Contact Quotes - Page 38

• For heaven’s sake, if you don’t know someone’s name, just pretend you do. Do that thing everyone else does, where you vaguely say, “Nice to see you!” and make weak eye contact.

  Mindy Kaling

  Nice, Eye, Names

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.4, Crown/Archetype

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• Rocket," I said, straightening in the chair. "Donovan was just helping me with my contacts." Donovan raised his brows humorously. Rocket furrowed his. "Did you swallow them?

  Darynda Jones

  Rockets, Helping, Chairs

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet”, p.243, Macmillan

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• An orgasm is not what I want and I know it. What I want, need, is so much more than that. It's the connection.The exhilarating contact with this human being, a being that compels me like no other. I miss his touch, his kiss. I don't care if he gives me just a little kernel of what he can give; I'm just starving to be fed, and my body has never been like this hungry.

  Katy Evans

  Kissing, Giving, Missing

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• Ava said her hand accidentally slipped and made contact with her guy's nose. I said Repeatedly? And she said, 'Uh, yeah. I'm really clumsy.

  Gena Showalter

  Hands, Guy, Noses

  Gena Showalter (2010). “Ecstasy in Darkness”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Remember that introverts react not only to new people, but also to new places and events. So don’t mistake a child’s caution in new situations for an inability to relate to others. He’s recoiling from novelty or overstimulation, not from human contact. Introverts are just as likely as the next kid to seek others’ company, though often in smaller doses

  Susan Cain

  Children, Mistake, Kids

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• I had a strong sudden instinct that I must be alone. I didn’t want to see any people at all. I had seen so many people all my life -- I was an average mixer, but more than average in a tendency to identify myself, my ideas, my destiny, with those of all classes that came in contact with. I was always saving or being saved -- in a single morning I would go through the emotions ascribable to Wellington at Waterloo. I lived in a world of inscrutable hostiles and inalienable friends and supporters.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Strong, Morning, Destiny

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1996). “The Jazz Age: Essays”, p.58, New Directions Publishing

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• The more grateful you are for everything good that comes into your life, the more closely you place your mind in contact with that power in life that can produce greater good.

  Christian D. Larson

  Grateful, Mind, Produce

  Christian D. Larson (2016). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.166, Christian D. Larson

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• Magnus hoped if he ever went mad like that himself, so mad that he poisoned the very air round him and hurt everyone he came into contact with, that there would be someone ho loved him enough to stop him. To kill him, if it came to that.

  Cassandra Clare

  Hurt, Air, Mad

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• In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Culture, Ease, Manners

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• Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement we come in contact with external reality, and it is through these contacts that we eventually acquire even abstract ideas.

  Maria Montessori

  Reality, Ideas, Intellectual

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• But if for the physical life it is necessary to have the child exposed to the vivifying forces of nature, it is also necessary for his psychical life to place the soul of the child in contact with creation.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Soul, Creation

  Maria Montessori, Gerald Lee Gutek (2004). “The Montessori Method: The Origins of an Educational Innovation : Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method”, p.145, Rowman & Littlefield

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• What kinds of things and people might learners want to be in contact with in order to learn?

  Ivan Illich

  Order, People, Want

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• If I had to name the number one asset you could have for any sport I'd say speed. In baseball, all a guy with speed has to do is make contact.

  Ron Fairly

  Sports, Baseball, Names

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• Use every customer point of contact to weave stories about who you are and what your brand stands for.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Stories, Use, Brands

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• So in the sense that we were all dealing with that freer approach, yes, it was certainly one of the first contacts, perhaps the first contact, when Peter came that summer. So it's a very pivotal moment that is documented there.

  Evan Parker

  Summer, Pivotal Moments, Firsts

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• I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down.

  Herb Ritts

  Black And White, Luxury, Labs

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• People will get tired of overly retouched images soon and they'll want something different. If people have too much reality, they want fantasy. What matters most is what the image communicates. I remember the first roll of film I shot at high school, the contact sheet went from these really worthy images of cracks in the wall and ended up with all of my dancer friends naked in Renaissance poses.

  David LaChapelle

  Wall, Tired, School

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• I'm an elderly gentleman. I haven't been in a fight involving bodily contact in 60 years. Look, I fall trying to put on my underwear in the morning.

  Pete Stark

  Morning, Fall, Fighting

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• We’re creatures of contact regardless of whether/ we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together.

  David Rakoff

  Kissing, Together, Stills

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• In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since

  Anita Hill

  July, Judging, Washington Dc

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• The great secret possessed by the great men of all ages was their ability to contact and release the powers of their subconscious mind. You can do the same.

  Joseph Murphy

  Men, Secret, Mind

  Joseph Murphy, General Press (2016). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.14, GENERAL PRESS

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• When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible.

  Rollo May

  Flare Up, Mad, Feelings

  "Love and Will". Book by Rollo May, Ch. 1: Introduction: Our Schizoid World, p. 31, 1969.

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• Record stores keep the human social contact alive it brings people together. Without the independent record stores the community breaks down with everyone sitting in front of their computers

  Ziggy Marley

  Independent, People, Community

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• You are so part of the world
  that your slightest action contributes to its reality.
  Your breath changes the atmosphere.
  Your encounters with others
  alter the fabrics of their lives,
  and the lives of those
  who come in contact with them.

  Jane Roberts

  Reality, Atmosphere, Encounters

  Jane Roberts (1981). “The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• If I had to name the single characteristic shared by all truly successful individuals, I’d say it’s the ability to create and nurture a network of contacts.

  Harvey Mackay

  Successful, Names, Individual

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