Contact Quotes - Page 3

• I don't really set personal goals for home runs or anything like that. However many I hit, I hit. If I'm making consistent contact and hitting the ball hard, then I will hit home runs.

  Justin Morneau

  Running, Home, Goal

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• The telephone operator has one of the biggest roles in creating your organization's image....indeed, many people may come into contact with no one except your operator.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Organization, Creating, People

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• When I'm running, I'm looking for contact. It's kind of weird. It brings a fire to me. When I get older I'll probably get wise and not do that.

  Ray Rice

  Wise, Running, Fire

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• In Tantrism, the first thing is having the experience of touch, of profound contact with things, with the universe, without mental commotion. Everything begins there: touching the universe deeply. When you touch deeply, you no longer need to let go. That occurs naturally.

  Daniel Odier

  Letting Go, Profound, Touching

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• A mind always in contact with children and servants, whose aspirations and ambitions rise no higher than the roof that shelters it, is necessarily dwarfed in its proportions.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Children, Ambition, Mind

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity. All young people should be taught now to put up with loneliness ... because the less man is compelled to come into contact with others, the better off he is.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Loneliness, Men, People

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• When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light of the gospel to pumpkin pie. These, however, much as we may regret it, most savages receive with indifference. What they really value among the gifts that we bring to them is intoxicating liquor which enables them, for the first time in their lives, to have the illusion for a few brief moments that it is better to be alive than dead.

  Bertrand Russell

  Regret, Men, Light

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Society in Ethics and Politics”, p.165, Routledge

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• A light hand is one which never feels the contact of the bit with the bars.

  Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

  Light, Hands, Bars

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• A firm hand is one which holds the horse in full contact.

  Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

  Horse, Hands, Firm

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• I just want to live as a simple Buddhist monk, but during the last thirty years I have made many friends around the world and I want to have close contact with these people. I want to contribute to harmony and peace of mind, for less conflict. Wherever the possibililty is, I'm ready. This is my life's goal.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Simple, Years

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• Players from the Dominican Republic have a history of not playing well in cold weather.... The ball hurts their hands when they make contact.

  Grady Little

  Hurt, Player, Hands

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• Do not close your eyes before suffering. Find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means, Including personal contact and visits, images, sound. By such means, awaken yourself and others to the reality of suffering in the world.

  Gautama Buddha

  Mean, Eye, Reality

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• Twenty-some states in the United States have statutes that say showing the nipples to children is oscene. That's the first thing we come into contact with when we arrive on this palnet: a woman's breasts!

  Clint Eastwood

  Children, Twenties, United States

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• Instead of talking at each other about the non-business-related contact, talk to each other about your concerns about marriage. Listen a lot, too.

  Carolyn Hax

  Talking, Concern, Business Related

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• A lot of my work deals with this emotion of discouragement or fear, and this emotion cannot be approached without humor because then things become indigestible. You don't want to eat them; you don't want to be in contact with them.

  Camille Henrot

  Want, Emotion, Discouragement

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You forget about it, after awhile. You forget that you even have it on. It becomes part of you. You get used to it, even the teeth and the contacts, which bothered the hell out of me. It ends up being something that is part of the role, and part of the thing that you're doing. After awhile, it just feels pretty damn awesome.

  Michael Rooker

  Teeth, Roles, Forget

  Source: collider.com

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• I grew up in the church, Resurrection Baptist Church in Philadelphia, and my grandmother was that grandmother at the church, the one always at the church, always putting on the events. It was deeply instilled in me that every action, everything I create, everything I say and do in the world is inexorably bound to the lives of everybody I come in contact with - and it's my responsibility to put things into the world that have a positive influence on humanity.

  Will Smith

  Responsibility, Grandmother, Philadelphia

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Having come into contact with a civilization which has over-emphasized the freedom of the individual, we are in fact faced with one of the big problems of Africa in the modern world. Our problem is just this: how to get the benefits of European society - benefits that have been brought about by an organization based upon the individual - and yet retain African's own structure of society in which the individual is a member of a kind of fellowship.

  Julius Nyerere

  Civilization, Organization, Benefits

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• Many of the trans women who are in our world are also in Caitlyn's Jenner world. And yes I've definitely spoken to her multiple times, talked to her, socialized with her. It's a small community when all is said and done, the trans community in Los Angeles. So everybody really knows each other and everybody's in contact.

  Jill Soloway

  Our World, Community, Done

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• I grew up in a fundamentalist protestant family that stressed that we were a select people and so we were to avoid contact with others who did not share our faith.

  Garrison Keillor

  People, Stressed, Share

  "Humor has to surprise us, otherwise it isn't funny". Interview with George Plimpton, blankonblank.org.

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• Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Photography, Communication, Violent

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• I am trying to make some kind of connection to what is going on in the world, to make some sort of contact. And I use the instruments that our modern world offers, these extraordinary instruments of photography and film and computers.

  Leon Golub

  Photography, Trying, Connections

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• Wrestling is only gay when you make eye contact.

  Felipe Esparza

  Wrestling, Eye, Gay

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• Here's a guy that when he puts his contacts in, he can see better.

  Frank Caliendo

  Guy

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• If no-eye contact sex were a sport, I'm not saying I'd make it to the Olympics, but I like my chances.

  Dov Davidoff

  Sports, Sex, Eye

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