#contact

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#amount #come #contact #feel #idea

Ursula, we have to talk…' he said, almost blurting. He couldn’t believe he was in the “we have to talk” position. It was so unnerving. 'I have to ask you… Let’s be each other’s emergency contact numbers.' This was his first concession towards commitment. ↗

— Sharon Weil

#emergency-contact #relationship #we-have-to-talk #relationship

Physical contact is a human necessity. ↗

— David Byrne

#human #necessity #physical

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#contact #contacts #evaluated #four #how

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love. ↗

— Marc Chagall

#am #around #contact #i #i am

Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#because #contact #crowds #cult thing #days

In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#consent #contacts #critical #experiences #help

Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#artist #contact #creates #creation #different

The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#colonies #conquest #contact #dutch #free

As for human contact, I'd lost all appetite for it. Mankind has, as you may have noticed, become very inventive about devising new ways for people to avoid talking to each other and I'd been taking full advantage of the most recent ones. I would always send a text message rather than speak to someone on the phone. Rather than meeting with any of my friends, I would post cheerful, ironically worded status updates on Facebook, to show them all what a busy life I was leading. And presumably people had been enjoying them, because I'd got more than seventy friends on Facebook now, most of them complete strangers. But actual, face-to-face, let's-meet-for-a-coffee-and-catch-up sort of contact? I seemed to have forgotten what that was all about. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#human-contact #business