Quotes About The Nexus

#1. Unquestionably, New York enjoyed enormous strategic significance. As Adams had already apprised Washington, it was the nexus of the Northern and Southern colonies ... the key to the whole Continent, as it is a Passage to Canada, to the Great Lakes, and to all the Indian Nations.

Joseph J. Ellis

#2. Every time a message seems to grab us, and we think, 'I just might try it,' we are at the nexus of choice and persuasion that is advertising.

Andrew Hacker

#3. I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

Chris Hughes

#4. Brainstorming is the nexus of ideas.

Asa Don Brown

#5. Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture, so I think about designers when I'm making music.

Lady Gaga

#6. I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it's changed so that every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don't know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something.

Carl Hiaasen

#7. Allow me to correct you on two things: number one, the reason John Cena isn't here tonight has nothing to do with you. John Cena isn't here because I destroyed him in our match, this past week, in Pennsylvania. And number two, you're not the leader of the Nexus, I am.

Wade Barrett

#8. The nexus between terrorism and nuclear weapons, or even nuclear material, is obviously a current concern.

Mitchell Reiss

#9. If there is a single person at the nexus of fantasy literature, it is Terri Windling
as editor, as writer, as painter, as muse.

Jane Yolen

#10. What we are seeking is the nexus of all possible worlds and states of mind, which is within us. The source of yin and yang is within you.

Frederick Lenz

#11. Here is the nexus of where work, gender, marriage, and money collide: Dependency.

Rebecca Traister

#12. Businesses can forge a direct connection between their community and their brand when they stop thinking about social media as the backup to the main events. It should be a main event in and of itself, serving as the nexus connecting every other channel by which businesses talk to their customers.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#13. I like the nexus of Bollywood and Hollywood. I'm actually shocked that there isn't more of a meld between our two industries.

Rob Lowe

#14. The Nexus 7 is about the same size as a Moleskine notebook, and it just 'feels' like the right form factor for doing all those things you want to do on a smart phone, but can't quite do in the right way. It's not too big, and not too small - just right.

John Battelle

#15. After the debacle of the party, debugging the code running in his own brain was bliss. His body lay safely in his bed. His mind exulted inside the Nexus development environment, tracing the events that had led to the fault. Here he was in his element.

Ramez Naam

#16. All roads led to her. She was the nexus of all connections his brain made - the wheel's hub

John Green

#17. Emotions are at the nexus of thought and action, of self and other, of person and environment, of biology and culture. Emotion is a term that evokes many connotations, from the way we "feel" to the ways our lives are integrated across time.

Diana Fosha

#18. Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#19. The philosophy commonly called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus.

Ludwig Von Mises

#20. Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.

Thomas Carlyle

#21. Yoga is a science. It is the science of consciousness. Yoga suggests that there is more, other realms, other dimensions, and nirvana - the central nexus where all this comes from.

Frederick Lenz

#22. I mean, that was the code, wasn't it? Single girls and taken guys weren't allowed to be friends. The leash always got in the way.

Carrie Butler

#23. The development of an informal public life depends people finding and enjoying one another outside the cash nexus.

Ray Oldenburg

#24. But in the prevalent discussion of classes, there are illegitimate transitions to the notions of a 'nexus' and of a 'proposition'. The appeal to a class to perform the services of a proper entity is exactly analogous to an appeal to an imaginary terrier to kill a real rat.
Process and Reality

Alfred North Whitehead

#25. Trade is the oldest and most important economic nexus among nations. Indeed, trade along with war ha been central to the evolution of international relations.

Robert Gilpin

#26. Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.

Garry Kasparov

#27. People are the quintessential element in all technology ... Once we recognize the inescapable human nexus of all technology our attitude toward the reliability problem is fundamentally changed.

Garrett Hardin

#28. My hopes for pie died on the sidewalk. There went my grin.

Carrie Butler

#29. I'm not one of those "omg texting kids rite bad" alarmists. I just think there's an interesting nexus where the Internet itself hastened language change when it comes to Internet terms.

Bill Walsh

#30. like a bunch of mimes trapped in an invisible box within which one of the occupants has farted.

Jonny Nexus

#31. The thing that keeps me awake at night is a nexus between terrorism and massive destruction ... the possibility that a terrorist organization could either acquire a ready-made weapon or fabricate something improvised that would have a catastrophic effect for us.

Michele Flournoy

#32. It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#33. She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns-endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus.

Frank Herbert

#34. I'm saying that Nexus may defy human understanding because it is not the product of normal human thought,"Holtzman said. "It is the product of posthuman thought.

Ramez Naam

#35. There wasn't a single day in which the world was created. It's created anew at every moment. The structures of eternity are completely fluid but they are bound together by the mind forming a nexus point so reality comes into being.

Frederick Lenz

#36. Despite every advancement, language remains the defining nexus of our humanity; it is where our knowledge and hope lie. It is the precondition of human tenderness, mightier than the sword but also infinitely more subtle and ultimately more urgent.

Andrew Solomon

#37. Why am I here?" Jake asked. "Why did I forget everything from before?" "Because the man in black has drawn you here," the gunslinger said. "And because of the Tower. The Tower stands at a kind of . . . power-nexus. In time." "I don't understand that!

Stephen King

#38. What we will not wait for is that particular nexus of terrorism, weapons of mass destruction that is extremism, and the technology to come together in a way that is harmful to the United States.

Condoleezza Rice

#39. Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#40. New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself.

Joan Didion

#41. I find the ideas of Catholicism incredibly rich and inspiring. Bogus, unfortunately, but nonetheless inspiring. I think they always provide an interesting nexus through which to look at the way we are.

Glen Duncan