Connecting with Strangers Quotes

It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.

I think, as a comedian, the funniest you can be is with people you know, and [whom] you've known for years, in a pub. That's as funny as you get, and so the aim [while stand-up] is to get that funny on stage with 5,000 strangers, to get that funny in a room where people shouldn't be listening but they are.

I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.

One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.

This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.

In the past, a writer had to go outside and get to know others before learning about their work, but the Internet has made humanity more accessible for misanthropes like me. I read blogs, tweets, Facebook posts and Reddit threads where people detail their jobs.

I resisted Twitter for a long time. To me, it was synonymous with networking, which in my mind means unceasing self-promotion and superficial small-talk with strangers. A little like wading into a river with a raging current - and I'm a terrible swimmer.

I miss people. I miss going anywhere and meeting a random person and saying 'Hi' and having a conversation about life. I love people.

It is an extraordinary act of courage,' said Tulas Shorn, 'to come to know a stranger's pain.

The way the Facebook network is set up, it's not as suitable for content discovery. Twitter is better, but there are too many over-sharers. Also, on Twitter and Facebook, everything comes from people you know. On StumbleUpon, it comes from people that you don't necessarily know but share your interests.

At a festival, the people there are not all your fans, and this gives me a chance to win over new people. I look at it as a challenge.

I love social media and the ability to connect to new people through Twitter and Facebook and share my real time experiences with my mommy network.

I love going into a dive where they have no idea who I am or haven't heard my music and try to win them over.

I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.

I like to reminisce with people I don't know.

Talking to hosts and asking them, 'What does Airbnb mean to you?'... I get amazingly heartfelt stories about the people that they met, about the money that they earned, about the mindset of empowerment they got through this and how they then applied that to their own business.

No one even has to leave their computer to find cool and interesting people to hang out with. Everyone is online in some form.

At a time when everything seems so out of control and the people you've elected are bogus and there's so much random violence and hatred, it fills you with such hope and admiration to even be part for a short time in a community where people have connected to strangers to try to put out a hand.

I notice when I'm at a party where I don't know anybody - even if I have nothing in common with somebody - we can still talk because we were raised by the same TV and cartoons and movies.