“I thought about societies where exceptional fortunes are built up in industries with very little connection to out sincere and significant needs, industries where it is difficult to escape from the disparity between a seriousness of means and a triviality of ends.” NeedsMeanLittlesEndsDifficultIndustryBuiltConnectionsFortuneSignificantSincereExceptionalSeriousnessDisparityTriviality Book:The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work Source: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
“Hollywood can be an exclusive place. Who gets to be on TV, or who gets to make TV can be a small clique of an industry. There's so many talented, skilled people, all over the world, that might not have the connections or the opportunities to work in TV.” PeopleWorldMightOpportunityTvsIndustryConnectionsHollywoodExclusiveClique Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“You don't have to necessarily go down the drama school route, or have connections in the industry. You can just make it.” SchoolIndustryDramaConnectionsRoutes Author:Kaya Scodelario
“Acting is something that I couldn't recommend to anyone because the odds of it working out are so insane. I don't know how it worked out for me. I had no connections to this industry. I had no ins anywhere.” KnowsActingKnow HowIndustryConnectionsWork OutInsaneOdds Author:Kat Dennings
“The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere. The bourgeoisie has, through its exploitation of the world market, given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country. To the great chagrin of reactionaries, it has drawn from under the feet of industry the national ground on which it stood.” WorldNeedsCountryCharacterGivenFeetProductsIndustryConnectionsProductionsSurfaceSettlingConsumptionExploitationGlobesConsumerismExpandingOverconsumptionReactionariesBourgeoisieChagrin Author:Karl Marx
“I established strong connections between Rockwell and Israel Aircraft Industries.” StrongIndustryConnectionsIsraelAircraftStrong Connection Author:Arnon Milchan
“Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass - the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that - so they're kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not.” KindTechnologyIndustryMassConnectionsStructureCriticalDrivenCardsApplesBusEcosystemsCritical Mass Author:Bill Gates
“I feel like there isn't as much mystery to music anymore. That could be a good thing or a bad thing. There definitely is no seperation anymore. Your connection with your fans is like two clicks away on a phone with a Twitter or a blog. I think that's a good thing. It's a new music industry. You're really connected with your fans.” ThinkingFeelsTwoMysteryFansIndustryConnectionsGood ThingsPhonesConnectedBad ThingsBlogsMusic IndustryClicksNew MusicSeperation Author:Jason Wade
“I think there's a huge parallel that affects my musical taste, and connections that have to do with my ethnic diversity and my musical tastes and the diversity of that. And it's interesting that, growing up on the circuit, it posed such a challenge, not only to me deciding what my identity was amongst my peers, but then on the music side, it was like trying to explain or convince people especially in the music industry that there was a place for what I was trying to do. But at the same time, I think it has a lot to do with timing and even me, like, understanding it.” PeopleThinkingTryingUnderstandingSidesChallengesInterestingGrowing UpGrowingIdentityHugeIndustryTasteDiversityConnectionsMusicalConvinceTimingPeersParallelsMusic IndustryCircuitsMusical TasteEthnic Diversity Author:Miguel
“Film is more of a dream when you're younger. I found it almost impossible to see how you would get into the industry having no connections, nobody in the family being anywhere near it and never meeting anybody that had been on a set.” DreamFilmFoundImpossibleIndustryConnectionsMeetings Author:Ben Wheatley
“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
“I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there's already so much narcissism flowing in this industry, I was like, 'Really, one more?' So I was against it at first. But I really love the idea of the direct connection - there's no middle man muddling it up.” MenFirstsMadeIdeasFunMiddleIndustryDirectConnectionsNarcissismNarcissistic Author:Kelly Clarkson