#connections

All those trucks and barges that carry our goods to port are vital connections to the only force which can balance our trade deficit: export. We must keep doing what we do best if we are going to get America out of the red. ↗

— Jo Ann Emerson

#balance #best #carry #connections #deficit

We might not know we are seeking people who best enrich our lives, but somehow on a deep subconscious level we absolutely are. Whether the bond is temporary or permanent, whether it succeeds or fails, fate is simply a configuration of choices that combine with others to shape the relationships that surround us. We cannot choose our family, but we can choose our friends, and we sometimes, before we even meet them. ↗

— Simon Pegg

#fate #friendships #life #family

If only you could really use a fail-proof system to know who was worth keeping and who needed to be thrown away. It would make it so much easier to move through the world, picking and choosing what connections to make, or whether to make any at all. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#personal-relationships #connection

I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other people, experiences, or tasks. It happens sometimes when you are lost in a hard challenge, or when an artist or a craftsman becomes one with the brush or the tool. It happens sometimes while you’re playing sports, or listening to music or lost in a story, or to some people when they feel enveloped by God’s love. And it happens most when we connect with other people. I’ve come to think that happiness isn’t really produced by conscious accomplishments. Happiness is a measure of how thickly the unconscious parts of our minds are intertwined with other people and with activities. Happiness is determined by how much information and affection flows through us covertly every day and year. ↗

— David Brooks

#affection #connections #consciousness #happiness #information

Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#cherish #connections #friends #friends and family #human

The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want. ↗

— Seth Godin

#connections #future #having #knowledge #publishing

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world. ↗

— Vincent Canby

#between #connections #curiosity #else #exploits

What is more important is that Foreign Service Officers understand business, about the needs of U.S. business and how to help U.S. companies make the right connections abroad. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#abroad #business #companies #connections #foreign

A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy. ↗

— David Eagleman

#billions #brain #connections #galaxy #given

The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life. ↗

— Charles Eames

#details #end #give #in the end #life