Dots Quotes

• Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.

  Amanda Palmer

  Creative, Connections, Collecting

  Amanda Palmer (2014). “The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• Everything starts from a dot.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Inspiring, Art, Drawing

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• Dream big. Start small and then connect the dots

  Dan Millman

  Dream, Bigs

  Dan Millman (2007). “Wisdom of the Peaceful Warrior: A Companion to the Book that Changes Lives”, p.22, H J Kramer

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• The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist

  Amanda Palmer

  Artist, Share, Impulse

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• A line is a dot that went for a walk.

  Paul Klee

  Inspirational, Art, Drawing

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• Life is a million different dots making one gigantic picture. And maybe the big picture is nice, maybe it's amazing, but if you're standing with your face pressed up against a bunch of black dots, it's really hard to tell.

  Rebecca Stead

  Nice, Black, Different

  Rebecca Stead (2012). “Liar & Spy”, p.90, Wendy Lamb Books

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• Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.

  David Byrne

  Filling In, Filling

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• The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact - sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.

  Seth Godin

  Teacher, Art, Book

  Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.198, Penguin

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• From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

  Bill Watterson

  Way, Conformity, My Own

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• You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Success, Trust

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.

  Don DeLillo

  Photography, Past, Technology

  Don DeLillo (1998). “Underworld: A Novel”, Scribner

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• Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

  Lois Wyse

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.39, Harmony

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• There is never a wrong time for a polka dot.

  Marc Jacobs

  Polka, Polka Dots, Wrong Time

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• A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Love, Life, Sex

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• Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  "Edgewalkers: People and Organizations That Take Risks, Build Bridges, and". Book by Judi Neal, p. 163, October 30, 2006.

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• The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots.

  Diane Watson

  Government, Warning, Pearls

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• Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.

  Louis J. Freeh

  Fire, Water, Trying

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• But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Drawing, Paper, Painting

  Roy Lichtenstein, David Sylvester, Galerie Lawrence Rubin (1997). “Roy Lichtenstein: new paintings”

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• San Francisco is an interesting place. It's always been such a nice culturally diverse environment, which it still is, but there's a lot of money there now and a lot of dot com's so it's a little different than it used to be.

  Les Claypool

  Nice, San Francisco, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

  Steve Jobs

  Success, Trust, Karma

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.

  Edmond Rostand

  Funny, Kissing, Romantic Love

  Edmond Rostand (2013). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.41, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Abc's, Add, Hebrew

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• Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.

  Bob Ney

  Reading, Writing, Names

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• I never could make out what those damned dots meant.

  Lord Randolph Churchill

  Science, Make Out

  "The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations" edited Elizabeth Knowles, Oxford University Press, 2004.

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