Quotes About Connections

Julie Christie, I used to hang out with her. She was friends with Richard Pryor and Warren Beatty and all of them. There was a club in Beverly Hills called the Candy Store, a private club. I used to hang out with them all.

I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars.

Maybe we are all Beths, boarding other people's life journeys, or letting them hop aboard ours. For a while we ride together. A few minutes, a few miles. Companions on the road, sharing our air and our view, our feet swaying to the same beat. Then you get off at your stop, or I get off at mine. Unless we decide to stay on longer together. p 251

in a system where relationships are the currency of exchange.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

In the latest brain image studies, we can see real-time movies of individual interneuronal connections actually creating new synapses (connection points between neurons), so we can see our brain create our thoughts and in turn see our thoughts create our brain.

The genes describe certain rules and constraints for patterns of interneuronal connections, but the actual connections we have as adults are the result of a self-organizing process based on our learning. The final result—who we are—is deeply influenced by both nature (genes) and nurture (experience).

Moreover, the detailed arrangement of connections and synapses in a given region is a direct product of how extensively that region is used. As brain scanning has attained sufficiently high resolution to detect dendritic-spine growth and the formation of new synapses, we can see our brain grow and adapt to literally follow our thoughts. This gives new shades of meaning to Descartes' dictum "I think therefore I am.

Tal y como dice el neurocientífico del MIT Sebastian Seung, "la identidad no depende de nuestros genes, sino de las conexiones entre nuestras células cerebrales" (

I have been up to my head just with calling people, I call about 50 to 100 people a day.

Everyone is someone else's catalyst for selling something these days.

Celebrities meet a lot of people and we just can't maintain them all in our fuddled brains.

Celebrity gets you access to world leaders.

I don't have big time celebrity friends - I'm just a guy.

I think life is a chain of events.

Chances are if I am the one to cosign people, they will become a big part of the industry.

I have friends who play for Chelsea, Liverpool, and Manchester United.

I still cherish relationships that I made early on as much as anything in my life.

When I lived in Chicago, it often felt like the same people who were going to all the little theater companies were the people who were working in them.

I like to write about a lot of things, which is why my books are different. This is probably why I don't like to write sequels, but chiefly I like to write about people.

'Bond' was like Christmas: can't wait for it to come around. Being in the films brought me to a global audience, and I have had the opportunity to meet incredible people.

Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible.

I don't know how to put it, but I don't have many friends. All my friends circle was in Madras, and I lost touch with them. But I'm friends with all my directors, and they are very important for me.

I only hang about with people I don't feel awkward around. I don't let many people into my circle.