Connect Quotes
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I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and ta-da! the World Wide Web.
tim berners-lee— Answers for Young People
The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people.
tim berners-lee— Tim Berners-Lee Speech before Knight Foundation, (14 September 2008)
One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq with the war on terror.
george w. bush— September 7, 2006 interview with Katie Couric [YouTube]
What's garbage today is gold years later... the trick is to catalog it, retrieve it, and connect the dots.
Heidi Beirich— Director of Intelligence Project, Southern Poverty Law Center, U.S. News & World Report, September 6, 1999.
Without contemplating last and late the true nature of poetry. The drive to connect. The dream of a common language.
— 1978 The Dream of a Common Language,'Origins and History of Consciousness'.
...Instead of taking the 'I'm cool, I hope you adore me' path (with my music), I chose the path of how to connect. I think that's the reason a lot of people feel a deeper connection with our band than other bands, and I also feel that's why people polarize on us. If you don't get it, it seems preposterous; if you do get it, it's really heavy -- it has a weight to it.
billy corgan— "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Success." LIVE! Magazine. August 1996.
I actually didn't want to have control of the writing on my first album. To write, you have to have time to connect with yourself. I don't have that time right now, because I'm so busy.
hilary duff— Binelli, Mark. "Teenager of the Year". Rolling Stone. August 27 2003. Retrieved October 25 2006.
— On Metamorphosis (2003).
"Everybody is born good and everybody has got the same size soul. We're here to connect with that."
james hetfield— at St Quentin during the videoshoot for St Anger
Musically I try to connect a common bridge between such exhilarating feelings as performing at the Acropolis, to the emotions each and every one of us feel everyday. In the end, a good melody will always stand the test of time.
bradley joseph— Indie Journal Interview
Valued achievements connect to people at a deeper level—and a deeper level can change behavior that is generally very difficult to change.
john kotter— Step 6, p. 130
Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.
paul muldoon— Interviewed in Thumbscrew, Spring 1996. [1]
If you haven’t already noticed, all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people.In a way, that is the opposite of the American Dream: to get so rich you can rise above the rabble, all those people on the freeway or, worse, the bus.
chuck palahniuk— Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories (2004)
Five years have passed; five summers, with the length Of five long winters! and again I hear These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs With a sweet inland murmur. —Once again Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs, Which on a wild secluded scene impress Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect The landscape with the quiet of the sky.
william wordsworth— Stanza 1.
Truly the eye was… …made to cast a lineament, a conducting wire between the most heterogeneous things. Such a wire, of maximum ductility, should allow us to understand, in a minimum of time, the relationship which connect, without possible discharge of continuity, innumerable physical and mental structures… …the key (of the mental prison, ed.) lies in a free unlimited pay of analogies… …one can admire today a canvas signed by Gorky , “The liver is the Cock’s Comb”, which should be considered the great open door to the analogy world.
andré breton— Introduction to the exhibition of Gorky’s first show', Julien Levy Gallery’, March 1945; as quoted in “Arshile Gorky, – Goats on the roof”, ed. by Matthew Spender, Ridinghouse, London, 2009, p. 258
I now propose briefly to... set forth, in a form intelligible to those who possess no special acquaintance with anatomical science, the chief facts upon which all conclusions respecting the nature and the extent of the bonds which connect man with the brute world must be based: I shall then indicate the one immediate conclusion which, in my judgment, is justified by those facts, and I shall finally discuss the bearing of that conclusion upon the hypotheses which have been entertained respecting the Origin of Man.
thomas henry huxley— Ch.2, p.74
When you're ready to make the change and you don't feel that you have the strength, know that you are connected with the same strength that moves the world; you just have to stop turning your back on it and connect with it.
steve maraboli— p. 83 (Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010))
When you truly embrace your human impermanence you connect with the power you have, and influence you have, over the time you have.
steve maraboli— p. 123 (Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010))
There is not one of you whose actions do not operate on the actions of others operate, we mean, in the way of example. He would be insignificant who could only destroy his own soul; but you are all, alas! of importance enough to help also to destroy the souls of others. ...Ye cannot live for yourselves; a thousand fibres connect you with your fellow-men, and along those fibres, as along sympathetic threads, run your actions as causes, and return to you as effects.
henry melvill— "Partaking in Other Men's Sins", an address at St. Margaret's Church, Lothbury, England (12 June 1855), printed in Golden Lectures (1855); eventually part of this statement become paraphrased in several slight variations, and has usually been misattributed to Herman Melville, i.e.: "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and along these fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects".
Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear. Now this is a simple thing that anybody who has ever argued or quarreled knows perfectly well is a simple thing, only when they read it they do not understand it because they do not see that understanding and believing are not the same thing.
Gertrude Stein— Ch. 4 (Afterword of a later edition)
When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.
Anthony Trollope— Ch. 43 (Phineas Redux (1874))
There is not one of you whose actions do not operate on the actions of others operate, we mean, in the way of example. He would be insignificant who could only destroy his own soul; but you are all, alas! of importance enough to help also to destroy the souls of others. ...Ye cannot live for yourselves; a thousand fibres connect you with your fellow-men, and along those fibres, as along sympathetic threads, run your actions as causes, and return to you as effects.
— "Partaking in Other Men's Sins", an address at St. Margaret's Church, Lothbury, England (12 June 1855), printed in Golden Lectures (1855); eventually part of this statement become paraphrased in several slight variations, and has usually been misattributed to Herman Melville, i.e.: "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and along these fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects".
Our early family relationships are extremely powerful. According to attachment theory (a fancy term for how we connect with other people), these relationships set the tone for the rest of our lives.
— p. 14 (Break Through: When to Give In, How to Push Back…The Moment That Changes Everything with Pat Springle (Worthy))
In criminal cases you always begin by proving the corpus delicti, and then connect the prisoner with it.
— Pollock, C.B., Queen v. Bernard (1858), 8 St. Tr. (N. S.) 922.
Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear.
Gertrude Stein— Gertrude Stein, Everybody's Autobiography (1937), chapter 4.
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. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
steve jobs— Steve Jobs, Address at Stanford University (12 June, 2005)
The book, as far as I am aware, is the first attempt to connect the natural sciences into a history of creation.
— Robert Chambers, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844)
Ever since I became a Muslim … I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes, concepts or sayings which I do not and would never wilfully subscribe to.
— Yusuf Islam, as quoted in The Guardian (29 March 2005)
