Connect Dots Sayings

#1. You ask every conceivable question after Sept. 11 in terms of what more could have been done, what could have been done differently. My impression from working on these cases and investigations for almost nine years was that an awful lot of people were working over time to connect dots.

Mary Jo White

#2. students today are educated collecting dots. Almost none of it spent teaching
them the skills necessary to connect dots. The magic of connecting dots is that once you learn the techniques, the dots can change but you'll still be good at connecting them.

Seth Godin

#3. We should use discernment to connect dots, avoid traps, and make wise judgments without becoming too judgmental, suspicious, and faultfinders.

Assegid Habtewold

#4. Sometimes what we need is right in front of us, we just have to connect the dots and embrace what we already know.

Nick Jones

#5. When we inject people with positivity, their outlook expands. They see the big picture. When we inject them with neutrality or negativity, their peripheral vision shrinks. There is no big picture, no dots to connect.

Barbara Fredrickson

#6. 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.

Steve Jobs

#7. Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.

Douglas Coupland

#8. Connecting the dots. That's what Mom said stargazing is all about. It's the same up there as it is down here, Jackie. You have to look for the things that connect us all. Find the ways our paths cross, our lives intersect, and our hearts collide.

Clare Vanderpool

#9. 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

#10. One little thing led to another. One success, one particular challenge, could spur thoughts about another product, or a different iteration of an existing product, or a whole new channel of revenue. As Steve liked to say, "You can only connect the dots of how things really happened in hindsight.

Brent Schlender

#11. Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

Lois Wyse

#12. Maybe everyone in the world was this inconsistent, this fragments. All we could see of each other
all we could see of ourselves
was a ragged person-shaped outline, a game of connect-the-dots without enough dots.

Daryl Gregory

#13. We connect the dots in the drawing with our mind. We give them a meaning, a figurative sense, which is self-reflexive in that it creates us, because we are the experiencer of the moment.

Frederick Lenz

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

Amanda Palmer

#15. We can only connect the dots we collect, which makes everything you write about you ... your connections are the thread that you weave into the cloth that becomes the story that only you can tell.

Amanda Palmer

#16. She was upset about something and all I wanted to do was get her naked and play connect the dots.

Jay Crownover

#17. 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

#18. Symphony is the ability to see the big picture, connect the dots, combine disparate things into something new. Visual artists in particular are good at seeing how the pieces come together. I experienced this myself by trying to learn to draw.

Daniel H. Pink

#19. I used to think only people like Mother Teresa and Gandhi had a mission in life. We all have one. How do you find it? You listen to your life.

All those dead-end jobs? There's no such thing. In God's economy, nothing is ever wasted. The dots all connect in time.

Regina Brett

#20. An effective Board can connect all the right dots well.

Pearl Zhu

#21. Big moments happen with the smallest actions, and sometimes it's not until later we connect the dots, but in that instant, I knew that somehow, someway Declan was going to own my heart.

Ilsa Madden-Mills

#22. Outlier" CIOs have better capabilities to connect innovation dots.

Pearl Zhu

#23. If you can connect all the dots between what you see today and where you want to go, then it's probably not ambitious enough or aspirational enough.

Shantanu Narayen

#24. My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.

David Levithan

#25. A cover letter can connect the dots between where you've been, where you are, and where you're trying to go.

Sophia Amoruso

#26. Everything has a reason; but the moment to know the reason would be revealed the day dots are connected.

Vikrmn

#27. Creativity isn't necessarily a paint-by-numbers process, more as a "connect-the-dots" adventure.

Pearl Zhu

#28. I glance up at the stars, trying to piece together constellations in the night sky. But just like my life, they are nothing but a jumbled up map of dots that don't connect, and they only leave more unexplained questions.

A. Zavarelli

#29. Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed in isolation.

Ban Ki-moon

#30. If you can't connect the Dots, Find the right dots first.

