Connections Quotes - Page 31

Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.

Monopathy, or over-specialisation, eventually retreats into defending what one has learnt rather than making new connections. The initial spurt of learning gives out, and the expert is left, like an animal, merely defending his territory.

Due process requires some definite link, some minimum connection, between a state and the person, property or transaction it seeks to tax.

You can't make somebody care about what you're doing. Either they get it, either there's that connection - or they don't.

But the rhythm of the mix tape is the rhythm of romance, the analog hum of a physical connection between two sloppy, human bodies.

No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe.

I know as far as things like the Thunderbirds, there's a New Zealand connection. X-Files, my connection there... I mean, it could be zeitgeist. I mean, I'm into the paranormal. I have a podcast about cryptozoology. So it's out there that I'm into weird stuff.

When you're improvising, you're relying on this connection to creativity.

Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.

How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed...connection?

In love relationships, there's such intimacy, and the potential to be the most vulnerable and honest and raw with another person. Why can't we have that transparency with everyone in our lives and reach that higher connection?

You get to be analytical about the process and now I can watch the movie and see all the different connection things and see all the things that are underneath the surface.

I associate my childhood with two things, mainly: the North Devon countryside and a sense of connection to another world.

It [moviemaking] is like a dream. When you're dreaming, you make some very strange connections between some random stuff and random people.

It's not necessarily what a family is typically supposed to look like. But it is what it is. It's about a connection and bond that everyone can identify with.

A frequent intercourse and intimate connection between two persons make them so like, that not only their dispositions are moulded like each other, but their very face and tone of voice contract a certain analogy.

If we keep practicing mental skills it is likely we can strengthen neural connections and make new connections.

Meditation is focused attention and the more we practise focusing our brains the more connections we build up.

You have to have a personal connection. You have to really want to do it, because if you don't, investing yourself personally, your thoughts, your emotions, yourself into a part, is something you're not going to want to do as much.

I’ve always liked edges, places where one thing becomes another…… transition zones, boundaries and borderlands. I like the mixing that happens, the juxtapositions, the collisions and connections. I like the way they help me see the world from a fresh angle.

Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.

All of us were tuned in during our early development but we lose our connection to intuition over time as other things come into play.

Just a tender sense of my own process, that holds something of my connection with the divine.

You can just look at a mountain and get a connection with God, you don't have to understand the mountain to feel that.

I did auditions at a club called the Comedy Connection. They wanted nothing to do with me. But one night they were doing a night of all women comics, and they invited me to do that.