The Art of Connection Quotes

“You can change your life by changing the way you think about yourself and your potential.”
― Michael J Gelb, The Art of Connection: 7 Relationship-Building Skills Every Leader Needs Now

“True humility emerges from a sense of wonder and awe. It’s an appreciation that our time on earth is limited but that there’s something timeless at the core of every being. Embracing humility liberates us from the egotism that drives both perfectionism and self-sabotage, opening us to a deeper experience of self-worth.”
― Michael J Gelb, The Art of Connection: 7 Relationship-Building Skills Every Leader Needs Now

“Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offences, and they cannot hurt your feelings. — LEONARDO DA VINCI”
― Michael J. Gelb, The Art of Connection: 7 Relationship-Building Skills Every Leader Needs Now

“liberate ourselves from the tendency to view the world exclusively from a limiting binary filter, cultivating a consciousness that is more objective. This objectivity also allows us to avoid taking things personally when it isn’t constructive to do so. We can be open and accessible without being attached to what the poet Rumi (1207–73) calls the “wind of personal reaction.”
― Michael J. Gelb, The Art of Connection: 7 Relationship-Building Skills Every Leader Needs Now