Top 100 Quotes About Connections
#1. God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?
Ben Carson
#2. What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.
Sir Fulke Greville
#3. If you have a problem in mass society, you call the cops. The experts. You no longer have any operative connection with yourself or others, or with a functioning community.
John Zerzan
#4. But I came to see that Las Vegas is not a freak but is, instead, deeply integrated with the rest of the country, and the world beyond. It is symptom, mirror, metaphor.
Timothy O'Grady
#5. In order to live the life we desire, and set the intention for greater happiness and more meaningful connections with others, we have to release the hold that our past has on us.
Deepak Chopra
#6. It doesn't matter how much money you've got, or how many connections, there's always something you want that's out of reach.
Jenson Button
#7. Boys' connections - to other people and to their selves - can enable them to think and act of their own volition and to resist overly restrictive norms and expectation when they are faced with pressures to conform.
Judy Chu
#8. Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.
Robert E.Lee
#9. William Kowalski is the kind of storyteller you don't see quite enough these days. The yarn spinner with a generous soul. The Hundred Hearts is a moving, humane adventure about the price of personal connections and the costs of sacrifice. I tore through this bad boy in two short nights.
Victor LaValle
#10. It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas ... And that this is how culture moves forward. That culture is a phenomenon dependent on the generation of ideas, plans, notions, connections. So this is precisely what these compounds are doing.
Terence McKenna
#11. Basal Ganglia casts an unsettling spell, but one that in its aphoristic intensity and lightning-flash insights into human loneliness and connection, achieves a genuine empathic wisdom.
Sergio De La Pava
#12. If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to make? What life changing relationships or passionate and lasting love affairs are lost to chance?
Simon Pegg
#13. No connection can ever be broken if love holds tight at both ends.
Shannon L. Alder
#14. Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.
Ernest L. Boyer
#16. Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
Marquis De Sade
#17. Cool is the emotional straightjacket. It makes us less available for connection which makes us less equipped for leadership roles.
Brene Brown
#18. The connection we have is something special. We know each other since we were in the womb! You can't get any closer then that
Bill Kaulitz
#19. There are now more phone connections in the world than there are people.
John E. Mackey
#20. Now anyone can move anywhere. I've made deep connections with people around the world since I tour everywhere that I will simply never see again.
Ian MacKaye
#21. Sometimes there is nothing to obey, the only thing to do is to maintain a vital connection with Jesus Christ, to see that nothing interferes with that.
Oswald Chambers
#22. There are no separations - only connections. There are no deaths - only transformations.
Debasish Mridha
#23. A deep connection starts with interest, open-mindedness, & paying attention to every detail including flaws.
April Mae Monterrosa
#24. The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
Seth Godin
#25. All connections are infused with dreams of what is possible in the future. Thus, when we lose something or someone important to us, we aren't just grieving the loss, we are grieving the shattered dream.
Bill Crawford
#26. When we are in a true Reiki space, species differences melt away and profound
interspecies connections are forged.
Kathleen Prasad
#27. Having to work hard never had any real appeal for me, and that may have some connection with me being in the movies.
Gary Cooper
#28. Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
Patrice O'Neal
#29. Don't assume you have to be extraordinary to be used by God. You don't have to have exceptional gifts, talents, abilities, or connections. God specializes in using ordinary people whose limitations and weaknesses make them ideal showcases for His greatness and glory.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#30. With me the connection between the cosmic phenomena and human behaviour is a living faith that draws me nearer to God, humbles me and makes me readier for facing Him.
Mahatma Gandhi
#31. Wallets can establish connections and change opinions. Things that fall apart can be glued back by money with astonishing alacrity.
Robert Walser
#32. There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
Lakhdar Brahimi
#33. We are all linked by a fabric of unseen connections. This fabric is constantly changing and evolving. This field is directly structured and influenced by our behavior and by our understanding.
David Bohm
#34. I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
Adam Duritz
#35. What I'm really focused on is connecting people around shared interests, so together they can make good stuff happen. I'm more focused on helping people discover their power as individuals, but through those connections with one another.
Pierre Omidyar
#36. It seems to me that art has lost its connection to spirit.
