Connection Quotes

• It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.

  

  Colin Hay Men at Work
  • Good
  • Great
  • Writing

• When I create a song, I immediately think about what I'm going to wear when I perform that song. I think about the music video treatment and about how I'm going to look on stage when I perform the record. The connection is so obvious that it's a single package. An outfit, to me, is almost a tool to express the music.

  

  G-Dragon
  • Music
  • Song
  • Single

• The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Connection
  • Will
  • Capacities

• Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Connection
  • Search

• We need to make people understand that there is a definite connection between what happens in their everyday lives and the decisions we make in Washington, D.C.

  

  Lucille Roybal-Allard
  • People
  • Everyday
  • Connection

• When I had dial-up, my mom got me a phone so I wouldn't tie up the phone. She used to really pick up the phone, push some buttons, and hang it up so the connection could mess up. Now, it's a joke with her, like, 'Look, the Internet's 24/7. I have WiFi now.'

  

  Karen Civil
  • Up
  • She
  • Mom

• You can't look at the Noah story and not see some kind of environmental connection. The Creator wants to start over. He wants creation to be given a shot at survival, and the true enemy is the wickedness of men.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Men
  • True
  • Enemy

• My first movie, 'Heathers,' had played at the festival, so I had a little bit of a Sundance connection, but I didn't really know about the Labs.

  

  Michael Lehmann
  • Really
  • Little
  • Sundance

• Sometimes you make a connection with a writer or a piece of material, and there's not much to ask.

  

  Peter Riegert
  • Connection

• I lost all connection with the outside world and was immersed in a world of darkness. I was scared that my existence would fade silently. No one knew where I was, and no one would ever know. I was just like a small soybean-once fallen to the ground, it rolls into a crack in the corner. Being unable to make any sounds, it will forever be forgotten.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • World
  • Small
  • Lost

• Why do we value leadership, connection and grace? Because it's scarce, and that scacity creates value.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Value
  • Leadership
  • Grace

• The connection to place, to the land, the wind, the sun, stars, the moon... it sounds romantic, but it's true - the visceral experience of motion, of moving through time on some amazing machine - a few cars touch on it, but not too many compared to motorcycles. I always felt that any motorcycle journey was special.

  

  Antoine Predock
  • Time
  • Experience
  • True

• And, in fact, there is a connection, the people who designed this here program and who implement it are the same people who are overseeing and helping in the interrogations of detainees in places like Guantanamo.

  

  Jane Mayer
  • People
  • Connection

• For most modern marketers, quantity isn't the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Work
  • Matter
  • Changed

• I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my 'Creative Projects' folder - it's a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in. Any time I have an Internet connection, there's a sluice of stuff moving into there, everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.

  

  Adam Savage
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Moving

• There's an ancient connection between movement and music. Most languages don't make a distinction between the words 'music' and 'dance.' And we can see that in the brain. When people are lying perfectly still but listening to music, the neurons in the motor cortex are firing.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • People
  • Music
  • Words

• One way a collaboration can go wrong is if your connection is inauthentic or overly prescriptive.

  

  Mark Parker
  • Connection
  • Collaboration

• The digital world has allowed me a connection with my reader that I'd never had before. I didn't meet the people who read my material. The fan letters were mostly answered by professional people that'd done them for a living. And I didn't have any daily connection with their response to my work. I didn't have a relationship with my audience. And every artist should have it.

  

  Berkeley Breathed
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• So ensuring the integrity of the data and integrity and validity of the connection is a very important element in any company's strategy that is moving towards a Web service paradigm.

  

  John W. Thompson
  • Important
  • Moving
  • Service

• I think it was more by accident rather than design there is such a strong connection between the show and the racing fraternity, but there's just so much talent here. And, hey, both the racing and theatrical communities are made up of real people with many interests and backgrounds.

  

  Peter Hall
  • Design
  • Interests
  • Accident

• I'm very tech-forward. However, I also think hitting the pause button is not a bad thing, and really connecting with people one-to-one viscerally, having a connection with someone, is really important.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • People
  • Important
  • Bad

• No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.

  

  Albert Ray Olpin
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Knowledge

• This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims.

  

  Aristide Briand
  • Connection
  • Search

• Even if you don't mind Romneycare, or the abortion flip-flop, or any of the rest, there's a more basic problem: He's not a natural campaigner, and on the stump he instinctively recoils from any personal connection with the voters.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Mind
  • Rest
  • Connection

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