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• In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.

  Douglas Coupland

  Way, Computer, States

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• In our private lives in the last decade, we've gone through enormous change that has affected everything, from the way we do business to how we view intelligence and attention. We have to rethink it all in a more interactive, networked, and collaborative way.

  Cathy Davidson

  Views, Attention, Gone

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• Emerging at the other end, we will not be the same as we were; we will have become more humble, more connected to the natural world, fitter, leaner, more skilled and, ultimately, wiser.

  Rob Hopkins

  Humble, World, Natural

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• If your friend's friend's friend (whom you may not have even met) is obese, a smoker or a zealot of some kind then it is a lot more likely that you will be too.

  James H. Fowler

  May, Kind, Mets

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• No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Ideas, People, Intention

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• We live in two worlds - order and chaos. In the world of order, we plan, reflect, and think about what to do next. In the world of chaos, things happen, we get things done, yet unpredictability persists. In one world, we like to think we are in control. In the other, we mingle together with increasing complexity, conflict, and uncertainty.

  David Spangler

  Thinking, Order, Two

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• Because knowledge changes so rapidly, knowledge flow is more important than knowledge stock.

  John Hagel

  Important, Flow

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• Prior to the internet, the last technology that had any real effect on the way people sat down and talked together was the table

  Clay Shirky

  Real, Technology, People

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• There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?'

  Howard Thurman

  Two, Firsts, Asks

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• Bid for connection: Each of our daily interactions with another person.

  John M. Gottman

  Connections, Interaction, Persons

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• Independence is a political concept, not a biological concept.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Political, Independence, Concepts

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.27, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I am interested in reconstructing symbols. It's about connecting with an older knowledge and trying to discover continuities in why we search for heaven.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Heaven, Trying, Symbols

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• A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.

  Alain de Botton

  Travel, Information, Useless

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• The moment we change our thinking and start connecting with God, we start connecting with His plans, which always exceed our small plans.

  Danny Gokey

  God, Christian, Thinking

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• Plainly it isn't an exact science, despite it being a complex interaction of micro-decisions and corresponding thought; perhaps it doesn't always work and we pass by some potential soulmates like the proverbial ships in the night, never quite connecting. Then again, perhaps the system is tenacious and continues to run like a computer program on infinite loop, so that if at first you don't meet, you are drawn back together for another try.

  Simon Pegg

  Running, Soulmate, Night

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• I truly believe that our major social ills would disappear if we just spent our lives perfecting the art of connecting with each other.

  Sean Stephenson

  Art, Believe, Social

  Sean Stephenson (2009). “Get Off Your "But": How to End Self-Sabotage and Stand Up for Yourself”, p.35, John Wiley and Sons

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• I do enjoy manga but would not consider myself a 'super-fan,' only really connecting with certain works such as 'Lone Wolf and Cub,' or 'Tekkon Kinkreet,' the more breakthrough works, and 'Akira,' to me, is the daddy of them all.

  Gerard Way

  Daddy, Fans, Lone Wolf

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• We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.

  David Suzuki

  Children, Dirty, Naughty

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• I love sharing my stories and experiences with people and connecting to them on both a humorous and emotional level.

  Tori Spelling

  Humorous, Emotional, People

  "Tori Spelling to Pen Third Book" by Julie Jordan, people.com. January 07, 2010.

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• I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.

  Will Smith

  Thinking, Collective Unconscious, Ideas

  "Will Smith Interview - I AM LEGEND". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. December 10, 2007.

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• I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Lying, Law

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• I'm equally guilty of using technology - I Twitter, I text people, I chat. But I think there's something strangely insidious about it that it makes us think we're closer when in fact we're not seeing each other, we're not connecting.

  Jason Reitman

  Thinking, Technology, People

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• Consequential strangers help us stretch beyond the relatively rigid boxes that the people who have known us the longest - our family and close friends - often put us into. Through interacting with people who do not know us as well, we are more free to experiment with ourselves, and less likely to have our new behaviors and roles reflected back to us by people who object, 'But that's not like you!'

  Melinda Blau

  People, Roles, Helping

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• In the last century the practice of medicine has become no more than an adjunct to the pharmaceutical industry and the other aspects of the huge, powerful and immensely profitable health care industry. Medicine is no longer an independent profession. Doctors have become nothing more than a link connecting the pharmaceutical industry to the consumer.

  Vernon Coleman

  Powerful, Independent, Medicine

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• The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.

  Pema Chodron

  Joy, Resentment, Obstacles

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.31, Shambhala Publications

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