Connecting Quotations

A lot of people think that persuasion is all about values and aligning values. I largely disagree. I think persuasion generally, and political persuasion more particularly, has much more to do with explaining in new ways and connecting dots in new ways than just invoking emotions and values.

So there clearly is a sense in which the Labour Party here, certainly at State level is reaching out and connecting with people and reflecting the aspirations and needs of, you know the mass of ordinary Australians.

I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?

Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.

Connecting with people in person is so important. To look in the eyes of our girls and let them know that you really do support them transcends the impersonal connection of technology.

What was really interesting to me about 'The Telegarden' was this idea of connecting the physical world, the natural world, and the social world through the Internet.

My focus has always been on connecting with consumers in a meaningful way.

I don't really care about audio quality. If people saw some of the ways that I record stuff, they'd see I don't care in that respect. I obviously care about things sounding good, but I think quality exists through other things like emotionally connecting with a lyric or a feeling, or whatever.

The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest.

Being Human clothing was first launched in France, Belgium and Spain, where the brand's philosophy of look good, do good is connecting with people and not just Salman Khan.

When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.

By cultivating rich social networks, by cultivating weak ties, not just close ties but the weak ties, by becoming connectors and by connecting others so that they connect us, we create a world in which these self-amplifying feedback loops feed on top of each other.

I like connecting to places by foot, and I'm interested in experiencing how somewhere like Crieff connects to somewhere like London.

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.

This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.

Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think it's important that parents and teachers get together to do one or two things they can accomplish well - a teaching garden, connecting with farms nearby, weave food into the curriculum.

Einstein's gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connecting gravitational phenomena with the geometry of space; this was an exciting idea.

If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.

Use a personal firewall. Configure it to prevent other computers, networks and sites from connecting to you, and specify which programs are allowed to connect to the net automatically.

I am a big believer that orderliness begets wealth. A pile of bills and statements - whether paid or not - is a sign that someone is clueless about what's coming in and going out. When you consciously open, read, and file away your bills and statements, you are connecting with your money and taking control of your life.

'Vanity Fair' did this grid thing a couple years ago, connecting people who've worked together, and I had the most branches on it or whatever, because I'd worked with so-and-so and so-and-so worked with so-and-so, and I was kind of in the middle.

We know that for every 1 person who get access to the Internet, one new job gets created, and one person gets lifted out of poverty. So in theory, going and connecting everyone on the Internet is a large national and even global priority.

While some doubted that connecting the world was actually important, we were building. While others doubted that this would be sustainable, you were forming lasting connections. We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.

One of the most delightful parts of being a writer is connecting with people via social media. I devote ten minutes out of every writing hour to Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and other sites. I don't use assistants for that. It's me and all of my friends, fans, readers, and colleagues on the crazyboat.

My husband has a gift for reaching out to people in need. I always look over and see him connecting to someone who needs to talk or needs some support.

One of our most difficult realizations was that-in the course of two years-a connecting hub in St. Louis had gone from something we thought we needed to something we could no longer afford.

We're not connecting the dots. That's unfortunate, and I don't think there is any money left to do it.

Shaking's great. Shaking's one of the oldest practices known to man. Standing round a fire and connecting with the earth and moving energy through the body because it's where a lot of our stuff can get trapped. Yeah, I would recommend it.

Shaking's one of the oldest practices known to man. Standing round a fire and connecting with the Earth and moving energy through the body because it's where a lot of our stuff can get trapped.

She makes a gesture toward connecting with other people, but she doesn't go very far.

Simply put, the breadth and depth of the enterprise is greater than the name Yellow Roadway conveys. We now operate in over 70 countries around the world and our services have expanded to encompass logistics as well as global, national and regional transportation. Our new name, YRC Worldwide, better reflects the reality of what our enterprise is today. Our aspirations for the future remain consistent with our core purpose: Making global commerce work by connecting people, places and information.

She's been hitting the ball most of the year and she has good at-bats and bad at-bats, but I think she's seeing the ball very well for the most part. Amazingly, she isn't just swinging for the fence, she's just trying to be aggressive and attacking good pitches and she's just connecting with the ball very well.

When I hear (about a housing bubble) I get the sense that people aren't connecting the dots.

Hans-Olov's work at Volvo demonstrates great insight about brand strength and connecting with customers, ... We'd like to leverage that wisdom across the company. At the same time, we know it's important for him to stay involved with Volvo, one of our Company's greatest success stories.

I'd very much like to explore that, ... I know it's a big idea and it's very ambitious and costly, but I think we need to explore that, particularly a southern route going through Ascension and Livingston and connecting I-12 to I-10.

Cellular technology is emerging as a new high-speed method of connecting to the Internet and we believe over time will become increasingly important for connecting PCs to the Internet.

