Quotes About Connection

Free as a bird It's the next best thing to be Free as a bird. Home, home and dry Like a homing bird I'll fly As a bird on wings. Whatever happened to The life that we once knew? Can we really live without each other? Where did we lose the touch That seemed to mean so much? It always made me feel so free.

That love is all, that love is everyone It is knowing, it is knowing

Piensa en mí de vez en cuando, viejo amigo.

For without some sense of the past the future can be only loneliness: amnesia is a solitary affliction.

Si corre un pericolo non da poco quando si sta troppo vicino al fiume di pensieri di un'altra persona, perchè più forte è la corrente e più è facile caderci dentro e venire trascinati lontano da sè stessi.

everyone alive on the planet today is related both to Confucius (551–479 BC) and to Nefertiti (1370–1330 BC). So

In English, the name of every number shares a letter with each neighbor. One shares an O with two, which shares a T with three, which shares an R with four, which shares an F with five, which shares an I with six—and so on indefinitely.

what is the good of a nice house without a decent planet to put it on H.D.Thoreau

Simon Le Bon spotted me having a problem there, and he went, 'Don't you know who he is?' and that was it, I was in. I thought, 'Bloody hell, it takes Duran Duran to get Johnny Rotten into a building!' I liked him as a bloke, and I like a lot of their songs. I like 'Girls On Film', and I can't pretend otherwise.

Horizontal vision allows someone to assimilate and weave together seemingly unconnected bits of information. It allows an investigator to see what others do not see, and to make leaps of connectivity and creativity.

There was no trust, no trust, and without trust all human relations were breaking down.

Zelig-like penchant for being intimately involved in a series of key social and technological movements

They cannot operate efficiently in a vacuum.

I'd much rather watch people do what they do than talk to them across a desk.

A lead is good not because it dances, fires cannons, or whistles like a train but because it is absolute to what follows.

mother like son' is a saying so true, the world will judge largely of mother by you.

How can I live without thee, how forego Thy sweet converse, and love so dearly joined, To live again in these wild woods forlorn? Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no, no, I feel The link of nature draw me: flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.

From his lips/Not words alone pleased her.

Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away.

All readers are good readers, when they have the right book.

A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.

Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.

A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet

Postpone result/solution thinking until later; it's through connection that solutions materialize - empathy before education.