Connections Quotes - Page 2

• I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.

  Anita Desai

  Character, Trying, Stories

  "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.

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• With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Powerful, Work, Phones

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• Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate the course of phenomena in each particular laboratory; thus I resolved the digestive canal into several separate parts.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Cutting, Order, Chemicals

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• Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.

  Carol P. Christ

  Nature, Meditation, Bird

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• A leader who loses his connection to his people soon loses the ability to lead them.

  Robert Ley

  Leadership, People, Ability

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• The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

  Stanislav Grof

  Play, Important, Roles

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• A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

  Robert Morgan

  Discovery, Voice, Doe

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• I just feel a connection with Marilyn Monroe. I just love her. I just completely feel what she went through.

  Anna Nicole Smith

  Feels

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• Researches at Yale found a connection between brain cancer and work environment. The No. 1 most dangerous job for developing brain cancer? Plutonium hat model.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Jobs, Cancer, Yale

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• Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Marriage, Wind, Weather

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• Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Success, Powerful, Communication

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• Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Reality, Enthusiasm, Youth

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.

  Matthew Simpson

  Angel, Men, Fire

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.

  Lisa Bonet

  Atheist, Parent, Atheism

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs.

  Tracy Chapman

  Song, Trying, Records

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• The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process.

  Edward Thorndike

  Dog, Fashion, Hands

  Edward Thorndike (2017). “Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies”, p.322, Routledge

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• All those trucks and barges that carry our goods to port are vital connections to the only force which can balance our trade deficit: export. We must keep doing what we do best if we are going to get America out of the red.

  Jo Ann Emerson

  America, Balance, Red

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• These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Distance, Communication, Long

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• These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness.

  Dave Sim

  Reality, Ideas, Justice

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• A large part of my life revolves around my dad. Sometimes, I even feel a strong sense of connection, something very tangible when I learn something new in the martial arts.

  Brandon Lee

  Art, Strong, Dad

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• 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.

  Steven Pinker

  People, Political, Today

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• The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.

  Steven Pinker

  Book, Political, Enlightenment

  "A biological understanding of human nature". Edge Interview, www.edge.org. September 8, 2002.

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• Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

  Gro Harlem Brundtland (1993). “Population, Environment and Development”

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• You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Silly, Eye, Serious

  "A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• I know it sounds crazy, but I have had far more connection with my parents after their deaths.

  Lynn Johnston

  Crazy, Parent, Sound

  Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. 1994.

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