Best Connecting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 6

“Our society is connecting workers with the products people consume and recognizing workers for their contributions. It is important to do that, and to have organized labor - a middle class - to preserve our democracy.”

People Important Class Democracy Middle Products Labor Workers Preserves Organized Contribution Middle Class Our Society Recognizing Connecting Organized Labor

Author:Dolores Huerta

“I think our culture views success as visibility, being seen as being successful. Whereas I've learned that success is rooted in helping and connecting to other people, and knowing where you can contribute. I've kind of spent my thirties doing that, because in my twenties I was seeking any kind of success.”

People Thinking Kind Helping Culture Views Knowing Successful Twenties Seeking I've Learned Being Successful Rooted Connecting Visibility

Author:Mike Birbiglia

“I figured out in my thirties it was about 'what can I contribute'? And what I figured out about that is creating something from scratch, and connecting it to people.”

People Creating Connecting Scratches Creating Something

Author:Mike Birbiglia

“I love connecting with the fans. I love being on stage.”

Love Is Fans Stage Connecting

Author:Martina McBride

“I came out with a book called The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language. It's a book that describes how writing is a practice and how my teaching is part of that practice. I direct the writing and create books but underneath, there's always the river of practice happening. No good, no bad. Just do it.”

Writing Book Language Secret Practice Teaching Happenings Rivers Direct Connecting Just Do It

Author:Natalie Goldberg

“When they've shut down, you get more nervous. They react to that, and it's just this hideous shame spiral. Although sometimes that can be some good train-wreck TV. That's another reason it's definitely difficult - when you are just not connecting, and it's there for the world to see.”

World Sometimes Reason Difficult Tvs Shame Train Nervous Connecting Wrecks Hideous Spirals Train Wrecks

Author:Jancee Dunn

“[Hillary Clinton] showed, while in the Senate, that ability to connect and reach across and to forge alliances. I think she will be better [than Barack Obama]. But I think the problem with connecting emotionally with the people remains at large is - in a wholesale way.”

People Thinking Way Problem Ability Remains Clinton Barack Senate Connecting Alliances Wholesale

Author:Mark Shields

“When you start to analyze [rock 'n' roll], it's only because you don't understand it. You're just not connecting with it once you have to start analyzing it.”

Rocks Rock N Roll Connecting Analyzing

Author:Van Morrison

“The heart of blogging is linking - linking and commenting. Connecting and communicating - the purpose of the Internet.”

Heart Purpose Internet Communicate Connecting Blogging

Author:George Siemens

“Certain things work for me, certain things don't. [Going out for drinks is] about connecting, hanging out, and having a reason to spend time together. But you don't really need any kind of reason, other than you want to spend time with somebody.”

Want Needs Kind Reason Together Certain Drink Hanging Out Going Out End Times Connecting Spend Time Time Together

Author:Milo Ventimiglia

“The good life for me always meant connecting with those big, important issues that grown-ups get so excited about.”

Important Bigs Issues Excited Good Life Connecting Important Issues

Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“I think there's a big market in North America [with travelers] going to Lisbon and connecting over Lisbon.”

Thinking Bigs America Traveler Connecting North America

Author:David Neeleman

“What I didn't really understand, but then I thought this makes perfect sense, as well - was how many people responded to it by being like, "It was just so nice to take a break." Because even the humor - the great stuff that Samantha Bee and John Oliver and Seth Meyers are doing - it's all anger humor. And for somebody to say, "Hey, we're all idiots," and just be able to laugh at ourselves and be able to connect through that. It's always about connecting with someone, never about scolding them. The only thing I knew right upfront is we're not going after [Donald] Trump supporters.”

People Wells Able Stuff Perfect Break Laughing Nice Trump Hey Idiot Bees Supporter Connecting Scolding Samantha

Author:Joss Whedon

“The great irony to Dirk [Gently] is that he sees connections in everything, but the one thing he fails and struggles with most is connecting with other people.”

People Struggle Failing One Thing Connections Irony Connecting Dirk Gently

Author:Samuel Barnett

“I mean the prime case that you can look at is Martin Luther King, who was only an activist for 13 years. But every year, he became deeper, more concerned, connecting more issues.”

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Author:Bill Ayers

“Making a U-turn from our thoughts to our feelings re-connects us to our own inner experience and creates the grounds for connecting with others in a more authentic way. It's a movement from head to heart.”

