Dots Quotations

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.

Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.

Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.

I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.

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.

Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.

Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do.

It is not history, theology or mythology that interest me. It is the fact that history, theology or mythology could have alternative interpretations or explanations. I try to connect the dots between the past and the present.

Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.

With respect to sticking accelerator pedals, we failed to connect the dots between problems in Europe and problems in the United States because the European situation related primarily to right-hand-drive vehicles. Toyota will increase its outreach to government agencies charged with protecting the safety of motorists and passengers.

And Seattle isn't really crazy anymore. It's a big dot-com city.

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

Today, in 2011, if you go and buy a color laser printer from any major laser printer manufacturer and print a page, that page will end up having slight yellow dots printed on every single page in a pattern which makes the page unique to you and to your printer. This is happening to us today. And nobody seems to be making a fuss about it.

It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.

But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.

You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.

Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers.

I'm a character actor and I get lost in these characters, so I think it's only recently that people have begun to connect dots and go, 'Oh, that's the same person that did this, this, this, this and this!' which I take as a compliment. One time somebody called me an illusionist, and that was the nicest thing anyone has ever said.

Suppose I put polka dots all over my body and then cover my background completely with polka dots. The polka dots on my body, merging with those in the background, create an optically strange scene.

I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.

I used to enjoy using dots where they would be least expected, not at the end of a sentence but in the middle, creating the effect... of a skipped beat. It seemed to me the mind reacted - first!... in dots, dashes, and exclamation points, then rationalized, drew up a brief, with periods.

Philosophically, the universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everything else is different? No, we've got seven other planets. The sun? No, the sun is one of those dots in the night sky. The Milky Way? No, it's one of a hundred billion galaxies. And the universe - maybe it's countless other universes.

I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.

So many dot-com companies were formulated on air.

I was surprised when a white glow covered the table. The quantum dots were supposed to emit blue light, but instead they were giving off a beautiful white glow.

One snap shot of me walking down the street from a camera above, sure that's not really an invasion of privacy, but when you're able to connect the dots of my entire routine throughout the day, that's another story. Our laws haven't kept up with that, and yet technology is creating those problems for us.

It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.

I have never done Cult TV before, the convention was good. It gives the fans a chance to meet the celebrities. Connect with the guy that used to be a bunch of coloured dots on your TV screen.

getting people to sit in the back office and connect dots has not been their strong suit. Now they know they have to do it. The question is, Will they?

What we will be doing at NATO is trying to help people connect the dots before something happens rather than afterwards.

I love all dots. I am married to many of them. I want all dots to be happy. Dots are my brothers. I am a dot myself.

I saw blood drops on Ronald's coat ... there were red dots everywhere,

I saw blood drops on Ronald's coat ... there were red dots everywhere. Loudly I asked, 'What happened?' He signaled me to be quiet, then pointed downstairs to his neighbors.

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.

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.

The reality is that if a pandemic hits, it's not just a health emergency. It's the big one. It requires big thinking to make sure all those dots are connected. Katrina was a wake-up call.

There are a lot of dots to connect. This is a first report.

This stage of the penalty phase was probably harder for the government, but that was before he took the stand and connected all the dots for the jury.

I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his or her dice.

What am I thankful for? MY POLKA DOTS!!

Dream big. Start small and then connect the dots

Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.

We can only connect the dots we collect, which makes everything you write about you... your connections are the thread that you weave into the cloth that becomes the story that only you can tell.

The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist

I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.

A kiss, when all is said, what is it? An oath that's given closer than before; A promise more precise; the sealing of Confessions that till then were barely breathed; A rosy dot placed on the i in loving.

A kiss is a rosy dot placed on the "i" in loving.

The late 90s were crazy science-fictional if you were inside the superheated steam bubble of the dot-com 1.0 industry.

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.

When you think of Tony, you think back to all that he's had to overcome in terms of injuries. What he's meant our team this year has really hard to calculate; he's been invaluable to us. Only now that we've seen how brilliant he has been you can't help but wonder what he could have meant to our team last year. In retrospect, we can now connect the dots and see what Julius was talking about when he could only practice with us that year.

Early this morning I was just sleeping in bed and going over and over and it just doesn't seem real. And just punching that thing, I felt its rubbery feeling of the shark. And I could see the little black dots on its nose just really up close. It was just crazy.

Be very forceful in communicating whether you want to be notified if there is a change of condition and they'll be transporting your relative somewhere, whether it's day or night. Advance directives are always helpful, but I've seen patients with these and sometimes the dots don't get connected.

