Quotes About Connection

I speak to you today not as an American citizen and not as a Jew, but as a human being

Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious.

Darwin and Wallace had a key trait that is a catalyst for creativity: they had wide-ranging interests and were able to make connections between different disciplines.

Despite a few childhood squabbles, Maja was to become her brother's most intimate soul mate.

There is in all humans, however, a desire and a deeply felt duty to worship a more intimate God

In-person interactions are especially important in the initial brainstorming of new ideas and the forging of personal bonds.

Later that year, a similar note left for her added, "If you don't mind, I'd like to come over this evening to read with you.

My little Johnnie, Because I like you so much, and because you're so far away that I can't give you a little kiss, I'm writing this letter to ask if you like me as much as I do you? Answer me immediately. A thousand kisses from your Dollie—

Causality expresses the pattern which the mind imposes on a sequence of events in order to make their appearance comprehensible.

went out and grabbed Jobs's lawyer, Larry Sonsini, and asked what he thought Jobs wanted. "Beats me," Sonsini said. So Amelio went back behind closed doors with Jobs and gave it one more try. "Steve, what's on your mind? What are you feeling? Please

Tengo semejante fe en el ser humano que creo que hablar con las personas es mucho más importante que esforzarse en averiguar qué es lo que quieren hacer

people should consider themselves citizens of the world.

Una sola alma dirige dos cuerpos —añadió—, y una sola alma los alimenta.

Her work also illustrates, as Leonardo da Vinci's did, that the key to innovation is connecting a curiosity about basic science to the practical work of devising tools that can be applied to our lives—moving discoveries from lab bench to bedside.

We're a telephone family, strung out along the wires, sharing our news in loops and daisy chains. We don't meet face-to-face much, and when we do there's a dematerialized feeling, as though only half of our molecules are present.

I sensed that almost all of them knew they didn't have much more time on earth. Maybe this accounted for their willingness to pitch in with strangers and form a neighborhood.

Mrs. Turner gripped my baby finger. It's amazing how a man can feel sex anywhere on his body.

The reader is always looking for two things in the novel: themselves and transcendence.

Blood may be thicker than water, but family has them both beat.

There was something about his grandfather's death, about men who love their sons . . .

There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and their needs are all the same.

Readin' good books is like meetin' a girl you wanna get to know bettah

I think it's some kind of meeting of energies that causes what we see, and that part of those energies emanate from our lifeforces, our minds.

Making friends has always been hard for me.