Connections Quotes - Page 15

People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.

Recent literature on transsexualism in the lesbian community draws connections with the practices of sadomasochism.

Why do we value leadership, connection and grace? Because it's scarce, and that scacity creates value.

Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.

The great irony to Dirk [Gently] is that he sees connections in everything, but the one thing he fails and struggles with most is connecting with other people.

And yet, even so, there is a way to find happiness. That is to be curious about all of the interlocking events that add up to our lives. To notice connections. To be amused or perhaps frightened by the ways things work out. If the universe is indifferent, what a consolation that we are not.

We establish a connection with the unknown through the act of giving something and, paradoxically, the act of destroying something. That is what is behind sacrifice. What you offer and what you destroy, it is that surplus which is life itself.

Succeeding in business is all about making connections

The moment you go in, all connections with the outside world are broken; all bridges are broken. In fact, the whole world disappears.

The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.

It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Roosevelt did, as John F. Kennedy did, as Ronald Reagan did.

I feel it's my duty as a human being, as a person who is trying - like everybody else who thinks about the state of the world - to enhance the importance of multicultural connection.

I don't know if I ever really considered making a connection with the audience.

Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.

Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection.

The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all.

University is sheltered from the business world and they think they should not have any connection with the businesses because maybe the business is dirty or not very good.

I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them.

Own your failure openly, publicly, with genuine regret but absolutely no shame, and you’ll reap a harvest of forgiveness, trust, respect, and connection-the things you thought you’d get by succeeding. Ironic, isn’t it?

All you need is a laptop or a PC and an Internet connection and you can pretty much do almost anything and create almost any type of company.

The things people really want are love, connection, and purpose.

The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.

For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.

There is a vital connection between satyagraha and charkha, and the more I find that belief challenged, the more I am confirmed in it.