Weak Ties Quotes

#1. To a certain extent, Ruef's and Burt's research is a validation of the celebrated "strength of weak ties" argument first proposed by Mark Granovetter,

Steven Johnson

#2. ....when it comes to finding out about new jobs - or, for that matter, new information, or new ideas - "weak ties" are always more important than strong ties.

Mark Granovetter

#3. The Ben Franklin Effect: If weak ties do favors for us, they start to like us. Then they become even more likely to grant us additional favors in the future. Franklin decided that if he wanted to get someone in his side, he ought to ask for a favor. And he did.

Meg Jay

#4. We are more willing to offend someone with whom we have weak ties, and a willingness to offend is an important part of creativity. Strong ties make us feel good, make us feel that we belong, but they also constrict our worldview.

Eric Weiner

#5. By cultivating rich social networks, by cultivating weak ties, not just close ties but the weak ties, by becoming connectors and by connecting others so that they connect us, we create a world in which these self-amplifying feedback loops feed on top of each other.

Jason Silva

#6. The structure of 'March' was laid down for me before the first line was written, because my character has to exist within Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Women' plotline.

Geraldine Brooks

#7. As long as you believe it ... you can and will achieve it. Now that the ball is in your court ... go for it!

Timothy Pina

#8. More triumphant stories rainbowed around the

Maya Angelou

#9. I became Vulnerability TED, like an action figure - like Ninja Barbie, but I'm Vulnerability TED.

Brene Brown

#10. Everything's uglier up close.

John Green

#11. Living in your genome is the history of our species.

Barry Schuler

#12. The way you get good ideas is to do two things: 1) Read two hours a day. 2) Write ten ideas a day. By the end of a year, you will have read for almost one thousand hours and written down 3,600 ideas. One of these ideas will be a home run.

James Altucher

#13. Sometimes I lie awake at night thinking about all the dumb things I do every day ... If I live to be eighty and I do ten dumb things each day ... That would be about two hundred and ninety thousand dumb things ... When you add up all the dumb things you do, it's best to use round figures ...

Charles M. Schulz

#14. I've always kind of known what I like and what I don't. And never felt any pressure to wear certain things or watch certain things ... It's hard to explain, but I've just always felt it.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

#15. The 'difference' = What you say you'll do - what you actually do

George Akomas Jr

#16. Be faithful anywhere you find yourself

Sunday Adelaja

#17. It's not too far; it just seems like it is.

Yogi Berra

#18. It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#19. As a writer, I try to do different things, but I'm not going to become a darker artist or turn into Radiohead overnight. I don't think that's my style.

Eliza Doolittle

#20. I'm an economist, not a political scientist.

Dambisa Moyo