“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.” KindGovernmentJobsBoysPracticeDemocracyConnectionsAbuseAccessDictatorPrivilegedGood JobAbuse Of PowerCorridorsFamily Connections Author:Jimmy Reid
“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.” ShouldHomeNumbersInformationBirthInternetConnectionsDollarsIncludingPhonesAccessIncomeAddressesMailUsersPhone NumbersPersonal InformationInternet Connection Author:Al Franken
“We are living in a world where access trumps knowledge every time. Those who know how to search, find and make the connections will succeed. Those who rely on static knowledge and skills alone will fail.” KnowsWorldKnow HowFailingTrumpSucceedSkillsConnectionsAccessRelyStatic Author:Charles Jennings
“At its most basic, the spiritual is the experience of the connectedness that underlies reality. The depth of that experience depends on the capacity of the individual to set aside considerations of self, thereby gaining access to connection.” SelfRealitySpiritualSpiritualityIndividualDependsCapacityConnectionsDepthAccessConsiderationConnectedness Author:Arthur J. Deikman
“When I think about popular culture, I can't help but think that we're living in the age of loneliness. There's this illusion that we all have instant access to each other, but we actually have no real connection.” ThinkingI CanRealHelpingAgeCultureLonelinessIllusionConnectionsAccessInstantPopular CultureReal Connection Author:Madonna Ciccone
“Visual journaling allows us to access our inner language of imagery and express it both verbally and visually, while exploring the connection between image and word.” LanguageExpressionConnectionsAccessVisualsExploringImageryJournaling Author:Michael Bell
“The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to publishing, and universities, with access to the major book reviews, they were able to pose as the vanguard of American culture when they were so obsessed with the two Joes--McCarthy and Stalin--that they were to produce only two artists, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, who left town.” WritingArtTwoImportantBookAbleLastsArtistCultureLiteraturePoliticsLeftKnownNew YorkProduceMajorsConnectionsTownsUniversityAccessObsessedReviewsPublishingAmerican CultureManhattanPhilipVanguardBook ReviewJoe Mccarthy Book:God made Alaska for the Indians: selected essays Source: God made Alaska for the Indians: selected essays
“I think that when you go on a shamanic journey, you're allowing yourself to have much more access to your unconscious or your sense of connection within the universe, whatever you want to call that. You've accessed places in your brain that you don't normally. You're still there - it's your brain. But you have access in a way that you normally don't. For me, doing that felt like being in a new environment.” ThinkingWayWantStillsUniverseFeltBrainEnvironmentJourneyGoes OnConnectionsAccessUnconsciousAllowingNew Environment Author:Amy Hardie
“Essentially, there's a universe inside your brain. The number of connections possible inside your brain is limitless. And as people have learned to have more managerial and direct creative access to their brains, they have also developed matrices or networks of people that communicate electronically. There are direct brain/computer link-ups. You can just jack yourself in and pilot your brain around in cyberspace-electronic space.” PeopleUniverseSpaceNumbersBrainCreativeComputerDirectConnectionsCommunicateAccessLinksPilotsLimitlessCyberspace Author:Timothy Leary
“Yoga practice seems to be used to access some deeper dimension or some enlightened state. Understand right now there is no connection between flexibility and enlightenment.” StatesSeemsUsedPracticeRight NowEnlightenmentYogaConnectionsDeeperAccessDimensionsEnlightenedFlexibilityYoga Practice Author:Bryan Kest
“Dickens didn't have access to any other epistemologies other than those prevailing in Britain. But a novelist today cannot plausibly claim ignorance of his society's manifold connections with the wider world, the fact that prosperity and security at home, for instance, often depend on extensive violence and exploitation abroad.” WorldFactsHomeTodayViolenceSecurityIgnoranceDependsConnectionsClaimsProsperityAccessInstanceNovelistsBritainExploitationPrevailingDickensEpistemologyManifold Author:Pankaj Mishra
“Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the world's greatest libraries - indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need.” IfsWorldNeedsTodayInformationAmountInternetEasierConnectionsLibraryAvailableAccessDwarfsFingertipsInternet Connection Author:Peter Singer
“Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very powerful thing.” PeopleRealityMightArtistPowerfulCreativityGreaterMissingDesignConnectionsPatternsDetailsAccessDistractedVery PowerfulBlur Book:Decoded (Enhanced Edition) Source: Decoded (Enhanced Edition)
“If you deny yourself access to the child within because you're too serious, you also block your connection to the divine Light and your feminine self. Every creator who's any good uses their feminine side to create with.. Whether a scientist working on a hunch, a painter working on the interplay of colors, or a musician dealing with the juxtaposition of notes and chords.” IfsChildrenSelfUseLightSpiritualitySidesDivineColorSeriousMusicianConnectionsScientistNotesCreatorDenyAccessBlockPainterFeminineChordsHunchesJuxtapositionDivine Light Author:Stuart Wilde
“Meditation is an essential travel partner on your journey of personal transformation. Meditation connects you with your soul, and this connection gives you access to your intuition, your heartfelt desires, your integrity, and the inspiration to create a life you love.” GivingSoulInspirationDesireMeditationJourneyIntegrityEssentialsConnectionsTransformationIntuitionAccessPartnersYour SoulHeartfeltMeditation PracticePersonal Transformation Author:Sarah MacLean
“There is never a personal-life connection between my characters and myself. I'm a professional and I can access what I need to access, so there's no bleed-over. I didn't need to believe in aliens to play Mulder. As for my personal life, everything is fantastic right now.” NeedsBelieveI CanPlayCharacterRight NowConnectionsAccessAliensFantasticPersonal Life Author:David Duchovny