Quotes About Connecting Ideas

#1. If there is a single maxim that runs through this book's arguments, it is that we are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them.

Steven Johnson

#2. If I say "yes" won't this change the order of the world?

Christin Lore Weber

#3. I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate.

Adam Rickitt

#4. Country [China] needs to continue opening up and keep connecting. It needs to realize that the world has become one. The old concept of isolation, the idea that you can solve your problems on your own does not work anymore - neither in cultural, economic, nor political terms.

Zhang Xin

#5. I give culture this meaning: exercise of thought, acquisition of general ideas, habit of connecting causes and effects ... I believe that it means thinking well, whatever one thinks, and therefore acting well, whatever one does.

Antonio Gramsci

#6. For someone whose goal in life was to stay unemployed, I can't imagine what I thought was going to happen. I was so terrified of everything, I just thought I'd curl up in the gutter and die, and by a complete mistake, my life turned out to be absolutely wonderful.

Deborah Eisenberg

#7. From our first babblings to our last word,
we make but one statement, and that is our life.

Richard Paul Evans

#8. If the industrial era was about building things, the social era is about connecting things, people and ideas.

Nilofer Merchant

#9. I'm not even worried about the Internet; that ain't even my thing. I'm not even an Internet guy. You rarely even see me into that.

Shy Glizzy

#10. The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive the world, to help a student absorb the rules of a discipline. The teachers who do that get remembered.

David Brooks

#11. The idea of connecting all people to knowledge and each other is enduring

Bran Ferren

#12. To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting.

Eric Maisel

#13. The quest for glory can never be satisfied, it must be extinguished.

Martin Luther

#14. The suffering that started off challenging our being and our ideas of what life is and should be ends up opening our heart, expanding our identity, and connecting us forever to the human family and life.

John P. Schuster

#15. Networking is not about just connecting people. It's about connecting people with people, people with ideas, and people with opportunities.

Michele Jennae

#16. The thing is, you throw brains and souls into an animal and stir, you don't really know what you're going to get.

Laini Taylor

#17. Fortune follows those who can create ideas by connecting old ones. Strong personal brands are created when connection and creation connect.

Ryan Lilly

#18. Creating ideas that spread and connecting the disconnected are the two pillars of our new society, and both of them require the posture of the artist.

Seth Godin

#19. What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever.

Seth Godin

#20. I think I sort of blossomed, so to speak, around 17. I started to get hips and put on weight, which I was very happy about. And that's when I met this agent, who told me I had to lose 10 pounds. I said, 'You've got to be kidding me. I finally got it on - I'm not losing it!'

Tricia Helfer

#21. Real change comes from finding and embracing and connecting and amplifying those that are inclined to like you and believe in you. Ideas spread from person to person, not so much from you to them. So find your biggest fans and give them a story to tell.

Seth Godin

#22. When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp ...

James Russell Lowell

#23. To say a sheep has 5 legs doesn't make it so.

Abraham Lincoln