Connectors Quotes

• All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, People, Good Leader

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• We think that this is just our world and we don't know what other people are thinking. Music actually is a phenomenal connector in that respect. It's a special language that defines certain boundaries and connects people in a particular way, a very emotional way, I have found.

  Annie Lennox

  Emotional, Thinking, Our World

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• We as educators need to reconsider our roles in students' lives, to think of ourselves as connectors first and content experts second.

  Will Richardson

  Teaching, Thinking, Experts

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• Art matters because it is the one true great connector in a world that seems to be very unconnected.

  Josh Groban

  Art, World, Matter

  "Art Talk with Josh Groban". Interview with Paulette Beete, www.arts.gov. August 6, 2014.

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• Good storytelling is humanity's great connector, and it just might keep the world from eating itself.

  James Genn

  Humanity, World, Might

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• It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.

  Nat Friedman

  Ratios, Software, Higher

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• We are all either wheels or connectors. Whichever we are we must find truth and balance, which is a bicycle. Trust and balance are also essential to true love.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Balance, Essentials, Wheels

  Source: virtualstudiosandarttherapy.wordpress.com

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• I'm like a vessel, and God has chosen me to be the voice and the connector.

  Kanye West

  Inspirational, Sleep, Voice

  "FADER 58: Kanye West Cover Story and Interview". Interview with Peter Macia, www.thefader.com. November 25, 2008.

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• The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.

  Wendell Berry

  Community, Age, Care

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.70, Counterpoint

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• The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

  Wendell Berry

  Journey, Garden, Land

  "The Unsettling of America". Book by Wendell Berry, 1977.

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• For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.

  Amanda Palmer

  Stars, Motivation, Inspiration

  "How the Internet Is Changing Music (Feat. Amanda Palmer on Vocals)" by Rob Brooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2013.

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• Dreams are one of your greatest natural therapies, and one of your most effective assets as connectors between the interior and exterior universes.

  Jane Roberts

  Dream, Natural, Assets

  Jane Roberts (2011). “The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know”, p.246, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• There will always be crazy things that happen in our lives, but love is the central connector. If we commit to love and partnership, the other stuff doesnt matter.

  Hill Harper

  Crazy, Love Is, Matter

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• Music is the great connector.

  Ted Nugent

  Music Is

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• The funny thing is that even engineers and techs don't know what a tiny telephone connector is - people call them TT connectors. Engineers used to come by all the time and say, "Why are you called Tiny Telephone?"

  John Vanderslice

  Funny Things, People, Tiny

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A major change is afoot as we combine both WPZ and Access into the large scale natural gas infrastructure MLP. And the team here at WPZ is very energized right now as we're on the verge of a major $1 billion boost in our annual cash flows that we expect to come from three major projects Geismar, Gulfstar and the Keathley Canyon Connector all of which have reached the commissioning stage here in the fourth quarter.

  Alan Armstrong

  Team, Cash Flow, Three

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• These new prospective projects include the Appalachian Connector and the Diamond East projects, both are major new projects that connect the burgeoning supplies from the Marcellus and Utica directly to growing demand on Transco that is anxious to see the supplies coming their way as those markets strive to grow as well.

  Alan Armstrong

  East, Growing, Demand

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• I went and I started teaching computers to young kids, to fifth graders at first, later to sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth graders. I also started teaching teachers. And that was back in the days when we'd wire up the labs ourselves and crimp on the Ethernet connectors and then we would.

  Steve Wozniak

  Teacher, Teaching, Kids

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

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• Think of it: the lowest common denominator in being digital is not your operating system, modem, or model of computer. It's a tiny piece of plastic, designed decades ago by Bell Labs' Charles Krumreich, Edwin Hardesty, and company, who thought they were making an inconspicuous plug for a few telephone handsets. Not in their wildest dreams was Registered Jack 11 - a modular connector more commonly known as the RJ-11 - meant to be plugged and unplugged so many times, by so many people, for so many reasons, all over the world.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Dream, Thinking, People

  "RJ-11". Nicholas Negroponte's letter to WIRED Ventures Ltd., web.media.mit.edu. April 1, 1998.

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• Starting epidemics requires concentrating resources on a few key area. The Law of the Few says that Connectors, Mavens, and Salesman are responsible for starting word-of-mouth epidemics, which means that if you are interested in starting a word-of-mouth epidemic , your resources ought to be solely concentrated on these three groups. No one else matters.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Mean, Keys, Epidemics

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