Quotes about Connection

Waiting isn't easy, which is precisely why it is so effective when engaging with other people.

We don't need more noise, more variety, or more pitches. There's noise all around us, but it's often the idle chatter of people hiding in plain sight, or the selfish hustle of one more person who wants something from you. Our world is long on noise and short on meaningful connections and positive leadership.

It's not an effort contest, it's an art contest. As customers, we care about ourselves, about how we feel, about whether a product or service or play or interaction changed us for the better. Where it's made or how it's made or how difficult it was to make is sort of irrelevant. That's why emotional labor is so much more valuable than physical labor. Emotional labor changes the recipient, and we care about that. Soft

The way we make things better is by caring enough about those we serve to imagine the story that they need to hear.

Empathy is at the heart of marketing People don't believe what you believe. They don't know what you know. They don't want what you want. It's true, but we'd rather not accept this. Sonder is defined as that moment when you realize that everyone around you has an internal life as rich and as conflicted as yours. Everyone has noise in their heads.

When you meet someone, you need to have a superpower.

students today are educated collecting dots. Almost none of it spent teaching them the skills necessary to connect dots. The magic of connecting dots is that once you learn the techniques, the dots can change but you'll still be good at connecting them.

It's not enough to find a niche that shares a worldview. That niche has to be ready and able to influence a large group of their friends.

My friend didn't understand what it means to be in the world, to be present and aware.

Work that matters for people who care is the shortest, most direct route to making a difference.

Humans are lonely, and they want to be seen and known.

As we saw earlier, it takes only two things to turn a group of people into a tribe: • A shared interest • A way to communicate