Contact Quotes
I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.
We are apt to think that our ideas are the creation of our own wisdom but the truth is that they are the result of the experience through outside contact.
The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour, the more we love them, for we see how great is their care of the young.
No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.
We take spiritual initiation when we become conscious of the Divine within us, and thereby contact the Divine without us.
I call animals "guardians of Being," especially animals that live with humans. Because, for many humans, it's through their contact with animals they get in touch with that level of being.
When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.
Our studies have shown that all cases of typhoid of this type have arisen by contact, that is, carried directly from one person to another. There was no trace of a connection to drinking water.
This moment! - this here-now - is forgotten when you start thinking in terms of achieving something. When the achieving mind arises, you lose contact with the paradise you are in.
We Christians sometimes think we need a plan for evangelism. I don't think Jesus had an evangelism plan. I think He just interacted with the people He came into contact with.
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.
Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.
I had a wonderful contact, especially with Uncle Bert who was an angel and led the whole group over to my side of a steep ravine I could not cross to get over to them
When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end.
Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
What kinds of things and people might learners want to be in contact with in order to learn?
I miss the woods. Sometimes I go on weekend trips and just wander the woods, barefoot and reminiscing, and I put my contact lenses in. Is that weird?
The human soul, provided it is pure and strong enough, can contact the unseen in waking life as well as in dreams: all that is required is withdrawal of the soul from the tumult of sensory life.
The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.
By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses.
One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.
Remember that the only God man comes in contact with is his own God, called Spirit, Soul and Mind, or Consciousness, and these three are one.
My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is.
I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.
It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.
From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth.
Faith in action is love, and love in action is service. By transforming that faith into living acts of love, we put ourselves in contact with God Himself, with Jesus our Lord.
Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.
We are all salesmen every day of our lives. We are selling our ideas, our plans, our enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact.
Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.
The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.
I was shy, but it came out in a big personality. My turning point was when I let my hair go naturally and I got contact lenses. I am really blind, by the way. I have these big eyes that don’t work!
The positions I played, every play, I was making contact, not like that Deion Sanders. He couldn't tackle my wife. He's back there dancing out there instead of hitting.
But then you make eye contact with someone across the room and it clicks and you’re right there in love again.
The only thing that really teaches one what life's about the joy of understanding, the joy of coming in contact with what life really signifies - is suffering, affliction.
When dogs and humans make eye contact, that actually releases what's known as the love hormone, oxytocin, in both the dog and the human.
