I’m increasingly convinced it’s much easier (and happier) to assume strangers are friends you haven’t met yet, than to assume strangers will remain strangers.
I’m increasingly convinced it’s much easier (and happier) to assume strangers are friends you haven’t met yet, than to assume strangers will remain strangers.
So, if talking to strangers seems daunting to you, it might help to think that by doing so, you could give someone the gift of being seen.
Gillian Sandstrom • Why you should talk to strangers | BPS
You may also think you won’t be able to make enough new connections to create your own personal explosion of network circuits (that, too, is not true).
Gene Stone • Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie • How To Win Friends and Influence People
Start thinking of strangers as people who can bring new dimensions to your life, not as persons to be feared.