Brian Froud
#37. I do think that people yearn for connection and intimacy, and that they're hard things to achieve.
Chelsea Martin
#38. [Alan] Watts did two main things for me. He opened up the connections between what I was doing and the traditional Oriental philosophies. And he pointed me toward the distinction between Self and Mind.
Werner Erhard
#39. Life was built from the bricks of these connections and milestones and moments where you tell your two best friends that you're about to have a child.
Christina Lauren
#40. It wasn't that she was sad - sadness had very little to do with it, really, considering that most of the time, she felt close to nothing at all. Feeling required nerves, connections, sensory input. The only thing she felt was numb. And tired. Yes, she very frequently felt tired.
Nenia Campbell
#41. When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human being.
Gayl Jones
#42. Ray Bradbury's connections to fantasy, space, cinema, to the macabre and the melancholy, were all born of his years spent running, jumping, galloping through the woods, across the fields, and down the brick-paved streets of Waukegan.
Sam Weller
#44. The business that leaders are in today, is the business of transforming awareness ... There is deep longing for more meaning, for connections.
Otto Scharmer
#45. All connections - great and small - that come to those who have a dream, and stay focused on that dream, change into gifts for realizing their dreams.
Ilchi Lee
#46. Self-realisation means that we have been consciously connected with our source of being. Once we have made this connection, then nothing can go wrong ...
Swami Paramananda
#47. Often people fail to start or complete a task because they don't see any connection between what they're doing and what they really want to accomplish in life.
John C. Maxwell
#48. We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.
Nikki Giovanni
#49. We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity ... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.
Albert Einstein
#50. There is this mythology that says that when people are born, their brains are essentially fixed very early on and they're not able to change their connections. I was aware that was a myth and that people could learn new skills.
Daniel Tammet
#51. Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.
Norman Cousins
#52. The early Christians saw the connections quite clearly, which is why they set themselves apart from the licentiousness. They did not frequent houses of prostitution, they did not divorce, they did not kill their babies, and they did not engage in sexual perversion.
Anthony Esolen
#53. We need to expose the motives of our political leaders, point out their connections to corporate power, show how huge profits are being made out of death and suffering.
Howard Zinn
#54. If there is a connection between Harry Potter and my new novel, it's my interest in characters.
J.K. Rowling
#55. It was that you had to be so careful with grief. Grief sought connections: it stacked, or swarmed. It was only the first time you experienced sorrow that it stood alone, with nothing attached to it.
Meg Howrey
#56. I reserve my greatest admiration for those who continue to struggle to embrace the whole impossible tangle of snakes that is our society; those who fight to identify and strengthen human connections, and defeat polarizing forces that strain to drive us apart.
Shana Alexander
#57. The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.
Voltaire
#58. I feel like when I go on stage I feel so excited at the prospect that there will be a true connection.
Jenny Slate
#59. Make an impact with your connections. You don't only connect because you want to get people who will help you. You also connect in order to get to know who you can help.
Israelmore Ayivor
#60. A number of bloggers in economics and the financial sector have risen to prominence through the sheer strength of their work. Note it was not their family connections nor ties to Ivy League schools or elite banks, but rather the strength of their research, analysis and writing.
Barry Ritholtz
#61. What we want is to destroy our false, inorganic connections, especially those related to money, and re-establish the living organic connections, with the cosmos, the sun and earth, with mankind and nation and family. Start with the sun, and the rest will slowly, slowly happen.
D.H. Lawrence
#62. Be real. Make connections with people. Look them in the eye. Tell them how you feel. Don't be afraid to say what you mean. When you let go of the stuff you hold inside, you'll be amazed at what comes back to you.
Rachael Ray
#63. I don't see many people with longevity anymore. Everything was harder when I started, and you had to take acting lessons, do theater parts, work on connections and then get lucky. The technology is good, but it's also a hindrance for longevity.
Dustin Diamond
#64. Founded in 1994 by the Anita Borg Institute and growing every year, the Grace Hopper Celebration is bringing needed network connections, skill building, and visibility for women computer scientists who work at all levels of our industry.
Megan Smith
#65. The chakras or force-centers are points of connection at which energy flows from one body of a man to another ... all these wheels are perpetually rotating, and into the hub or open mouth of each a force from a higher world is always flowing.
