Dots Quotes

• Everything starts from a dot.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Inspiring, Art, Drawing

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• Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Powerful, Purpose, Thread

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• Dream big. Start small and then connect the dots

  Dan Millman

  Dream, Bigs

  Dan Millman (2007). “Wisdom of the Peaceful Warrior: A Companion to the Book that Changes Lives”, p.22, H J Kramer

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• A line is a dot that went for a walk.

  Paul Klee

  Inspirational, Art, Drawing

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• The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist

  Amanda Palmer

  Artist, Share, Impulse

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• Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.

  David Byrne

  Filling In, Filling

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• Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.

  Amanda Palmer

  Creative, Connections, Collecting

  Amanda Palmer (2014). “The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• Life is a million different dots making one gigantic picture. And maybe the big picture is nice, maybe it's amazing, but if you're standing with your face pressed up against a bunch of black dots, it's really hard to tell.

  Rebecca Stead

  Nice, Black, Different

  Rebecca Stead (2012). “Liar & Spy”, p.90, Wendy Lamb Books

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• From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

  Bill Watterson

  Way, Conformity, My Own

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• What am I thankful for? MY POLKA DOTS!!

  Dusty Rhodes

  Funny, Wwe, Polka

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• The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact - sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.

  Seth Godin

  Teacher, Art, Book

  Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.198, Penguin

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• I am just another dot in the world

  Yayoi Kusama

  World

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• If you’re worried about giving your secrets away, you can share your dots without connecting them.

  Austin Kleon

  Giving, Secret, Worried

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.85, Workman Publishing

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• Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well worn path.

  Steve Jobs

  Believe, Heart, Giving

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.

  Damon Lindelof

  Connecting The Dots, Connecting

  "'Prometheus' Writer Damon Lindelof on Why 'Vague' Is Good and the 'Sadistically Cool' Fallout From the 'Lost' Finale". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 7, 2012.

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• You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Success, Trust

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Each dot: the center of a circle without circumference...

  Frederick Franck

  Circles

  "Echoes from the Bottomless Well". Book by Frederick Franck, p. 2, 1985.

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• I never could make out what those damned dots meant.

  Lord Randolph Churchill

  Science, Make Out

  "The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations" edited Elizabeth Knowles, Oxford University Press, 2004.

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• A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.

  Don DeLillo

  Photography, Past, Technology

  Don DeLillo (1998). “Underworld: A Novel”, Scribner

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• Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  "Edgewalkers: People and Organizations That Take Risks, Build Bridges, and". Book by Judi Neal, p. 163, October 30, 2006.

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• It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.

  Horace Walpole

  Ink, Misery, Duchess

  Horace Walpole, Peter Cunningham (1859). “The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford”, p.22

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• You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot:
  You can love and think, and the Earth cannot!

  William Brighty Rands

  Thinking, Earth

  William Brighty Rands (1871). “Lilliput Lectures”, p.23

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• I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Numbers, Giving

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• This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving forward, the new platforms are here and this vision of the digital decade will be a reality.

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Technology, Reality

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• The universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everything else is different? No, we’ve got seven other planets. The sun? No, the sun is one of those dots in the night sky. The Milky Way? No, it’s one of a hundred billion galaxies. And the universe - maybe it’s countless other universes.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Night, Sky, Special

  "Why Revive ‘Cosmos?’ Neil DeGrasse Tyson Says Just About Everything We Know Has Changed". Interview with David Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2014.

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