Quotes tagged ‘Connection’

“You know, we pride ourselves on our music being very real; we talk about situations that we’ve actually experienced and been through, and that really helps our fans to connect with us.”

— Austin Carlile, theaquarian.com

“M’Lady: Salem, you’re the only one who understands me. Salem: Yeah, but it doesn’t mean I care.”

— Nell Scovell, Salem Saberhagen (voice), Nick Bakay, imdb.com

“We trust that time is linear. That it proceeds eternally, uniformly. Into infinity. But the distinction between past, present and future is nothing but an illusion. Yesterday, today and tomorrow are not consecutive, they are connected in a never-ending circle. Everything is connected.”

— Jantje Friese, The Stranger, Andreas Pietschmann, imdb.com

“But it so happens that everything on this planet is, ultimately, irrational; there is not, and cannot be, any reason for the causal connexion of things, if only because our use of the word ‘reason’ already implies the idea of causal connexion. But, even if we avoid this fundamental difficulty, Hume…”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

“Instead of talking about the World Cup or their favorite desserts, they shared their innermost fears or told the story of losing their virginity.”

— Ori Brafman, amazon.com

“When you both make yourselves vulnerable from the outset and are candid in revealing who you are and how you think and feel, you create an environment that fosters the kind of openness that can lead to an instant connection — a click.”

— Ori Brafman, amazon.com

“I kept noticing a self-help cliché that people say to each other all the time, and share on Facebook incessantly. We say to each other: “Nobody can help you except you.” It made me realize: we haven’t just started doing things alone more, in every decade since the 1930s. We have started to believe t…”

— Johann Hari, amazon.com

“The Internet was born into a world where many people had already lost their sense of connection to each other. The collapse had already been taking place for decades by then. The web arrived offering them a kind of parody of what they were losing—Facebook friends in place of neighbors, video games i…”

— Johann Hari, amazon.com

“Scream everything your heart is feeling when they aren't around.”

— Lydia Havens, twitter.com

“Wherever I am, it's a really good feeling to have that connection to people. I love to go out to talk to people and be with folks. I don't shy away from it.”

— Danny DeVito, theguardian.com

“The internet is a great way to get on the net.”

— Bob Dole, amazon.com

“You have a connection to the Divine Mind, the power source of the world. It is called breath.”

— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com

“If you send a sweet message, you will get sweet messages back tenfold. If you give out anger, you will get anger back tenfold. So just be careful. You are communicating more than you think.”

— Yoko Ono, twitter.com

“Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state.”

— James K. Polk, en.wikiquote.org

“I've just turned eighteen. And I think I understand...what people mean to each other.”

— Jonathan Entwistle, James, Alex Lawther, imdb.com

“Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also – if you love them enough.”

— George Washington Carver, amazon.com

“When I invented the web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA. … Democracy depends on freedom of speech. Freedom of connection, with any application, to any party, is the fundamental social b…”

— Tim Berners-Lee, en.wikiquote.org

“Web 1.0 was all about connecting people. It was an interactive space, and I think Web 2.0 is of course a piece of jargon, nobody even knows what it means. If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then that is people to people. But that was what the Web was supposed to be all along.”

— Tim Berners-Lee, ibm.com

“The fact that we're all connected, the fact that we've got this information space — does change the parameters. It changes the way people live and work. It changes things for good and for bad. But I think, in general, it's clear that most bad things come from misunderstanding, and communication is g…”

— Tim Berners-Lee, ibm.com

“Going from success to significance is a shift from getting to giving. It's not about power/status, it's about relationships.”

— Ken Blanchard, twitter.com