Best Connections Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads.”

“There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able to make in their lives on a daily basis.”

Able Differences Pieces Connections Bases Collectors Admirer

Author:Richard MacDonald

“The fact is, I've always felt more British than Irish. Maybe it was the way I was brought up, I don't know, but I have always felt more of a connection with the U.K. than with Ireland.”

Knows Way Facts Felt Connections British Ireland

Author:Rory McIlroy

“There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.”

Moving Connections Ancient Cancer Very Moving

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“I don't like it when reviews aren't about the movie. When they're about how much money somebody made, or who they're sleeping with, or if they got the job via some connection, or about how Fox is putting X amount of dollars into it.”

Ifs Made Jobs Sleep Amount Connections Dollars Reviews Foxes

Author:Jodie Foster

“It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world.”

World Art Reason Political Social Connections Notion Autonomy

Author:Thom Mayne

“The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.”

People World Way Able Share Stage Music Is Connections Albums Compliment Best Experiences

Author:Vanessa Mae

“I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.”

People Needs Believe I Can Hard Spiritual Support Connections Let Me Miracle Scary Believe In Me Deceiving Avoiding Making Changes Support Me Spiritual Connection Tell Me The Truth

Author:Victoria Moran

“Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.”

Sometimes Emotion Music Is Connections Initials Promoting Jaded

Author:David Nail

“If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.”

Ifs Giving Feels Kind Important Emotional Connections Familiar Emotional Connection

Author:Marc Newson

“So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.”

Way Able Form Records Paper Computer Connections Structure Mediums

Author:Ted Nelson

“There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty.”

Jesus Poverty Birth Connections Opposites Simplicity Ceremony Jesus Birth

Author:Keith O'Brien

“Now, there are sometimes making a connection between one section and another that sometimes you do want to see the pattern because it helps you to lead into the next thing - it's a rhetorical thing, where you just see how the pattern has to go into the next thing.”

Want Sometimes Helping Next Connections Patterns Sections Rhetorical

Author:Leo Ornstein

“But parents and schools have their priorities; making sure our kids eat right because research shows a clear connection between nutrition and student performance in school.”

Shows Kids School Parent Clear Students Research Connections Performances Priorities Nutrition

Author:Jared Polis

“You can just look at a mountain and get a connection with God, you don't have to understand the mountain to feel that.”

Feels Looks God Mountain Connections

Author:Paulo Coelho

“The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.”

World Needs Doe Moments Connections Filled Neat Epiphany Tidy Neat And Tidy

Author:Dennis Lehane

“Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.”

Rocks Connections Hip Hop Hips Hops Punk Punk Rock

Author:Cat Power

“Facebook isn't helping you make new connections, Facebook doesn't develop new relationships, Facebook is just trying to be the most accurate model of your social graph. There's a part of me that feels somewhat bored by all of this.”

Feels Trying Helping Social Models Connections Bored Accurate New Relationship Graphs

Author:Sean Parker

“Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is.”

Kind Government Jobs Boys Practice Democracy Connections Abuse Access Dictator Privileged Good Job Abuse Of Power Corridors Family Connections

Author:Jimmy Reid

“I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made.”

Made Hard Creative Connections

Author:Michael J. Fox

“Someone told me that there's a connection to Superman, that in an early edition of the Green Lantern comics, Tomar Re was the envoy to Krypton. That was fascinating to me.”

Connections Green Fascinating Lanterns Green Lantern Krypton

Author:Geoffrey Rush

“Even things which seem separate and finished are infinitely connected and will infinitely connect. This connection happens as soon as you let it, as soon as you engage - as soon as you even attempt to engage.”

Seems Happens Connections Connected Finished

Author:Ali Smith

“I want to speak for people that may not feel like they're being spoken for at the moment. And I want to make a connection between the world around us and the charts.”

People World Want Feels May Moments Speak Connections

Author:Emeli Sande

“The hardest thing about being at Sony was not the travel; it was being divorced from the public and private life I had in New York. Travelling as much as I did, while I didn't lose connection with my friends, I lost a sense of belonging.”

Lost Loses New York My Friends Connections Hardest Belonging Hardest Thing Divorced Private Life Sony

Author:Howard Stringer

“Most people, without consciously realizing it, absorb a great deal of psychic energy from the people they casually associate with, and even a greater amount from people with whom they have strong emotional connections.”

People Energy Strong Realizing Deals Greater Emotional Amount Connections Associates Psychics Emotional Connection Strong Emotional

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“And so one may be without connection with any church, and even without connection with any established religion, and yet be in spirit, hence in reality, a much truer Christian than hosts of those who profess to be His most ardent followers, as indeed Jesus Himself so many times says. "By their fruits ye shall know them," said He. "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven."”

Knows May Said Reality Christian Spirit Father Jesus Heaven Church Christianity Lord Connections Fruit Kingdoms Followers Host Ardent Kingdom Of Heaven

Book:Thoughts I Met on the Highway and Other Truths

Source: Thoughts I Met on the Highway and Other Truths

“You can hit a home run. If you are honest, you'll know when it's perfect because at that critical moment of connection, there was no sense of being there. That is perfect play. There is no self involved.”

Ifs Knows Self Play Moments Home Running Perfect Honest Health Buddhism Involved Connections Critical Being There Athletics Home Run Critical Moments

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Love is truly eternal and lasts forever. It is the core of our connection and expression of life.”

