Wired To Connect Quotes

#1. Therefore, reading and reacting to other people's behaviors, emotions, and attitudes have been hardwired into our brains. We are not only wired to connect, but we are also wired to attune to, resonate with, and learn from others.

Louis Cozolino

#2. We all came into this world wired to connect with all life.

Linda Bender

#3. Trust me, there's not one night a week I'm not in a theater somewhere. I adore theater, and I go out with friends, so I do have some nights off.

Joan Rivers

#4. He was a mystery to unravel, a puzzle I desperately wanted to solve.

Kendall Ryan

#5. Many spiritual teachers have done this. They have disbanded their whole community because everyone got angry. The karma, at a certain point, has to go back to the person; it's intensified and hurts them spiritually.

Frederick Lenz

#6. There can be no formula in arts. Formulas are for factory mass productions. There are no discoveries in already discovered formulas.

Signe Baumane

#7. Sometimes people surprise us. People we believe we know.

Joyce Carol Oates

#8. I prided myself on working as hard as I could, trying to overcome a learning diability.

Jeremy Bonderman

#9. A society like the Church, which claims to be Divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it contains then on account of the evil which sullies it. Something of the social labelled divine: an intoxicating mixture which carries with it every sort of license. Devil disguised.

Simone Weil

#10. The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.

Soren Kierkegaard

#11. When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and they're writing about a book about a writer who's a critic. So I think it's really hard for people to distance themselves from what they're criticizing.

Chuck Klosterman

#12. The body ages, grows, passes through near-lunatic phases of reproductive frenzy, but you are born and die essentially the same person.
That ... that is proof of your deathless soul.

Chuck Palahniuk

#13. Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.

Sharon Salzberg