Quotes About Connections

Even if love doesn't stay, be thankful for the visit.

We meet the people we're supposed to when the time is just right.

Some aching beauty comes with huge loss, although maybe not right away, when it would be helpful. Life is a very powerful force, despite the constant discouragement. So if you are a person with connections to life, a few tendrils eventually break through the sidewalk of loss, and you notice them, maybe space out studying them for a few moments, or maybe they tickle you into movement and response, if only because you have to scratch your nose.

You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well.

So many unexpected people seemed to edge into a person's life, once that person had children.

Morris. Mercy filed the name in her memory. So many unexpected people seemed to edge into a person's life, once that person had children.

narrowly missed connections. They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong; they pass each other and keep running. It had all amounted to nothing, in the end.

Conformity no longer leads to comfort. But the good news is that creativity is scarce, and more valuable than ever. So is choosing to do something unpredictable and brave: make art. Being an artist isn't a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It's an attitude we can all adopt. It's a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things you're an artist, no matter what it says on your business card.

ASSOCIATE WITH WINNERS Four groups of people will dramatically influence how your business evolves: » Customers » Employees » Vendors » Peers Line yourself up with the wrong people in each category and, like a poorly created bonsai tree, your business will grow up twisted and misshapen.

In order to change a culture, we begin with an exclusive cohort. That's where we can offer the most tension and create the most useful connections.

Becoming a linchpin is a stepwise process, a path in which you develop the attributes that make you indispensable. You can train yourself to matter. The first step is the most difficult, the step where you acknowledge that this is a skill, and like all skills, you can (and will) get better at it. Every day, if you focus on the gifts, art, and connections that characterize the linchpin, you'll become a little more indispensable.

The skills available to us through mindfulness make it possible to bring love to our connections with others.

He is the pliant favored child of privilege, of corporate connections, a construct of public relations wizards and of party propagandists.

It's a total lie to say there's only one person you're going to be with for the rest of your life. If you're lucky - and if you try really hard - there will always be more than one.

Some people come into your life and leave a mark.

One of the difficulties in living the lifestyle I lead is that it is hard to get my friends in one place.

You have different people who come into your life and they affect you in a way and leave an impact on you. Whether it's projects or friends or directors, it's just an opportunity that people give me.

There are things that feel so small but are such a big part of life.

I am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships.

Movies and life become a little more symmetrical when you start asking for and looking for connections.

Because of being married, I've met people and experienced all these little things that have nurtured my life - not so much changed it, just nurtured it in a way that's astounding.

I just have a great life. I know great people. I've had great relationships - all different kinds of relationships. I am so lucky to be on the little golden path that led me to all this.

I really like people and I keep friendships. I have people from all parts of my life.

I probably have more friends from 'Twilight' than I've ever had in my whole life.