Quotes about Connection

If our identity gets broken, it affects our ability to connect. And I wonder if we're not all a lot better for each other than we previously thought. I know we're not perfect, but I wonder how many people are withholding the love they could provide because they secretly believe they have fatal flaws.

Jason decided to stop yelling at his daughter and, instead, created a better story to invite her into.

I only say this because a positive evolution happened in my life when I realized healthy relationships happen best between healthy people.

1) identifying what their customers wanted (to be seen and heard), (2) defining their customers' challenge (that people didn't recognize their hidden genius), and (3) offering their customers a tool they could use to express themselves (computers and smartphones). Each of these realizations are pillars in ancient storytelling and critical for connecting with customers.

When a person has no other persons he invents them because he was not designed to be alone, because it isn't good for a person to be alone.

I was talking to a homeless man at the laundry mat recently, and he said that when we reduce Christian spirituality to math we defile the Holy. I thought that was very beautiful and comforting because I have never been good at math.

It bears repeating. The more we talk about the problems our customers experience, the more interest they will have in our brand.

It's funny what happens to you when part of your heart gets born inside somebody else.

If we want to connect with customers, we have to stop blasting them with noise.

People want to be involved in a story that is larger than themselves.

Brands that give customers a voice in a larger narrative add value to their products by giving their customers a deeper sense of meaning.

Perhaps if we stop reducing the text to formulas for personal growth, we can read it as stories of imperfect humans having relations with a perfect God and come to understand the obvious message He is communicating to mankind.