Way Heart Feelings Turns Movement Our Thoughts Connecting

Author:Tara Brach

“I like the way Microsoft participates in other-than-mainstream activities, such as academic research, charities, scholarships and connecting the disconnected by providing technology support to underserved people.”

People Way Technology Support Activity Research Charity Academic Mainstream Providing Connecting Scholarship Microsoft Disconnected Academic Research

Author:Arfa Karim

“It's really about connecting to your own humanity and your own behaviors, and getting to a level of self-awareness so that you can have perspective and step outside of yourself and transform and become another person.”

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Author:Bryce Dallas Howard

“I went to a mosque in Philadelphia with [my wife] in December 24, 1999. And we we went to this mosque in Philly, and I just had such a strong reaction to the prayer. And I was really emotionally - I felt really grounded at that time. And so to be in this prayer and the imam is doing the prayer in Arabic and I don't understand a word of Arabic but I just remember these tears just coming down my face and it just really connecting to my spirit in a way that felt like I needed to pay attention to that.”

Way Remember Faces Spirit Strong Felt Prayer Pay Attention Wife Tears Needed My Wife Reactions Pay Attention Grounded Connecting December Philadelphia Mosques

Author:Mahershala Ali

“With fiction, and also with nonfiction that you can take your time doing, you have a much better chance of reaching across the divide and connecting with somebody who is opposed to you on some things. They're opposed to you on one axis, which is politics, but if you go over the axis called puppies, you might find some common ground.”

Ifs Might Chance Common Fiction Reaching Divides Nonfiction Connecting Puppy Doing You Common Ground Axes Take Your Time

Author:George Saunders

“I'm interested in storytelling. I love being an artist now and connecting through art.”

Art Artist Love Is Storytelling Connecting Being An Artist

Author:Nicole Kidman

“I love connecting with kids. I love connecting with children of all ages to keep their imagination active because that's the key to happiness and imagination and creativity.”

Children Kids Age Imagination Creativity Keys Active Connecting Key To Happiness Imagination And Creativity

Author:Greg Cipes

“[John McCain] stopped connecting and just looked at my chest and decided, "I'm just gonna continue to talk about honor and duty and the families should be proud," all the things that are cudgels emotionally to keep us from the conversation. But, things that weren't relevant to what we were talking about.”

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Author:Jon Stewart

“More information and more communications foster world peace and understanding. But connecting extremist nut cases together on the Web - whatever flavor extremism they are - is a really bad thing. More information may not be a good thing, either.”

World May Together Understanding Cases Information Communication Good Things Bad Things Nuts Flavor Connecting Extremism Extremist

Author:Paul Saffo

“Social media is alluring, tempting, frustrating, etc. We mistake our interactions in social media as community, but is community possible when you don't even know what someone looks like or what his or her voice sounds like? I've enjoyed connecting with a lot of poets through social media, but do I truly know them if I haven't even met them yet?”

Ifs Knows Looks Social Sound Voice Community Mistake Media Havens Poet Mets Social Media Enjoyed Etc Interaction Frustrating Connecting Tempting Alluring

Author:Allison Joseph

“I'm connecting and that's really what any artist wants at the end of the day which is to connect with their fans and supporters.”

Want Ends Artist Fans The End Of The Day Supporter Connecting

Author:Adrian Marcel

“I feel the calmest when I'm drawing or when I'm creating images. I love connecting the mind with the hand and producing something - that is very comforting and centering for me.”

Feels Mind Hands Creating Drawing Connecting Comforting Centering

Author:Jerry Pinkney

“We have new media, new forms of connectivity, and an enormous transference of knowledge. When you study evolution, you see that when new genes meet and multiply, they create new contexts and new species. In a sense, the gene-pool of knowledge and of people connecting at all levels is literally spawning a kind of mind-pool of possibilities.”

People Mind Kind Form Levels Study Media Possibility Evolution Species Enormous Pool Genes Connecting New Media Transference

Author:Jean Houston

“By the way of connecting with subject, with theme, I was able to find a kind of lifeline. Writing's like a lifeline. You have to get the right way in. Otherwise the material just lies there, and you can't do anything with it.”

