Quotes About Connections

I culled my list of friends down to just meaningful relationships.

sacrificed to earn the small profit of occasional connections and new ideas that is earned by cultivating a significant presence on Twitter?

Perhaps most valuably of all, in the document that has come to be known as the Annals of Juan Bautista, we have the voluminous words of a group of indigenous artisans, church painters, and scribes who had close connections to both pipiltin (noble families) and macehualtin (commoners). These preserved their own thoughts, as well as many statements that others made in their hearing. They crafted a full work of history, a xiuhpohualli, as they understood the term.

Someone once said, People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. They forgot one other option: Some people come only to give us their contact information, let us know that we really need to get together sometime, and why don't we give them a call?

In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.

You meet people, you part ways, sometimes you cross paths again. Mostly, you don't.

So this was how it was. People entered your life. Some would stay. Some would not. Some would drift but would return to you.

En un cálculo de los sentimientos, nunca realmente sabes como la ausencia de una persona te afecta más que otra

I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.

Family is what it can be, not what it should be.

Forty percent of our social interactions happen with 5 other people, and 60 percent with only 15 others. It's hard to have a sustained conversation with more than 4 people. It's hard for an intensely committed group to be much more than 12 in number. And somewhere around 150 is a typical upper size for a close-knit community.

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.

Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for any one who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.

While the churchless continue to show some openness to high-touch, relational connections—pastoral home visits (27 percent), a phone call from a church (24 percent), a survey conducted with them about their interests (21 percent)—they are also increasingly resistant to other forms of outreach.

A cardinal tenet of conservatism is that social inertia is – and ought to be – strong. It discourages and, if necessary, defeats the political grandiosity of those who would attempt to engineer the future by rupturing connections with the past.

If I were on my own, packing some power, and for some reason not wanting to be found, I might lay low for a while. But I'd know sooner or later I'd have to come out and play, because whoever's looking for me would eventually find me. I'd start building some connections. The thing about a lone wolf? Once you corner it, it has no one to turn to.

Human life has sorrow; They who meet must part; He that is born must die;

casi todas nuestras penas surgen de nuestras relaciones con otras personas.

He had shown me letters he had received not only from Kafka but from Jakob Wassermann, Stefan Zweig, Romain Rolland, Ilya Ehrenburg, and Martin Buber.

A company is judged by the president it keeps.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

The great difference between voyages rests not in ships but in the people you meet on them.

Affinities are rare. They come but a few times in a life. It is awful to risk losing one when it arrives.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.