Connecting Quotes - Page 2

• When you focus on life, on enjoying and connecting with other people, that's when work comes. When you focus on work, you can never work. I'm always going through waves of that.

  Alia Shawkat

  People, Focus, Wave

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let's just keep asking ourselves this question: 'Is what I'm about to do strengthening the web of connections, or is it weakening it?'

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Connections, Asking, Strengthening

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• It seems that in connecting to what is true within myself, I help other people to connect. Making genuine connection lies at the beginning of building a real community.

  Lily Yeh

  Real, Lying, Helping Others

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• A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Conceited, Persons, Small Packages

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1971). “The Real Problems of Real People: Solutions for Christians”

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• I think our culture views success as visibility, being seen as being successful. Whereas I've learned that success is rooted in helping and connecting to other people, and knowing where you can contribute. I've kind of spent my thirties doing that, because in my twenties I was seeking any kind of success.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Successful, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The power to share has already turned once-solitary activities into social occasions.

  Melinda Blau

  Social, Share, Solitary

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• Creative expression is not just a means of getting attention, although some have approached art that way. Think of art as a way of connecting, of sharing your insights with others.

  Nita Leland

  Art, Mean, Thinking

  Nita Leland (2006). “The New Creative Artist”, p.19, North Light Books

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• Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Mean, Alive

  "Jeff Koons on drawing as a means of articulating an idea". Interview with Dale Berning, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.

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• Surround yourself with a loving community.

  Susan Harrison

  Community, Surround Yourself, Surround

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• The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.

  Pema Chodron

  Joy, Resentment, Obstacles

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.31, Shambhala Publications

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• Creativity is just connecting things.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Creativity

  "Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

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• God is not an exclamation point. He is, at his best, a semicolon, connecting people, and generating what Aldous Huxley called “human grace.” Somewhere along the way, we’ve lost sight of this.

  Eric Weiner

  Exclamation Points, Sight, People

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• A rewarding relationship occurs when there is a common spiritual goal, shared spiritual values and a mutual desire to build a relationship upon a spiritual foundation and for the purpose of connecting to the light of the creator.

  Yehuda Berg

  Spiritual, Light, Goal

  Yehuda Berg (2010). “The Kabbalah Book of Sex: & Other Mysteries of the Universe (Large Print 16pt)”, p.260, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

  Max Lucado

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Max Lucado (2015). “Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life”, p.101, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.

  John Green

  Religious, Ideas, Action

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.147, Penguin

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• I’ve come to believe that connecting is one of the most important business—and life—skill sets you’ll ever learn. Why? Because, flat out, people do business with people they know and like. Careers—in every imaginable field—work the same

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Believe, Skills, Careers

  Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2014). “Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.19, Crown Business

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• I'm equally guilty of using technology - I Twitter, I text people, I chat. But I think there's something strangely insidious about it that it makes us think we're closer when in fact we're not seeing each other, we're not connecting.

  Jason Reitman

  Thinking, Technology, People

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• The most important thing for people to get is we're not even looking at one big investigation, all these agents working together. They were chopped up and divided, but because I worked in the central place... other agents were sending their material to me... I was in this position to see all the dots being connected... These agents, while I was there, because I was the central person, they started connecting the dots.

  Sibel Edmonds

  People, Working Together, Important

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• I love sharing my stories and experiences with people and connecting to them on both a humorous and emotional level.

  Tori Spelling

  Humorous, Emotional, People

  "Tori Spelling to Pen Third Book" by Julie Jordan, people.com. January 07, 2010.

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• We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.

  David Suzuki

  Children, Dirty, Naughty

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• I do enjoy manga but would not consider myself a 'super-fan,' only really connecting with certain works such as 'Lone Wolf and Cub,' or 'Tekkon Kinkreet,' the more breakthrough works, and 'Akira,' to me, is the daddy of them all.

  Gerard Way

  Daddy, Fans, Lone Wolf

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• Real change comes from finding and embracing and connecting and amplifying those that are inclined to like you and believe in you. Ideas spread from person to person, not so much from you to them. So find your biggest fans and give them a story to tell.

  Seth Godin

  Real, Believe, Ideas

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• I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.

  Will Smith

  Thinking, Collective Unconscious, Ideas

  "Will Smith Interview - I AM LEGEND". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. December 10, 2007.

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• NVC self-forgiveness: connecting with the need we were trying to meet when we took the action that we now regret.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Regret, Communication, Self

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• Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?

  Elif Safak

  Land, People, Culture

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