Connections Quotes

“God always brings someone into your life that has traveled the same path and knows the rocks you climbed to get to the end of the trail.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not the same as our own and of which, without art, the landscapes would remain as unknown to us as those that may exist on the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinite space, worlds which, centuries after the extinction of the fire from which their light first emanated, whether it is called Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us still each one its special radiance.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time, Vol 6: Time Regained and A Guide to Proust

“Being the Magician isn't about being powerful when you have things and useless when you don't," Persephone said.
"The Magician sees what is out there and finds connections. The Magician can make anything magical.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“Grace will meet you in the valley, and her song will carry you home on the wind to another sky filled with ethereal beauty unfolding and love everlasting.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I was already at one remove before the Internet came along. I need another remove? Now I have to spend the time that I'm not doing the thing they're doing reading about them doing it? Streaming the clips of them doing it, commenting on how lucky they are to be doing all those things, liking and digging and bookmarking and posting and tweeting all those things, and feeling more disconnected than ever? Where does this idea of greater connection come from? I've never in my life felt more disconnected. It's like how the rich get richer. The connected get more connected while the disconnected get more disconnected. No thanks man, I can't do it. The world was a sufficient trial, Betsy, before Facebook.”
― Joshua Ferris, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

“There is no moment that exceeds in beauty that moment when one looks at a woman and finds that she is looking at you in the same way that you are looking at her. The moment in which she bestows that look that says, "Proceed with your evil plan, sumbitch." The initial smash on glance. The, the drawing near. This takes a long time, it seems like months, although only minutes pass, in fact. Languor is the word that describes this part of the process. Your persona floats toward her persona, over the Sea of Hesitation. Many weeks pass before they meet, but the weeks are days, or seconds. Still, everything is decided. You have slept together in the glance.”
― Donald Barthelme, Flying to America: 45 More Stories

“Life is made of connections. Who knows why fate throws things in our direction, but one thing's for sure, new things are there to offer value to our lives and teach us something new about ourselves. It's what makes life exciting.”
― Serina Hartwell

“All my life I have written letters - to our mother, our relatives, a wide circle of friends and acquaintance, to my husband, to you. Correspondence has always been as necessary to my happiness as a well-cooked dinner, and I've found it more sustaining for its generosity: an act of charity that returned to me a hundredfold...”
― Delia Sherman, The Porcelain Dove

“When I was little, I thought the stars were holes that God had cut into the sky so that the sun could shine through at night”
― Selana Kitt

“They say instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of clichés, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising. However, who has not hung on a scripture, a quote, a statement, only to stumble upon the key phrase that brought all things to a turning point? The greatest sermons and speeches were pieced together by illuminating thoughts that powered men to surpass their own commonness. It is the sparkling magic of letters forming words, and those words colliding with passion, that makes statements into wisdom.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Music is about more than connecting notes. It connects people!”
― Michele Jennae

“The greatest irony is that people with Rolodexes are no longer LinkedIn. And if that pun doesn't make sense, don’t ask anyone in your Rolodex to explain it.”
― Ryan Lilly, #Networking is people looking for people looking for people

“Never underestimate the collective strength of your weakest connections.”
― Ryan Lilly, #Networking is people looking for people looking for people

“social media isn’t about “marketing” your church or message; it’s about “connecting” with people who want to make your story part of their story.”
― Phil Cooke

“-Let us celebrate the joy and sorrow, Sidip suddenly recited, -the wonder and mystery of all we see, so that we might live and learn as we were meant to. They say of stardust we are formed, that the ocean flows through our veins, and our thoughts are of quantum particles strung together by slender threads of charged ions. Therefore all things are connected, all things have spirit, you, me, the animals, plants, rocks, the oceans, planets, stars and the whole universe, these quantum particles are forming webs of awareness focusing at the centre where dwells the collective unconsciousness of all that has and ever will exist.”
― Andrew James Pritchard, To Revolt Is a People's Right

“We never stopped being each other.”
― Alicen Grey

“Connect with people who are going where you are going. Don’t hate people. The person you may need later may be likened to the bridge you have destroyed after crossing it. You’ll need that bridge when returning.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“In certain company
Often the uninvited
We react
We transform one another”
― Michele L. Rivera, Something in Return

“Communication without a specific focus is just noise. It achieves little beyond taking time and energy.”
― David Amerland, Google+ Hangouts for Business: How to use Google+ Hangouts to Improve Brand Impact, Build Business and Communicate in Real-Time

“A recent survey said that 51% of Americans don't know any evangelicals – even casually.”
― Kevin Roose, The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University

“no matter how useful the electricity may be, it needs connections to function”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Distinctive Footprints Of Life: where are you heading towards?

“It’s great to spend time at a networking event with someone you know and like. But that’s not what you’re there for. Your goal is to expand your network by meeting new people.”
― Beth Ramsay, #Networking is people looking for people looking for people

“William has learned in his bones that survival takes the form of other people. They must know you, and for that to happen you must know them. Speak with them, charm them, and remember them.”
― Geoff Ryman, The King's Last Song

“Opportunities will often come at the unlikeliest of times. Sometimes they're because of instant connections.”
― Jason Landry, Instant Connections: Essays and Interviews on Photography

“A brand precedes, parallels, and leaves a path behind. What your brand will say, is saying, and has said matters more the deeper we go into the globalized, digitized, connection economy.”
― Ryan Lilly, #Networking is people looking for people looking for people

“Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush of warmth and euphoria puts you on a path to ruin.”
― Ron Suskind, A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

“It seems that the more we learn about our work, the easier and the more interesting it becomes to us. Tasks that used to be tedious now make sense, and we see how they're related to other elements of our jobs. Plus, they're easier to take care of now, so they don't bother us nearly as much when we need to do them. When we know more about our work and its ramifications, we can see the connections between what we do and the effects that those things have on other people.”
― Tom Walsh

“I find a source of love in everything that breathes, moves, touches, whispers, smiles. I wake up everyday to search and find love in the wild dream of loneliness.”
― Oceanic Heart A Piece of Paradise Your Majesty

“The most honorable part of a network are the hubs, not the nodes that lead to nowhere.”
― Ryan Lilly, #Networking is people looking for people looking for people

“Nationalist (forces around the world) could now more readily communicate and share their grievances, viewing themselves as similar groups, engaged in a common struggle for greater autonomy against control exerted from London or Paris.”
― Charles Emmerson, 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War