#contact

Inspiration is God making contact with itself. ↗

— Ram Dass

#god #inspiration #itself #making

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal. ↗

— David Brin

#been #both #both sides #contact #encounter

When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides? ↗

— Jerry Brown

#am #buying #coming #consumer #contact

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#always #anything #avoid #classify #contact

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life #lost #reality #simplicity

I can't remember a major league game where I could make eye contact with my dad. I kept wondering if he was going to yell at me for hanging a pitch or something. ↗

— David Cone

#could #dad #eye #eye contact #game

Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment can often prevent them from openly discussing health concerns with their physicians. ↗

— Michael Crapo

#any #care #concerns #conditions #contact

I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights. ↗

— Joseph Force Crater

#aviation #book #caribbean #contacts #flights

While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects. ↗

— Jerome Isaac Friedman

#classroom #contact #direct #direct contact #get

As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet. ↗

— John Keble

#contact #fire #kindled #mind #poet