Quotes About Connections

I just like meeting people." "I don't." Tinsley wrinkled her nose. "It upsets my balance. I hate having to constantly reconfigure everyone, who fits where and all that.

an artist, too, must see the world whole, he must somehow learn to see during the blinks, he must see where no one else can see, he must see the connections, the betweennesses in the world. Even if the connections are ugly and evil, the artist must learn to see and record them.

They were saving their smiles for people they cared about.

Many scores of ladies have come into my life and gone away happy.

I'm friends with Dierks Bentley. Aside from that, I don't really know anybody else in the country music field, really. I've met the Lady Antebellum people and I met Marty Stuart briefly once. He's really nice, but I don't know any of them, really.

I worked with Chris Squire on a Greg Lake record in the early '80s, worked with Alan White.

I seem to be landing a lot of roles with animal interactions, which is amazing.

I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.

Often, the best jobs come out of just meeting people and letting one thing lead to another.

My grandmother knew J.F.K. and L.B.J. That was her world. I enjoy meeting interesting people. But that's not my world.

I really, really love what I do, and there's nothing I love more than getting on stage and playing for an audience or working on a part, getting in front of the camera, and meeting all the cool people I get to meet, and going all the cool places I get to go.

Good companies are always fundraising. Whether you're meeting people or considering firms, you're always fundraising.

I'm meeting people I never would have met at Brown and doing things I couldn't do because of basketball.

Actually, nobody has ever given me an award, and also, it's not really important in my life. I go to these award shows for meeting my friends.

You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings.

In affluent communities, where each member is keenly aware of his or her place within the Byzantine order, attracting the right friends is a blood sport. Chumming up to influential figures who are in a position to help can determine the course of an entire life.

I love memoirs and biographies, learning about other people's lives. Two of the ones that I loved so much were actually edited by the same person who edited my book, too. I loved 'Angela's Ashes.' I loved 'Glass Castle' so much.

There are so many memories for me in Manchester. Everywhere I go, I think, 'I used to have boutiques here, clubs there, restaurants in that area.'

I have amazing memories of being able to travel and being able to have family all over the world.

We're trying to create the connections of today that become the next generation's memories of tomorrow.

Long-term memory involves enduring changes that result from the growth of new synaptic connections.

I don't get mentioned in too many things that deal with hip-hop, really, because I'm not really friends with anybody. Not in the way where I'm enemies with them; I just don't meet people.

At 22, and on my fourth day in New York, I was lucky enough to meet my mentor.

Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an uncanny ability to make friends and find mentors.