Connected Quotes - Page 5

• But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Forests, Quiet

  25 Copy quote

• Nothing fortuitous happens in a child's world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.

  John Berger

  Children, World, Young

  John Berger (2011). “A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor”, p.122, Vintage

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• We live in a world where everything is connected. We can not longer think in terms of us and them when it comes to the consequences of the way we live. Today it's all about WE.

  Gregg Braden

  Thinking, Live For Today, World

  Gregg Braden (2015). “Resilience from the Heart: The Power to Thrive in Life's Extremes”, p.163, Hay House, Inc

  104 Copy quote

  Show source

• America is a country that is now utterly divided when it comes to its society, its economy, its politics. There are definitely two Americas. I live in one, on one block in Baltimore that is part of the viable America, the America that is connected to its own economy, where there is a plausible future for the people born into it.

  David Simon

  Country, Block, Two

  "David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show'". www.theguardian.com. December 07, 2013.

  47 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

  Andrew Denton

  Hate, People, Individual

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.

  Ted Nelson

  Wall, Spring, Ideas

  8 Copy quote

• When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

  Steve Jobs

  Creativity, Artist, Obvious Things

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.35, Prabhat Prakashan

  76 Copy quote

  Show source

• The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

  Benjamin Banneker

  African American, Intellectual, Mind

  133 Copy quote

• ...the world is a giant community now. This excuse of distance, time, doesn't work...We're all so connected. We can't spend every second of our lives worrying about another family miles away but we somehow have to factor it in where we can.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Distance, Helping Others, Worry

  17 Copy quote

• Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body...are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Clouds, Crucible

  20 Copy quote

• You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.

  Ice T

  Records, Labels, Dissing

  8 Copy quote

• I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.

  Salmon P. Chase

  White, Office, Black

  8 Copy quote

• Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality.

  Thomas Cech

  Biology, Breakthrough, Phenomenon

  "Funding above and beyond scientific research". Interview with Holger Breithaupt, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. September 15, 2001.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Art, Architecture, Painting

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand.

  Patrick McHenry

  Hands, Terror Attacks, Plot

  7 Copy quote

• Everything connected with war and warlike exploits is interesting to a boy.

  James Nasmyth

  War, Boys, Interesting

  James Nasmyth (2010). “James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography”, p.52, BoD – Books on Demand

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I want to take roles that challenge me and I want to like the script and obviously feel connected with the director because the director to me is so important.

  Amy Smart

  Challenges, Important, Directors

  "IGN For Men Interview: Amy Smart". Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. August 26, 2001.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't think anyone connected with Five-O believed the show would last as long as it did.

  James MacArthur

  Thinking, Long, Lasts

  7 Copy quote

• From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed.

  Daniel J. Bernstein

  Perspective, Ifs, Security

  7 Copy quote

• The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Art, Self, Sufficient

  Kurt Schwitters, Werner Schmalenbach, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (1965). “Kurt Schwitters: a retrospective exhibition”

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• The more things we can laugh about, the more alive we become: The more things we can laugh about together, the more connected we become.

  Frank Pittman

  Love, Positive, Marriage

  41 Copy quote

• Be more loving, compassionate and understanding with ourselves, with others, and with the planet, because we are all connected. We are one.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Understanding, Planets, Compassionate

  8 Copy quote

• We all are now very aware of what a connected world we live in - connected to each other and to the earth that gives us everything we have. We need all countries and companies to step up and play their part - setting strong goals, having clear plans, and openly demonstrating progress.

  Richard Branson

  Country, Strong, Play

  6 Copy quote

• As a net is made up of a series of ties, so everything in this world is connected by a series of ties. If anyone thinks that the mesh of a net is an independent, isolated thing, he is mistaken. It is called a net because it is made up of a series of interconnected meshes, and each mesh has its place and responsibility in relation to other meshes.

  Gautama Buddha

  Independent, Responsibility, Thinking

  15 Copy quote

• All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Art, Men, Blood

  7 Copy quote