quotes About Connections

I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn.

Every new friend, in your life is 1% success.

If you want to be successful, you have to surround yourself with successful people or successful minds

Creativity is especially expressed in the ability to make connections, to make associations, to turn things around and express them in a new way.

Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it's inside of us. We're living in a world of connections — and it matters which ones get made and unmade.

how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?

Because I think to myself, even today, how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?

Would not write you a diary of life on board because it is only this: Oatmeal for breakfast. Swimming in the pool. Invitation for cocktail. Walk with So and So. Lunch with Mr. & Mrs. Nobody. Movies with Mr. Connecticut Yankee. Tea with Count Z. Cocktails with rich Jewish merchant. Dinner with X. Dancing until midnight.

You know I just dispatched copies to Aldous Huxley & Ezra Pound—finally heard from them. And to Blaise Cendrars.‡ Also wrote a good letter to Emma Goldman.

Tell me whom you haunt and I'll tell you who you are.

Talking to other people will help build your personal network, and you may surprise yourself by finding solutions to other, unrelated problems along the way.

Everyone winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.

Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.

There are people you've known a long time and you know you're never really going to like. And there are people that you meet and grow to like. Then there are people you meet and you like instantly.

New Age thinkers usually enter the ditch on the other side of the road: They idealize altered states of consciousness and draw specious connections between subjective experience and the spookier theories at the frontiers of physics.

we can't see are the only things that make life worth living.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Quilts are like lives. They're made up of a lot of little pieces," Nit said.

Some people come into your life and leave a mark.

If only you could really use a fail-proof system to know who was worth keeping and who needed to be thrown away. It would make it so much easier to move through the world, picking and choosing what connections to make, or whether to make any at all.

I'd known enough people for every minute of the day, and yet still didn't have anyone as my two a.m.

Nothing, nobody matters. And yet the world is full of love

I resist the urge to raise my hand and utter the four most reassuring words in the English language: I know a guy.

The great thing about reading diverse news from the fields of business, health, science, technology, politics, and more is that you automatically see patterns in the world and develop mental hooks upon which you can hang future knowledge.