Life Inspirational Lasts Death Love Is Forever Positive Expression Inspirational Life Eternal Connections Core

Book:An Hour to Live, an Hour to Love: The True Story of the Best Gift Ever Given

Source: An Hour to Live, an Hour to Love: The True Story of the Best Gift Ever Given

“While I was in London it was completely upside-down. I got a whole new life and it was a challenge to keep in touch with my life in Ireland, but it was great fun. Now though, I've been back home since November and gradually all connections with my HP life have been fading.”

Has Beens Whole Home Fun Challenges Connections London Ireland New Life November Upside Down Back Home Fading

Author:Evanna Lynch

“In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.”

Character Film Values Development Horror Connections Shining Favors Genre Shock Character Development Shock Value

Author:Joshua Leonard

“The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research.”

Ifs Firsts I Can Character Practice Knowing Circumstances Research Connections Manifest

Author:Joshua Leonard

“Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them.”

Thinking Needs Seems Can Do Football Roots Connections Supporter

Author:Graham Taylor

“Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.”

Book Real Character Alive Reader Direct Connections Dialogue

Author:Laini Taylor

“I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.”

Earth Certain Cities Amount Connections Raised Texas

Author:JoBeth Williams

“I think a lot of the time, we don't give our family connections the kind of credit they deserve, like how important they are to us and how much they mean to us. I think family makes all the difference.”

Thinking Giving Kind Mean Important Differences Deserve Connections Credit Our Family Family Connections

Author:JoBeth Williams

“I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start to lose my sense of reality, and it ends up feeling like an empty experience; there's funny stuff in it but I've lost the emotional connection to the characters because it's just so bananas.”

Ends Whole Character Feelings Reality Lost Stuff Loses Comedy Emotional Empty Connections Viewers Strain Bananas Emotional Connection Funny Stuff

Author:Mike White

“The most important feature of an information economy, in which information is defined as surprise, is the overthrow, not the attainment, of equilibrium. The science that we have come to know as information theory establishes the supremacy of the entrepreneur because it appreciates the powerful connection between destruction and what Schumpeter described as "creative destruction," between chaos and creativity.”

Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

“Each time you meditate, you create a stronger connection with the world of inner light and happiness that exists within you.”

World Light Meditation Buddhism Connections Stronger Within You Inner Light

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.”

“Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user's phone number and home address, anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user's date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.”

Should Home Numbers Information Birth Internet Connections Dollars Including Phones Access Income Addresses Mail Users Phone Numbers Personal Information Internet Connection

Author:Al Franken

“When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices. You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections - the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?”

World Years Might Able Political Choices Social Loses Company Opinion Share Position Connections Meaningful Posts Consumers Dominant Social Network Political Opinions

Author:Al Franken

“I don't have a type. But one thing I can say from my dating experience is that a physical attraction will only take you so far. So you definitely have to have a strong intellectual connection as well.”

Wells I Can Strong One Thing Type Intellectual Connections Dating Attraction Physical Attraction

Author:Jesse Metcalfe

“We'll continue to see more and more brands integrate social causes, charitable components and environmental issues as underlying themes to their campaigns and messaging. Humans connect with humans after all, and brands are using this as a point of connection to engage with their audience, especially charity-minded Generation Y.”

Humans Social Causes Audience Issues Generations Connections Charity Environmental Campaigns Brands Theme Components Integrating Charitable Environmental Issues Generation Y

Author:Amy Jo Martin

“You have 1 billion people using the Internet with 200 million of those now using broadband internet connections, so the Internet has become a powerful network. It can carry calls.”

People Powerful Millions Internet Connections Billions Broadband Internet Connection

Author:Niklas Zennstrom

“Opportunities will often come at the unlikeliest of times. Sometimes they're because of instant connections.”

Sometimes Opportunity Connections Instant Instant Connection

Author:Jason Landry

“Actually, when I was young, I believe I met Nicolas Cage. I think I was probably eight, and I remember seeing him at somebody's house - it was an event and he happened to be there. People would ask me if I was his son, because I looked like him at that point, so I do remember feeling some connection and just wanting to say, like, 'Papa!'”

People Ifs Thinking Believe Feelings Remember Young Asks House I Believe Seeing Happened Events Son Mets Connections Eight Ask Me Cages Papa

Author:Simon Helberg

“I came out of my professional athlete career with a 450 credit score, no money in the bank to show for it, but I had an Ivy League degree. So I put that Dartmouth degree to good use and got a job on Wall Street. I hated it but used the time to make connections and become financially literate.”

Use Shows Jobs Used Careers Streets Wall Degrees Connections Athlete Credit Hated League Score No Money Ivy Professional Athlete Ivy League Dartmouth Credit Scores

Author:Brian J. White

“If your dad died before you were born, yeah, it hurts — but it’s not like you had a connection with something that was real. Not to say it’s any better — but to have that connection and then have it ripped away was, like, the worst. My dad was such a good dad that when he left, he left a huge scar. He was my superhero.”

Ifs Real Left Born Hurt Worst Huge Like You Dad Connections Died Yeah My Dad Scar It Hurts Superhero Ripped Your Dad Dad Died Good Dad

Author:Jay-Z

“Repeatedly and frankly we have announced that in Irans national security doctrine there is no room for atomic and chemical weapons as we consider them against Islamic laws. Irans Supreme Leader (Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei) in this connection had issued a decree that mass destruction weapons are prohibited by the Muslim religion. [. . .] Therefore we support the idea of a Middle East free from weapons of mass destruction[.]”

“We are all the subjects of impressions, and some of use seek to convey the impressions to others. In the art of communicating impressions lies the power of generalizing without losing that logical connection of parts to the whole which satisfies the mind.”

Mind Art Whole Use Lying Subjects Losing Connections Communicate Impression Logical

Author:Camille Pissarro

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