Connections Quotes - page 10

I want to use my connections with coaches, players, celebrities, whomever, and if I can take that friendship and use it to help someone else, I'm going to take advantage of that. I'm not going to apologize for that. (Tim Tebow)
Neuroscientists talk a lot about brain circuits. In fact, the word 'circuit' is probably misleading. We do not know where most circuits begin and end. And unlike an electrical circuit, brain connections are heavily reciprocal and recursive, so that a direction of information flow can be inferred but sometimes not proven. View quote
Thomas R. Insel
China is a government-oriented economy. No one can say he can run his business entirely without government connections. Anybody who says that he or she can do things alone... is a hypocrite. View quote
Wang Jianlin
Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a vehicle for social connections, discussions and ideas. View quote
Youssou N'Dour
In a building with apartments, of course, you want to make connections. Life is easier that way. There's salt if you don't have salt; you can knock at someone's door, like in any city. But you know, you can hear the others, and you want to sleep, you get annoyed. View quote
Juliette Binoche
That's the beauty of the Internet is that we're no longer tied to our communities by physical connections. View quote
Edward Snowden
You build up relationships like that one after another and before you know it you have meaning. The more connections, the deeper the meaning. Doesn't matter if it's eel, or rice bowls, or grilled fish, whatever. Get it? View quote
Haruki Murakami
The brain likes to be efficient and so even as its strengthening the pathways you're exercising, it's pulling - it's weakening the connections in other ways between the cells that supported old ways of thinking or working or behaving, or whatever that you're not exercising so much. View quote
Nicholas G. Carr
At the risk of sounding pedestrian, I'll be completely honest: the first thing I do in the morning is check Google News, partially because it seems sort of random and unbiased and partially because I tend to stay in hotels that don't necessarily have the fastest Internet connections. View quote
Moby
Green business is not about tie-dyed T-shirts. It's about transforming the industrial system itself into one that looks at all the connections. View quote
Paul Hawken
I think that the best way to gain knowledge is through gaining experience and through connections. (Vangelis)
Remember a networked learning machine's most basic rule: strengthen the connections to those who succeed, weaken them to those who fail. View quote
Howard Bloom
Let's break free from artificial relationships with unfeeling, uncaring, unloving institutions that cannot contain the unpredictable wind of God's Spirit, and focus instead on building soulish connections with real people filled with the breath of God. View quote
Skye Jethani
The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life. View quote
Charles Eames
They have never felt pain ... We don't have their connections, but we're ready to die. View quote
Nattawut Saikua
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. View quote
Georges Cuvier
Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can. View quote
Annie Dillard
There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition. View quote
Stephen Hawking
If you don't know the right people or have the right connections, you may never be discovered. With 'Opening Act,' we are democratizing a notoriously impossible process, pulling back the curtains on a consistently fascinating industry, and affording aspiring artists the chance of a lifetime. View quote
Nigel Lythgoe
I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political. (Alan Dershowitz)
The third Universe comprises everything whose being consists in active power to establish connections between different objects, especially between objects in different Universes. Such is everything which is essentially a Sign. View quote
Charles Sanders Peirce
All the monads except as serve as intermediaries for the connections have distinctive designations. View quote
Charles Sanders Peirce
But nerve connections were blocked and infiltrated and atrophied so the brain couldn't give orders any more. It was trapped in the skull, sealed off. For a while you could see the silent, helpless suffering of the brain behind the eyes, then finally the brain must have died, because the eyes went out, and there was no more feeling in them than a crab's eyes on the end of a stalk. View quote
William S. Burroughs
People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections. View quote
Khaled Hosseini