“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.” IfsMadeJobsSleepAmountConnectionsDollarsReviewsFoxes Author:Jodie Foster
“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.” PeopleEnergyStrongRealizingDealsGreaterEmotionalAmountConnectionsAssociatesPsychicsEmotional ConnectionStrong Emotional Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.” EarthCertainCitiesAmountConnectionsRaisedTexas Author:JoBeth Williams
“It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might be lifelong, or it might descend like a sudden catastrophe, this blankness between ourselves and the rest of the world. The blankness might not even be obvious to others. But on our side of that severed connection, it was hell, a life lived behind glass. The only difference between mild depression and severe schizophrenia was the amount of sound and air that seeped in.” WorldMightSoundSidesDifferencesBehindsHellAirAmountConnectionsMental HealthGlassesDefinitionsPainfulIllnessObviousMental IllnessSevereCatastropheInabilityPersistentLifelongSchizophreniaBlankness Author:Tracy Thompson
“Any stimulus package amounts to taking money from the pockets of some Americans and placing it in the pockets of others who have better political connections.” PoliticalAmountConnectionsPocketsPackagesStimulus Author:Mona Charen
“I imagine a certain amount of consumer impulse will be replaced by community connection. You can already see it starting with things like the local food movement.” CertainCommunityImagineMovementAmountConnectionsStartingLocalsConsumersImpulseReplacedLocal Food Author:Bill McKibben
“If you're going to make an emotional connection with somebody, whether it's in the story or in the world, there's a certain amount of self-acceptance that is required.” IfsWorldSelfStoriesCertainAcceptanceEmotionalAmountConnectionsSelf AcceptanceEmotional Connection Author:George Saunders
“Post-9/11, we saw an immediate uptick in the amount of people in our stores, all over the country. People wanted that human connection. We are not going to fracture the Starbucks experience.” PeopleHumansCountryWantedSawsAmountConnectionsStoresPostsStarbucksHuman ConnectionFracture Author:Howard Schultz
“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
“But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?” SoulEndsPassionGrowing UpGrowingAmountConnectionsPoetry IsIntensityYearning Book:Youth Source: Youth