Quotes About Connections

You don't have to be born wealthy and have an aristocratic last name or have connections or all these things. If you have a dream, you can believe in something and work hard and struggle and fight for it and still have a chance to succeed.

You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan.

The reality is that SXSW is packed with brilliant entrepreneurs, investors and partners. They're everywhere, zipping back and forth like thousands of atoms. Your chances of colliding with one actually improve just by standing still.

I'll go to an event wearing some designer gown and tens of thousands of dollars in jewels that were lent to me for the night, and I'll walk around and meet people who I always thought were such a big deal.

Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.

I have three friendships that have lasted a long time, but everybody else has come and gone.

I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.

I was shocked and thrilled when I started getting messages and calls from people I look up to in the industry.

I am a super social person. I'm an only child, so I thrive on social settings and being around my friends because I make them my siblings. When I'm not acting or singing or working on anything, I am making new relationships with people because, to me, my friendships are very important.

To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.

The best thing about going to a tech conference is that you can tell everyone you're going to a tech conference. But while you're there, it's important you make a smart impression so people will remember you, or at least wait a few days before throwing away your business card.

Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate the course of phenomena in each particular laboratory; thus I resolved the digestive canal into several separate parts.

'House' has opened a lot of doors for me. I've met a whole bunch of people and got a whole new bunch of contacts. I've got the golden ticket.

I don't think anybody in the NFL is tied to each other.

Deadpool was intended, as Cable was, to be tied into Wolverine's history.

A number of bloggers in economics and the financial sector have risen to prominence through the sheer strength of their work. Note it was not their family connections nor ties to Ivy League schools or elite banks, but rather the strength of their research, analysis and writing.

I've been back to the Kansas City area a lot in the past. My sisters went to college in the area. My brother went to college in the area. I've got friends there, so there's some ties to the area.

I've got ties in Chicago. I was trained there. I've got a lot of family and friends.

I learned you just need to know people who know how to tie ties, and they'll tie them for you, and you can just put them on and take them off.

The point is that both people involved understand they are using one another to improve their access to resources, broaden their professional connections, and create mutually beneficial opportunities.

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

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

It's not the length of time we knew someone that makes them so special. It's what they brought into our lives.

As an adult, it feels much harder to make friends but the moments spent together are cherished so dearly.