Quotes About Connections

The people you need to help you make your dream come true are everywhere, and within your reach.

Acquaintance, n: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

I don't even have an agent or manager, but rather have a number of associates who I turn to when needed; or conversely when they hear of someone looking for me they'll contact me.

My cousin's dad is MC Hammer, and another one of my cousins is Zaytoven. We all grew up together and it's interesting to see how we turned out.

I don't know if we will ever try again because those sort of things are very hard to organise but yes, I've known Doon for years and John as well but I hadn't met Will before, and he turned out to be a good laugh.

It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world.

It turns out that social networks drive a heck of a lot of traffic to blogs.

No matter how much we tweet, blog and post, nothing in business is as powerful as actual face time with prospective business partners and customers.

I've had my fair share of tweets, DMs, emails, Facebook Messages and friends trying to set me up with friends.

Lotta people don't realize when you grow up with people, you have an affinity, a relationship you don't get with anyone else. After you're twenty years old, anyone you meet after that, it's different from the people you knew before.

I try to come to Asia twice a year. I also go to Europe - to London as well as to France to see my family - four or five times a year.

I like to go to the airport looking stylish - you never know who youll run into. Sometimes I have fans at the airports. I never want to be bummy looking.

I have plenty of money to do what I want to do, and I have the relationships.

Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.

I thank God that I have been meeting so many people who want to help me.

I don't have the advocates. I don't have a good old boys network. Part of what I want to do is to create a good old girls network.

It's easy to be a cardinal when your cousin is the pope.

it occurred to her how some people continued through no design of one's own to be in one's life while others might initially enter in a sort of blaze and seem to change everything but then might not stay around.

Facebook isn't helping you make new connections, Facebook doesn't develop new relationships, Facebook is just trying to be the most accurate model of your social graph. There's a part of me that feels somewhat bored by all of this.

We all maintained our connections and our friendships, which we've maintained over all these years. We still like each other, love each other, and we realize that this was a way to heal and a way to really bring Ricky back into the mix. I think a lot of the songs recalled that time in Athens with Ricky.

Chapman pushes internships a lot, and starting the summer of sophomore year we started interning because we knew that was the best way to make connections.

Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.

When my co-founder and I first had the idea for IronPort, an email security company, we triangulated a list of the 20 most relevant people in email - former CEOs, open source technologists, investors and thought leaders.

When fundraising, your network is critical. Leveraging it early and often is the key. Don't make the mistake of waiting until you need money to engage sources of capital.