Mohith Agadi

#31. It is not history, theology or mythology that interest me. It is the fact that history, theology or mythology could have alternative interpretations or explanations. I try to connect the dots between the past and the present.

Ashwin Sanghi

#32. We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road map. But in the end we learn that life is lived in the side roads, alleys, and detours. Alan Christoffersen's diary

Richard Paul Evans

#33. Innovation is to connect the dots - synthesizing that goes in one mind, and teamwork through collective insight.

Pearl Zhu

#34. The inability of some critics to connect the dots doesn't make pointillism pointless

Georges Seurat

#35. We write to find out what we didn't know we knew. We write to know deeper and truer. We write to connect the dots: a whole new constellation.

Carolyn Coman

#36. Dream big. Start small and then connect the dots

Dan Millman

#37. Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story

Esther Freud

#38. Angels love to create synchronicities because each synchronicity produces an illumination point for a soul to connect the dots on life experiences. This insight, in turn, creates an opportunity to expand the heart and grow the soul, which always results in positive change for humanity.

Molly Friedenfeld

#39. What we're going to do is try to get TSA out of the human resources and personnel business and into the security business to connect the dots.

John Mica

#40. And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they've gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots.

Eric Massa

#41. Life is simply a connect-the dots game, and all the dots have already been identified and organized by somebody else. All you have to do is follow the blueprint, use the system, or work the program that they provide.

Jack Canfield

#42. Our task, your task ... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.

Donald Rumsfeld

#43. I have never done Cult TV before, the convention was good. It gives the fans a chance to meet the celebrities. Connect with the guy that used to be a bunch of coloured dots on your TV screen.

Peter Tork

#44. Difference thinking' is more than the ability to connect the dots, though. It's about seeing the truth, recognising the opportunity in that truth and then acting on it. You need to learn how to see the dots and understand the significance of connecting them before you can begin.

Bernadette Jiwa

#45. I think for new artists the hardest thing is putting the face with a name. People maybe heard our song on the radio or something but until they get several impressions of who you are - from whatever it is, whether TV or a live show, I feel like they don't quite connect the dots.

Charles Kelley

#46. Reflection is a good thing. It allows us to look back in time so we can connect the dots between specific memories to reveal the purpose and meaning behind synchronistic events.

Molly Friedenfeld

#47. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later.

Steve Jobs

#48. In order for us to truly create and contribute to the world, we have to be able to connect countless dots, to cross-pollinate ideas from a wealth of disciplines, to combine and recombine these pieces and build new castles.

Maria Popova

#49. Cuz I look like Barbie." I reply, knowing they can connect the dots. "Bad girls don't like Barbie?" Michael asks, both his eyebrows rising. "No. Bad girls want to rip Barbie's head off and flush it down the toilet,

Amy A. Bartol

#50. I want to be a vehicle to help people connect the dots that let them make their lives healthier, happier, more beautiful, and more fun.

Daphne Oz

#51. A learning mind has more dots to connect for sparking innovation.

Pearl Zhu

#52. This impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist. If

Amanda Palmer

#53. From now on I'll connect the dots my own way.

Bill Watterson

#54. I've known that forever. You've always loved me ... you just didn't connect the dots until I pointed out the pattern.

Mary Calmes

#55. The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots.

Diane Watson

#56. It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.

Al Gore

#57. Don't just play the number game, but connect the contextual dots and focus on the overall business objectives.

Pearl Zhu

#58. There are no dots in Tee's
Or cross in eye's
There is no connect in child neglect

Lilly White

#59. Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity, and meaning in their job.

Ken Blanchard

#60. When I get stuck, I take a long walk outside or go to a movie. I get out of my own way so I can hear the quiet voices that hold all of the answers that connect the dots.

Rolonda Watts

#61. We are here to live moment by moment, and each moment brings a task, a challenge, a goal. It's good to have big goals, but we need to connect the dots between where we are and where we are going, one day, one moment at a time.

Dan Millman