Way Writing Kind Able Lying Subjects Materials Theme Right Way Connecting Lifelines

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“At the end of the day, the internet is a fair space. A medium of infinite resource. And something we've never had before, ever. But people aren't connecting the dots, and that's what scares me.”

People Ends Space Internet Resources Fairs Infinite Mediums The End Of The Day Scare Connecting Dots Connecting The Dots

Author:Eli Russell Linnetz

“There is an interesting and new way to be excited about the fashion world today maybe. The traditional path of fashion as simple magazine images has dissolved - we are seeing new and innovative ways to share, create, and enjoy ideas. I am challenged to learn and explore paths of finding new photographers, stylists, and vision-makers online or through direct contact, connecting with ideas and creativity in new ways, and making images with different outlets. Sometimes more unbridled avenues and unconventional ways lead to things I wouldn't have thought of yet.”

“This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.”

Two Together Lying Humanity Wish Term Contradiction Persist Connecting Together Again

Book:God and the State

Source: God and the State

“Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.”

Mean Art Alive Art Is Connecting Profundity

Author:Jeff Koons

“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.”

People Thinking Important Connections Bad Things Hitting Buttons Pauses Connecting Pause Button

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“I hope that I would be considered romantic. I don't know... one of my favorite movies is 'The Notebook' so I guess that would be considered romantic. But I think being romantic is more than the flowers and the gifts. It's about connecting with the person and being able to talk and share things with her.”

Thinking Knows Persons Would Be Able Share Flower My Favorite Connecting Notebook

Author:Taylor Lautner

“Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect all the data together.”

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Author:Tim Berners-Lee

“The role of social media is critical because it helps to spread cognitive dissonance by connecting thought leaders and activists to ordinary citizens rapidly expanding the network of people who become willing to take action.”

“In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker.”

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Author:Mike McCurry

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.”

“I'm not personally connected to the Internet, although nearly everyone that I know is, and many of them have a great time and no problems with it. And on the surface you can see that the Internet could go an awful long way to educating, enlightening, informing and connecting the world.”

Knows World Way Long Problem Internet Connected Surface Awful No Problem Connecting Long Way Enlightening Great Times Informing Connecting The World

Author:Alan Moore

“It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature.”

Men Humans Bread Human Life Links Connecting Living Things Daily Bread

Author:Ivan Pavlov

“As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal.”

Children Long Language Students Development Paper Majors Models Mathematical Graduates Journal Connecting Dots Graduate Students Connecting The Dots Mathematical Models Language Development

Author:Steven Pinker

“Connecting people to jobs and to each other is absolutely vital to a city's economy (and to the wider economy).”

People Jobs Cities Economy Connecting

Author:Lucy Powell

“I'm equally guilty of using technology - I Twitter, I text people, I chat. But I think there's something strangely insidious about it that it makes us think we're closer when in fact we're not seeing each other, we're not connecting.”

People Thinking Facts Technology Seeing Guilty Connecting Insidious

Author:Jason Reitman

“When you focus on life, on enjoying and connecting with other people, that's when work comes. When you focus on work, you can never work. I'm always going through waves of that.”

People Enjoy Focus Wave Connecting

Author:Alia Shawkat

“I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.”

Thinking Ideas Unconscious Collectives Connecting Collective Unconscious

Author:Will Smith

“I love sharing my stories and experiences with people and connecting to them on both a humorous and emotional level.”

People Stories Levels Emotional Humorous Connecting

Author:Tori Spelling

“We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.”

Children Facts Dangerous Blame Priorities Dirty Our Society Mud Connecting Naughty

Author:David Suzuki

“I do enjoy manga but would not consider myself a 'super-fan,' only really connecting with certain works such as 'Lone Wolf and Cub,' or 'Tekkon Kinkreet,' the more breakthrough works, and 'Akira,' to me, is the daddy of them all.”

Certain Enjoy Fans Daddy Connecting Breakthrough Lone Cubs Lone Wolf

Author:Gerard Way

“Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. But all self-dependence is vain. It is only by connecting with Jesus through faith that the sinner becomes a hopeful, believing child of God.”

Believe Children Ideas Self Order Jesus Effort Wonderful Gains Favors Vain Hopeful Sinner Vague Dependence Connecting Child Of God Favor Of God Vague Ideas

Book:Signs of the Times Articles - Book I of III

Source: Signs of the Times Articles - Book I of III

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