Connected Quotes - Page 31

• Our growing addiction to the Internet is impairing precious human capacities such as memory, concentration, pattern recognition, meaning-making, and intimacy. We are becoming more restless, more impatient, more demanding, and more insatiable, even as we become more connected and creative. We are rapidly losing the ability to think long about any- thing, even those issues we care about. We flit, moving restlessly from one link to another.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Memories, Moving, Thinking

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• As a citizen I felt appalled that we WENT TO WAR over faulty information - that felt false or at least "stretched" from the first time they started to push the idea that Iraq and 9/11 were connected, though they didn't seem to be and there was no logical reason for thinking they were. It's like your neighbors the Smiths burned your house down, and then the next day you retaliated by burning down the Jones' house.

  Christopher Durang

  War, Thinking, Ideas

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• We are not isolated islands, we are connected links in a chain. Each kind word, each smiling face, each good action, benefits our neighbor, nation, world. Let us pray and meditate together and we shall reach the shore of peace, spreading the sweet holy fragrance of love and vibrations of unity and harmony. Tuning our minds to the supreme consciousness, let us open our hearts and chant the words, "May everyone everywhere be happy."

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Sweet, Heart, Islands

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• If you look at suicides, most of them are connected to depression. And the mental health system just fails them. It's so sad. We know what to do. We just don't do it.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Suicide, Looks, Mental Health

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• Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything connected with the railroads... Railroad architecture has or would have a dignity of its own if it were only left to its work.

  John Ruskin

  Evil, Ornaments, Railroads

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• Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.

  Bill Veeck

  Team, Individual Effort, Games

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• We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such events do not exist.

  Carl Jung

  Mean, Events, Doe

  Carl Gustav Jung, Roderick Main (1997). “Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal”, p.25, Psychology Press

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• The books of jurisprudence were interesting to few, and entertaining to none: their value was connected with present use, and they sunk forever as soon as that use was superseded by the innovations of fashion, superior merit, or public authority.

  Edward Gibbon

  Fashion, Book, Interesting

  Edward Gibbon, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812”, p.1116, Modern Library

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• It was [Totila's] constant theme, that national vice and ruin are inseparably connected; that victory is the fruit of moral as well as military virtue; and that the prince, and even the people, are responsible for the crimes which they neglect to punish.

  Edward Gibbon

  Military, People, Victory

  Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman, Guizot (M., François), Sir William Smith (1862). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.218

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• Nothing is more favorable to the rise of politeness and learning, than a number of neighboring and independent states, connected together by commerce and policy.

  David Hume

  Independent, Numbers, Together

  David Hume (1854). “Philosophical works”, p.127

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• There's no great movie where you haven't been emotionally connected to the main character.

  Harald Zwart

  Character, Havens, Main Characters

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not very active on social media. I'm not on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram, or anything like that. But I think it's wonderful that they're out there. They're fantastic. I have a lot of siblings and friends that use it, and it's great for them. It's such a connected world.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Sibling, Thinking, Media

  Source: collider.com

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• I always say my age is connected with three Cs. In here, cuore, which means the heart. Up here, cervello, which is the brain. And, of course, down here: the coglioni. I no feel my age, I tell you.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Heart, Mean, Brain

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• Spiritual strength is connected to faithful obedience to God's commands.

  Max Anders

  Spiritual, Faithful, Obedience

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• Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we're really available, really open.

  Adyashanti

  Way, Causes, Happens

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• Even the most casual events are connected to God's purpose for His people from all eternity.

  Alistair Begg

  People, Events, Purpose

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• It wasn't shared social status or ethnicity that brought Jesus' followers together either, nor was it total agreement on exactly who this Jesus character was - a prophet? The Messiah? The Son of God? No, there is one thing that connected all these dissimilar people together it was a shared sense of need: a hunger, a thirst, a longing. It was the certainty that, when Jesus said He came for the sick, this meant Jesus came for me.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Jesus, Character, Son

  Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.92, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We create the possibility for a better human form in our next life if during our jamaloca existence after death, when we still have an astral body, we can have memories connected with music.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Memories, Body, Next

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• No matter where you are in the game, no matter how successful you might be, there will always be others out there who are more talented or more beautiful or more connected than you. Get used to it! If you start dwelling on everybody else's genius, it'll become a huge wave of doubt.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Beautiful, Successful, Games

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• I have seen so few films in which the sex felt really respected by the filmmaker. Hollywood too often shies away from it or makes adolescent jokes about it... Sex is only connected to the negative because people are scared of it.

  John Cameron Mitchell

  Sex, People, Hollywood

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most of the women in your life will outlast the men in your life. The Saturday Night Live ladies - Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch, Tina - and I text pictures of our kids back and forth all the time. It keeps us connected. As my nanny used to say, the older you get, the more important it is to know people that knew you when.

  Amy Poehler

  Kids, Night, Men

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• Keep reminding yourself of the way things are connected, of great relatedness. All things are implicated in one another and in sympathy with each other. This event is the consequence of some other one. Things push and pull on each other, and breathe together, and are ONE.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Together, Events, Way

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.77, Modern Library

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• The Internet is the global brain, the cyberspacially connected, telepathic, collective domain that we've all been hungering for.

  Terence McKenna

  Brain, Internet, Domain

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• Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. One thing we know: our god is also your god. The earth is precious to him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.

  Chief Seattle

  Mother, Children, Son

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• I was looking for some way to put my music to some service on a nightly basis. You go into a town, you play a little music, you leave something behind. That idea connected us to the local community. It was a very simple idea, but it really resonated with me.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Simple, Play, Ideas

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