Quotes About Connections

I have many dear friends in the film industry, but finally, the roles come to me on merit, not because of personal equations.

I used to hate L.A., but I met such a great group of people there that I fell in love with it.

I have met almost everyone I've wanted to meet.

For 'Seabiscuit', I interviewed 100 people I never met.

I think my heart will always be made of metal, but it would be ignorant of me and kind of foolish to ignore the other emotional connections you can make in all kinds of music.

Miami has a big Argentinian, how you say, society, living here, so I meet them everywhere.

One of my dear friends became Michael Jordan. That gave me a lot of access there. But I had access to everybody from Larry Bird to Magic Johnson to all of the other guys.

In the early '80s, I happened to find myself in the vicinity of people who would work for Microsoft five years later.

Mike Pence not only knows the Capitol. He knows the players in the House and the Senate. He knows how the committee system works. But he also knows all the governors. And so that really brings a unique talent to the picture.

The NFL is a brotherhood - if you think about all the millions of people that live in America and there's 1,900 people in the NFL. That's not that many, so everybody knows each other.

I've always been of the mindset that relationships can be different and relationships can go bad with different people. That doesn't mean they're going to be a bad relationship with me.

I once had Rachel McAdams over for lunch, when she was with Michael Sheen, who's a friend of mine.

I've known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was 'Along Came Polly.'

The amazing thing about books is how they have lives of their own.

I think success really involves the situations you get yourself into and the people you meet

No one can be successful by themselves. It's the relationships that you develop with the people around you.

Betsy DeVos's brother, Erik Prince, founded the private contracting firm Blackwater

Statistics and data about the importance of connections can only go so far in convincing us to make our relationships strong and vibrant. There is a more urgent wisdom that comes from our hearts: a realization that something has gone missing; a longing for the attachments that make life rich and full.

the realization that my life is not the sum of who loved me - but rather the sum of who I have loved.

Friends, no. But I would not waste my exertions cultivating anyone as an enemy.

Like most of the connections that explain the pain in our hearts, he couldn't bring it to mind. He couldn't see the truth because it was too big and it was right in front of him.

Why go to all the trouble of meeting new people if you're not going to work on making them a part of your life?

And the rule in life that has unprecedented power is that the individual who knows the right people, for the right reasons, and utilizes the power of these relationships, can become a member of the "club," whether he started out as a caddie or not.

Sticking to the people we know is a tempting behavior. But unlike some forms of dating. A networker isn't looking to achieve only a single successful union. Creating an enriching circle of trusted relationships requires one to be out there, in the mix, all the time.