What's central about numbers for us as adults is that we can apply a number like 7 to a diverse number of things. We can say that there are seven dots but also that a horn honks seven times. Although these are different in their sensory qualities, the numbers are the same.

The scattered red dots on the map are vernal pools, which are home to salamanders, amphibians, and other important resources.

In between those early ones and what I'm doing now, there were all kinds of pieces in which I tried to build works incrementally and let the increments show, so I sprayed dots or I used my finger prints or used chunks of pulp paper, or any one of a number of ways to build an image out of discrete individual units.

The integration of sales and marketing has the potential to affect the account executive the most. Instead of entering information many times over, you're leveraging information already acquired by marketing, but companies are still trying to connect the dots and there is still of lot of work to be done with this business process.

That's a popular misconception. It's not the dollar amount spent, but the time spent in making sure every little detail relates to the message. Failure to connect the dots is a death sentence for meeting planners.

They are not just dots on a map. There are families behind those dots.

It has big, big dots reminiscent of the '50s, and the prints are really fun. They evoke again the mood and the turquoise and yellow colors of Capri.

If you're trying to link up the dots . . . there's a bunch of dots missing in between,

The inability of some critics to connect the dots doesn't make pointillism pointless

Life is simply a connect-the dots game, and all the dots have already been identified and organized by somebody else. All you have to do is follow the blueprint, use the system, or work the program that they provide.

They are unfiltered dots of information about perceived threats. An analyst will look at that information. And what we are trying to do is connect the dots before the next major attack.

I don't think Seurat would have been aware of the dots - he would have been aware of what he was trying to do. The dots were an instrument.

As an actor and an audience member, it's important to remember that the future will further define the meaning of the present with a show like 'Once Upon A Time.' Sometimes we're just collecting dots, and other times we're connecting them, but you know that the dots that are collected will eventually get connected.

All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed.

The indium arsenide self-organizes into the dots, like raindrops on a car bonnet. We found that the key was producing the dots with a high degree of symmetry, and the physics of the materials does that for us.

Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot.

The dot that became a speck that became a blob that became a figure that became a boy

Everyone is really trying a whole host of a lot of things to try to do this. It's a problem that a lot of DOTs are working on.

They didn't have Internet. They didn't have e-mail blasts. Martin didn't have a BlackBerry. But they still got thousands of people out to a place. The dots have to be connected.

Those two dots don't connect. The situation with Tom Cruise is over. She is going on with her life, and I'm sure he's going on with his.

They're not connecting the dots between tuition increases and voting. So it's important to connect these dots to the issues.

I don't think anyone even the drafters (of the legislation) or folks at the State House looked at the fact this change eliminated the (toll-evasion) fine. I don't think the dots ever got connected.

In one sentence, I'd describe myself as indescribable. But, I wouldn't end it with a period. I'd end it with three dots

The dot was introduced as a symbol for multiplication by Leibniz. On July 29, 1698, he wrote in a letter to Johann Bernoulli: "I do not like X as a symbol for multiplication, as it is easily confounded with x...

I don't control what people put on dot-com or anything else. So I'm just telling you there's no significance, in my opinion, about this, about me, about any interest that I have in anything other than being the coach here.

Someone once told me that the finer points of devotion are about the size of a pinhole, and there are millions of them. And if you could connect each dot, then you’ve got a diagram of what you think you thought you knew, and if you’re willing to admit that you know nothing…you have the blueprint for a breakthrough.

Who are they to give stars or dots? They're Wemmicks just like you." Eli to Punchinello (p. 25)

Stefan: "Indian with a dot, not a feather.

I was an infinitely hot and dense dot.

The markets have probably been too quick to connect the dots from the current slew of good data straight to a Fed rate hike,

What we're going to do is try to get TSA out of the human resources and personnel business and into the security business to connect the dots.

Somebody can paint with a fine brush like Monet and do millions of little dots or somebody can splatter it up there like Kandinsky or Jackson Pollock and go "Yep, that's art." That's okay.

There is never a wrong time for a polka dot.

I don't think there is ever a wrong time for a polka dot.

If you can connect all the dots between what you see today and where you want to go, then it's probably not ambitious enough or aspirational enough.

Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.

Everything starts from a dot.

My life is a dot lost among thousands of other dots.

I am just another dot in the world

Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots we become part of the unity of our environments.

Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.

The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.