Building libraries is a very positive thing for the community, and connecting them with schools in a partnership makes sense,

BT's Spine is a key enabler in connecting up the UK National Health Service and lies at the heart of the NHS National Program for IT. The Spine itself relies upon both Sun and SeeBeyond technologies and as these two technologies are brought closer together it can only be good news for Sun customers.

Basically, an evil twin is someone who masquerades as a hot spot. They send out a stronger signal, so instead of connecting to the Internet via the hot spot, your computer connects to the evil twin. He can take all your information directly.

Having this service to Salt Lake City will open a new world of visitor and meeting markets for us, not only in Utah but for all the connecting cities Delta serves. In the past we focused largely north and south for visitors. Now we can look to the east.

What I saw was a connecting problem with a number of the pieces of evidence, which is the level of speculation you have to rely on to make it relevant. That was true with Ratliff you had to speculate he was responsible for it. It was true with their evidence about material on the computer you had to speculate that (Kathleen Peterson) found it and speculate that it led to a fight.

When I am me, I can see me in my space. My desk faces the window and an ocean. The flower on my desk gives off a wonderful aroma. The refrigerator has something in it I feel good about eating. When I am me, I can see me in my day. I am writing. I am talking from a heart of love. I am reviewing my notes, or editing, or walking, or something outside. I am connecting with nature and people.

For men, it's just, 'Give me the facts. For women, it's 'Let's talk about this. Are you worried about this problem?' It's keeping in touch and connecting with people in a richer way.

The purpose of this demonstration is two-fold ... First, we want to provide a solution to travel demands connecting the two sides of our city that will reduce automobile traffic across our bridges. Secondly, we want to prove that such a solution can operate on electric, hybrid-electric, or even hydrogen fuel.

People keep trying to wring more uses out of the old form factors, the old PCs. I'm somewhat skeptical about their ability to really drive into new markets at this point, ... A lot of these ideas have been around for a long time. IBM had a tablet PC, the Word Pad, out several years ago with limited success, and a lot of people are working on better ways of connecting businesses and consumers to business. I think they've demonstrated some really strong uses, but they're more evolutionary than revolutionary, at this point.

Just from him doing the things that he knew how to do, moment to moment -- it's not some mythic figure. It's just a common, everyday man. And I think that's what people are connecting to.

Otherwise we have stranded gas, nowhere to go. So connecting to the pipeline is absolutely critical to raising funding and moving ahead with larger elements of the project.

Manny relied too much on connecting with that left hand of his (Pacquiao). He wanted a homerun.

It definitely seems like we are connecting with people, which is nice, because I've had a lot of music do the same for me. It's not like I don't I understand why we get the reactions we do.

I was told I had just walked into doggy happy hour. It was just the greatest thing. The people who seemed to be connecting best were the people who had dogs between them.

I think if the Patriot Act were in place in the summer of 2001 ... connecting the dots would have been so basic and easy and fundamental.

It feels good. It's youth connecting with their elders.

It is all about connecting the arts and the sciences.

It goes beyond connecting families. It's about preserving our culture, something corporate radio won't address.

It also brings me hope that we can resolve conflicts in our regions by connecting people and fighting against extremism in all of our countries.

I think it's always a mistake when you start connecting a band to a personality. You begin to limit what you're able to do.

The American Hospital Association has declared 2006 as a year of connecting to communities so they can do a better job of community service.

Users with infected workstations connecting to their corporate IT network can spread the virus to the corporate environment.

We have to work on starting hard from the beginning. We've been focused on connecting with the setter on offense. We need to dominate in the middle.

The absence of federal standards could result in isolated islands, and connecting those islands is key.

We just clicked really well as a team. Our connecting and passing went really well and we made smart decisions with the ball. That's what won it for us.

Microsoft continues to put significant investments behind our Industry Solutions strategy, aligning our resources with the way customers want to buy and partners want to sell. Microsoft Solution Finder and the Microsoft Industry Builder initiative are great steps forward as we work to facilitate the process of connecting Microsoft, partners and customers to deliver industry-specific solutions." ()

We will actually energize the project in June. That means we will be connecting it with the rest of the transmission grid.

We had trouble connecting with the ball, ... Smithfield-Selma put on a very good defense against us.

We had trouble connecting with the ball. Smithfield-Selma put on a very good defense against us.

The fact that I am not Jewish by religion does not prevent me from connecting to the Jewish nation's spirituality.

We've seen a terrific initial response. Instead of dividing their time up between two or more online services or physically meeting with multiple financial professionals, consumers are now using QuoteFinancial.com to compare all of the competitive insurance and loan quotes they need in minutes. It's a desirable solution that saves them time and effort while connecting them to agents and brokers from just one trusted network. And our participating agents and lenders are thrilled to have instant access to this pool of highly interested prospects.

