Quotes by Connections I think maybe the figures - that's a good word - the figures in my pictures are stand-ins for my own need to make a connection. Gregory Crewdson connectionsneedsthinking There is a very close connection between being a doctor and a politician. The doctor tries to prevent illness, then tries to treat it if it comes. It's exactly the same as what you try to do as a politician, but with regard to society. Gro Harlem Brundtland doctorsconnectionstrying Superstition is the irrational belief that an object or behavior has the power to influence an outcome, when there's no logical connection between them. Most of us aren't superstitious - but most of us are a 'littlestitious.' Gretchen Rubin superstitionsconnectionsoutcomes The Swedish folk music - I can't hear any connection between my music and fiddle tunes, but I guess since I grew up with that, kind of, Swedish tone or harmony. Gustav Ejstes toneconnectionstunes If Im diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent. Gus Van Sant cancerconnectionscircles Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change. Harriet Lerner connectionsgrowthpolitical I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself. Harry Shearer digitalconnectionsindependent All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things. Heather Donahue schemesconnectionstechnology There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion. Havelock Ellis connectionsatheismreligion When we work on a piece of music, we'll often read the biographies of the composer and learn about what was going on historically and artistically. But I believe that the connection to a piece of music is something much more personal and mysterious than all of these bits of information. Helene Grimaud connectionspiecesbelieve Men tend to be hierarchical, but women are driven to make lateral connections so they can cooperate. Helen Fisher drivenconnectionsmen Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war ends. Henry A. Wallace connectionseffortwar Capitalism cannot be reduced to one or a few features, but it does possess one relationship, central to its existence and operation, that constitutes the essence of inequality and ineradicable instability: the wage-labor-capital connection that dwells at the heart of the system. Herbert Schiller connectionsessenceheart If every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man, then he is free to drop connection with the state-to relinquish its protection, and to refuse paying toward its support. Herbert Spencer connectionssupportmen Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one. Hermann Ebbinghaus connectionsordinarymemories I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. Henry Ford connectionscaryears Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts. Hermann von Helmholtz connectionsmusicart The unexpected connection is more powerful than one that is obvious. Heraclitus connectionsunexpectedpowerful In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the cause, there is no rule or 'law'. It is we alone who have devised cause, sequence, for-each-other, relativity, constraint, number, law, freedom, motive, and purpose; and when we project and mix this symbol world into things as if it existed 'in itself', we act once more as we have always acted- mythologically. Friedrich Nietzsche connectionslawnumbers I am sure that all politicians seek the home connection with the voter. But [Margaret Thatcher] carried it to extremes. Hilary Mantel votersconnectionshome«1415161718192021222324»
