#connections

All those trucks and barges that carry our goods to port are vital connections to the only force which can balance our trade deficit: export. We must keep doing what we do best if we are going to get America out of the red. ↗

— Jo Ann Emerson

#balance #best #carry #connections #deficit

We might not know we are seeking people who best enrich our lives, but somehow on a deep subconscious level we absolutely are. Whether the bond is temporary or permanent, whether it succeeds or fails, fate is simply a configuration of choices that combine with others to shape the relationships that surround us. We cannot choose our family, but we can choose our friends, and we sometimes, before we even meet them. ↗

— Simon Pegg

#fate #friendships #life #family

If only you could really use a fail-proof system to know who was worth keeping and who needed to be thrown away. It would make it so much easier to move through the world, picking and choosing what connections to make, or whether to make any at all. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#personal-relationships #connection

This connection had the potential to be too special to ruin it with the hurt of misfired romantic intentions. And while half of me wanted to tear his shirt off with my teeth, I also wanted him to be in my life for the duration. I didn't want him to be the one I avoided because he'd hurt me. If I was just his friend, then I would still be blessed. If it meant swallowing my pride and being his shoulder when he got hurt, or being the one he ranted at when he was angry, I was prepared to do it with dignity. ↗

— Jessica Thompson

#friendship #love #friendship

Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#cherish #connections #friends #friends and family #human

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#between #both #connections #folk #i

The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#because #brain #coarse #connections #dog

The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want. ↗

— Seth Godin

#connections #future #having #knowledge #publishing

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world. ↗

— Vincent Canby

#between #connections #curiosity #else #exploits

It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#art #autonomy #away #connections #notion