We've seen a tremendous response to Desperate Housewives products made available to date, so extending the franchise into the world of fragrance makes perfect sense. Given Coty's outstanding track record in the fragrance market, the Desperate Housewives scent is guaranteed to be a hit with women everywhere, connecting them in a very personal way to this popular series.

The real danger is cherry-picking the data to support a preconceived idea and then connecting the dots to form a faulty picture. This is what happened in Iraq.

Everyone's connected but no one is connecting.

At great expense, we have built a vast system of inter-connecting stupidities.

We are connecting them to the people who say they have an interest in that product. It means there is a way to find a population you want to advertise to and serve them with relevant information on a consistent basis.

We recognize that there are devices people already own that need to be connected, as well as connecting with future devices.

We had another strong record-breaking quarter in terms of both revenues and profits. We're very, very pleased, ... This is traditionally a slow season for Internet properties so this momentum shows that, at least from my perspective, we are effectively connecting with our users and our customers.

We are making sure our counselors are connecting with our students about college, ... Sometimes students think they don't have enough money to attend college, and we have spent time meeting with them, letting them know they can.

Her lips tarried at mine. Baiting each other with the warmth of our breath, barely grazing, detouring, then connecting.

There are a lot of mathematical questions that come up when you're driving around, and you're leaving one cell site and connecting to another.

The real value is connecting what kids do in math and science to a bigger world.

We have been getting the opportunities, but we haven't been connecting on them or pulling it out and settling for jumpers. We connected on a few and hopefully that will continue when we play Elyria.

We'll see, in years to come, that our Challenge will be made available in all forms of wireless communications. You can make your picks right now on your telephone. You can get updates on how you're doing on the telephone, and we'll keep going to where fans are going to consume information. We also look forward to connecting fans to the Challenge via their cable providers and game consoles. Our sponsors see the need to be visible here and that's where we're going to take them. We have a firm lock on the 18 to 34 men's demographic. They know that, and it's a key demographic for them to reach.

Whether we're talking about books, music or film, it's all about storytelling. You get a powerful new way of connecting with people once you hear their stories.

There is no longer any excuse for not adopting corporate IM. But businesses should establish policies for connecting with external parties, to ensure public IM services are used for real business purposes.

Yemen is definitely the concern. It's been a haven for terrorist activity. You don't want to jump to conclusions. It's just in this day and age of connecting the dots, there's a few dots that need to be connected here.

United is a better company today for competing with Frontier in Denver, and it'll be the same with Southwest, ... If they fly you from Denver to every single place they fly, it would be 60 percent of the coverage United offers today, with no connecting flights.

The point of doing the lounges is another way of connecting with our readers and for readers to connect with the Maxim brand,

We started connecting with some of our passes. It's tough on this field because it's smaller, but we made the passes we needed to and made the most of our chances.

We've already set aside money for recruiting. We've been talking to principals for several years about going to job fairs and connecting with the colleges. Not all teachers will be brand new; we want to lure experienced ones from the other districts. For that, we have, for the last few years, focused on getting our teachers' salary schedule competitive.

Dr. Spain and Cardiology of Tulsa are helping lead the way to a more connected healthcare community. By informing and connecting physicians through the use of electronic medical records, they are able to provide a more efficient and patient-friendly healthcare experience.

Videogames based on golf have often been viewed as, to mangle a phrase, a good walk through a virtual world spoiled. Connecting with your virtual golfers has often been as hard for gamers as understanding the sport itself.

Every festival is new, and everyone has gotten better. We've been able to do a better job of connecting students with wonderful authors from all over.

I used to have a monthly cookery column, and am a big cook, so that whole sense of connecting what one does with food to one's cultural identity has always been fascinating to me.

I've been lucky to play with some of my true heroes, but so has everyone in the band. I think you learn about not just singing or playing great, but connecting with audiences. That's one thing that all those folks do with amazing ability. Hopefully, we've been able to absorb some of that stuff.

Transfer of title has been completed, the Island corridor is now Island-owned and it's connecting communities.

The teen is pretty recession proof and always likes to spend during the holiday season. The Gap unfortunately is still having trouble connecting with the customer.

There are privacy and message-clutter issues. As an industry, we have to self-police here, and we have to be careful and mindful of how we are connecting with customers because we run the risk of upsetting people.

What are people connecting with? It could be them,

To realize President Obama's vision of opportunity for all, it's all about making the right match. The way we do that is through job-driven training - connecting ready-to-work Americans with ready to be-filled jobs. It helps more people secure a foothold in the middle class and helps businesses to profit and grow.

To see the joy of an audience watching the work and connecting to the work and understanding something about our connectedness to each other as human beings, that's immensely gratifying.

The other neat thing about this is that we're connecting Mojave Spaceport to California City.

We like to have a variety of aircraft serving different types of markets. Continental Connection affiliates increase the number of passengers connecting to mainline Continental service at airports like Tampa.