Charles Webster Leadbeater
#66. And Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her. He really believed, that were it not for the inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger.
Jane Austen
#67. Boundaries are the lines we draw that mark off our autonomy and that of other people, that protect our privacy and that of others. Boundaries allow for intimate connection without dissolving or losing one's sense of self.
Amy Bloom
#68. Yet we can't wait for the undamaged to make our connections for us; we can't wait to speak until we are wholly clear and righteous. There is no purity, and, in our lifetimes, no end to this process.
Adrienne Rich
#69. If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we're going to do important work
Seth Godin
#70. There is a very close connection between being a doctor and a politician. The doctor tries to prevent illness, then tries to treat it if it comes. It's exactly the same as what you try to do as a politician, but with regard to society.
Gro Harlem Brundtland
#71. You will attract everything you require - money, people, connections.. PAY ATTENTION to what's being set in front of you.
Rhonda Byrne
#72. Art can have connections over many centuries or thousands of years.
Wolfgang Laib
#73. Mr. Brocklehurst, who, from his wealth and family connections, could not be overlooked, still retained the post of treasurer; but he was aided in the discharge of his duties by gentlemen of rather more enlarged and sympathising minds:
Charlotte Bronte
#74. Groveling for connection from someone who compares you to Hitler is not good for a person's self-esteem.
Amy Dickinson
#75. But it is clear that the price of labour has no necessary connection with the price of food, since it depends entirely on the supply of labourers compared with the demand.
David Ricardo
#76. For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.
Mahatma Gandhi
#77. My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.
Georges Cuvier
#78. Sometimes the bridges you burn light the way out of your darkness, but the memory of the blaze will be burned into your heart and mind forever.
Shannon L. Alder
#79. There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.
Benjamin Graham
#80. Connections are dangerous in this world you now live in. They will only serve to hurt you and limit you.
Rose Foster
#81. My fans are who I am. You give meaning to my life. You will never know the connection I feel to you.
Lady Gaga
#82. The fewer connections you have to the world, the easier it is to leave.
David Levithan
#83. All roads led to her. She was the nexus of all connections his brain made - the wheel's hub
John Green
#84. I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.
Bill Condon
#85. The connections between people and land are dangerously oversimplified and mainly technological.
Wendell Berry
#86. Neuroscience is exciting. Understanding how thoughts work, how connections are made, how the memory works, how we process information, how information is stored - it's all fascinating.
Lisa Randall
#87. The connection between romantic politics and aesthetics is plain in Schiller's and Novalis's concept of the aesthetic or poetic state.
Frederick C. Beiser
#88. Remember we are all connected by a garland we call love.
Debasish Mridha
#89. When you hug someone you want it to be a masterpiece of connection, the way the button on his coat will leave the imprint of a planet in my cheek when I walk away.
Tess Gallagher
#90. I lay there, stretched out, looking at the one star visible through the tiny window of the room. Only connect. How can you do that when the connections are broken?
Jeanette Winterson
#91. Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they think and feel. If we are to hope for a society of culturally literate people, music must be a vital part of our children's education.
Yo-Yo Ma
#92. We, as designers, have a job with so many possibilities and connections. We are connected to so many different portals, from art to movies to music to design. Fashion is always evolving. Actually, the field is huge. I don't think there is another profession that is so open to so many possibilities.
Miuccia Prada
#93. I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.
Harry Shearer
#94. The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.
Blaise Pascal
#95. In some ways we were more remote than strangers because strangers at least have the possibility of yet unmade connections.
Jean Hegland
#96. Although I was first drawn to math and science by the certainty they promised, today I find the unanswered questions and the unexpected connections at least as attractive.
Lisa Randall
#97. Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence; to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see patterns, relationships, context.
Marilyn Ferguson
#98. If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and ignore the connections is to destroy the tree.
Wendell Berry
#99. He was gazing right into her eyes, as he said this, seemingly imparting something of the impossibility of connections when one is always on the move.
Jojo Moyes
#100. The only emotional connection of relevance is with my dog. My relationship with my dog, it's ridiculous.
Robert Pattinson
