Connections Quotes

• The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

  Adrienne Rich

  Inspirational, Motivational, Feminist

  "The Last Poem I Loved: 'Modotti' by Adrienne Rich" by Laura Goode, therumpus.net. April 02, 2012.

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• A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

  Lois Wyse

  Life, Friendship, Best Friend

  Lois Wyse (1996). “Women Make the Best Friends: A Celebration”

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• A connection to Spirit restores your confidence, relieves your anxiety, and frees you from the desire to control everything in your life.

  Sonia Choquette

  Anxiety, Desire, Spirit

  FaceBook post by Sonia Choquette from Mar 07, 2014

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• It is my hope that our garden's story-and the stories of gardens across America-will inspire families, schools, and communities to try their own hand at gardening and enjoy all the gifts of health, discovery, and connection a garden can bring.

  Michelle Obama

  School, Garden, Discovery

  "Excerpt: 'American Grown' by First Lady Michelle Obama", abcnews.go.com. May 29, 2012.

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• In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Science, Natural

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.162, Ravenio Books

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• In order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be seen, really seen.

  Brené Brown

  Order, Happens

  "Can We Gain Strength From Shame?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 11, 2013.

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• Great innovations, powerful interactions and real art are often produced by someone in a state of wonder. Looking around with stars in your eyes and amazement at the tools that are available to you can inspire generosity and creativity and connection

  Seth Godin

  Art, Stars, Powerful

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• One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Moving On, Wise, Moving Forward

  "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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• People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Attitude, Heart

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jul 01, 2012

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• Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

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• Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.

  Dan Brown

  Lonely, Loneliness, Technology

  Dan Brown (2005). “Angels & Demons”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• What I needed was a connection to life that was real and lasting.

  Claire Danes

  Real, Lasting Love, Needed

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• If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

  Matthew Simpson

  Faith, Men, He Man

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• Consider frequently the connection of all things in the universe and their relation to one another. For things are somehow implicated with one another, and all in a way friendly to one another.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Friendly, Way, Relation

  Marcus Aurelius (1945). “Marcus Aurelius and His Times”

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• I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Income, Use, Taxes

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• When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

  Steve Jobs

  Creativity, Artist, Obvious Things

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.35, Prabhat Prakashan

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• If I can make a connection, one connection, to any one listener in the world, I consider that successful.

  Wynonna Judd

  Successful, World, Listeners

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• With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Powerful, Work, Phones

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• Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate the course of phenomena in each particular laboratory; thus I resolved the digestive canal into several separate parts.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Cutting, Order, Chemicals

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• I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.

  Peter Jennings

  Strong, Gone, Periods

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• I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.

  Anita Desai

  Character, Trying, Stories

  "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.

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• It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.

  Agnetha Faltskog

  Needs, Strange, Revelations

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

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• Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal.

  John M. McHugh

  Military, America, People

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• It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world.

  Thom Mayne

  Art, Political, World

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• So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.

  Ted Nelson

  Records, Paper, Able

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