“The great thing about a name like 'Cougar Town' is that you hear it once and you remember it forever. Its a very loud title. But there's a connection to the word 'cougar' that means a lot of people are going to be turned off right away by the title alone without even giving the show a chance.” PeopleGivingMeanShowsRememberNamesChanceForeverConnectionsTownsGreat ThingsTitlesLoudTurned OffCougars Author:Dan Byrd
“I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much taken away from us during slavery, so the 60s gave us a chance, because of the civil rights movement, to kind of re-examine and make some sort of formal connection to our African-ness.” ThinkingKindChanceTakenRightsMovementPureConnectionsSlaveryCivil RightsAfrican AmericanFormalCivil Rights Movement Author:Herbie Hancock
“Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn't a chance.” ChanceAttentionEmotionalCommunicationEmpathyConnectionsPay AttentionLackingEmotional Connection Author:Daniel Goleman
“Smart brands never try to appeal to more than their audience group. Assuming you're audience is one of the segments that watches, it's your chance to galvanize this specific group, which is larger here than anywhere else, with a bold new idea that can re-magnetize the human/brand connection for a new year.” TryingYearsHumansIdeasChanceWatchesAudienceGroupsSmartConnectionsAssumingBrandsAppealsNew YearNew Ideas Author:Joshua Rogers
“Anytime I get to be around the fans it's always a good time, especially during Music Fest. CMA puts together an event that allows artists to make that personal connection with the fans and it's wonderful. I look at it as our chance to give back to them and let them know we appreciate their support.” KnowsGivingLooksTogetherArtistChanceSupportWonderfulFansEventsAppreciateConnectionsGood TimesGiving BackPersonal Connection Author:Billy Currington
“There is a wonderful book called "Gandhi's Truth," by Erik Erikson, the psychologist. It is a great book. And I remember reading that and thinking about this connection between what we think in our personal lives and how that manifests itself in our politics. Those are two books, just off the top, that I think are sort of representative of reading that I did at that time. I never get a chance to read anymore.” ThinkingTwoBookRememberReadingChanceWonderfulConnectionsRepresentativesPersonal LifePsychologistGreat BookErikson Author:Barack Obama
“If you don't know the right people or have the right connections, you may never be discovered. With 'Opening Act,' we are democratizing a notoriously impossible process, pulling back the curtains on a consistently fascinating industry, and affording aspiring artists the chance of a lifetime.” PeopleIfsKnowsMayArtistProcessChanceImpossibleIndustryConnectionsLifetimeOpeningFascinatingConsistentlyPullingCurtainsAffording Author:Nigel Lythgoe
“If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of losing love, respect and connection to others. And if you are human, in order to avoid or prevent the pain, trauma and perceived devastation of the loss, you will do anything to avoid your greatest fear from being visited on you.” IfsHumansPainOrderChanceHuman BeingsLossShareLosingConnectionsTraumaCardsChances AreDevastationGreatest FearLove RespectLosing Love Author:Iyanla Vanzant
“But this is such a "Wheel" moment. That song rocks. The best part is where John Mayer says how our connections are permanent, how if you drift apart from someone there's always a chance you can be part of their life again. How everything comes back around again.” IfsMomentsSongChanceRocksConnectionsPermanentWheelsMayer Book:Waiting For You Source: Waiting For You
“No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It was all a matter of missed connections, bad timing, blundering in the dark. We were always in the right place at the wrong time, the wrong place at the right time, always just missing each other, always just a few inches from figuring the whole thing out. That's what the story boils down to, I think. A series of lost chances. All the pieces were there from the beginning, but no one knew how to put them together.” ThinkingDoeMatterWholeStoriesTogetherLostDifficultDarkChanceAcceptingPiecesHappenedMissingConnectionsBlameSeriesInchesTimingRight TimeRight PlaceWrong TimeBad TimingMissed ConnectionsMissing Each Other Book:Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink) Source: Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)
“If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to make? What life changing relationships or passionate and lasting love affairs are lost to chance?” IfsImportantLostChanceFateFailingDependsConnectionsComplexesAffairPassionateLife ChangingEncountersLastingInteractionLove AffairLasting LoveComplex SystemsChance Encounters Author:Simon Pegg
“The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey's mind. Bailey was the son she liver with, her only boy.” WantMindWantedChangeChanceBoysSonConnectionsEastGrandmotherFloridaLiverTennesseeSeizingEast Tennessee Book:A Good Man is Hard to Find Source: A Good Man is Hard to Find