Quotes About Connections

strength of weak ties": the idea that each of us has strong ties with some people and weak ties with others we'd call acquaintances—and that it's our acquaintances, with strong ties of their own, who are bridges to people, information, and opportunities we wouldn't otherwise find.

Truth is the aim of story. And though we must take into account the human author's subjectivity and personal slant, the best authors are those who tap universal longings and make connections to our real, lived humanity.

vital role of the imagination in spiritual formation is to help a young person make meaningful connections between the church, the world, and her life.

It's like everyone I have dinner with, I'm having an affair with. Who was it I met the other day? Minnie Driver! She seems charming, but that's the only time I've met her.

Cultivate friendships. If you don't have time to cultivate all of them, plow under every fifth one and collect your bonus.

This is not the first time that Mexican authorities have handed over an Arab from a country with known Al Qaeda connections to a local sheriff across the border. FBI picks them up and disappears

I've been lucky enough that I can gather all sorts of experiences and find inspiration by traveling around and by spending time with people I admire.

An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.

The next time you face a room full of strangers . . . you might tell yourself that some of them are just friends waiting to be found.

The time to build a network is always before you need one.

In the end we all have stories.

that is real in our past is the love we gave and the love we received.

I was aware now, as ever, that between all people there were First Times You See Them and Last Times you See Them.

Common or default recruitments are a phenomenon of thought in general: we are always ready to use default conceptual connections as we think. It is important to recognize, however, that common, default recruitments do not give us fixed basic concepts: we can always unplug the default connections; they are, in technical jargon, "defeasible." They look stable and fixed sometimes, but only because they are entrenched.

One's associations with people are regulated as much by what they stand for, as by what they are, individual characteristics becoming from time to time submerged in more general implications.

If Dick's sister married Tom's brother what relation would Dick be to Tom's mother? That's the kind of thing, isn't it?' suggested Hoffman.

He who hath many friends hath none.

No electronic computer can match the human brain at associating apparently irrelevant facts.

The world's history was a mass of such disconnected threads, and none could say which were important and which were trivial.

It is hard luck on a young fellow to have expensive tastes, great expectations, aristocratic connections but no actual money in his pocket, and no profession by which he may earn any.

As soon as we're born, we become a part of patterns, the intimate ones we create with those we live among, and the patterns so large that it takes a lifetime to perceive a fragment of the possibilities.

most people report dreaming principally in visual images. Freud, however, assumes that dreams start from a dream-thought that is best expressed in words and translate it into a picture-language which is intellectually inferior because it cannot convey logical connections; the analyst restores to the dream its verbal character.

I like that library books have secret lives. All those hands that have held them. All those eyes that have read them. I

I quickly realized that friendships without tomorrows, and the little anguishes of parting, were part of the pleasures of traveling. I resolutely avoided bores, saw only those who amused me. We spent afternoons taking long walks, nights drinking and talking, and then we would leave each other, never to meet again, and there were no regrets. How simple life was. No regrets, no obligations, my acts and gestures counted for nothing, no one asked my advice, and I knew no other rule but my whims.