Quotes with contact

  • 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.
  • For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.
  • All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.
  • 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.
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  • Jean Baudrillard Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bill Watterson Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Agnes Repplier 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.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Bill Watterson The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Buddha A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Barbra Streisand A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Charles J. Fillmore All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.
    Charles J. Fillmore
    American linguist and Professor of Linguistics (1929 - 2014)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you - no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump! bump! go the trucks. And that is human contact.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson An enterprise employing more than 1000 people becomes a self-perpetuating empire, creating so much internal work that it no longer needs any contact with the outside world.
    Management Science Journal, October 1960
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Laurence J. Peter Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
    Laurence J. Peter
    Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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  • Cameron Diaz 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
    American actress, author, producer, and model (1972 - )
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  • Bob Dylan Do you take me for such a fool to think I'd make contact with one that tries to hide what he don't know to begin with.
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Anais Nin Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Ken Blanchard For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.
    Ken Blanchard
    American writer
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  • Heinrich Heine Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
    Heinrich Heine
    German poet (1797 - 1856)
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  • Aaron Klug I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • Jamie Oliver I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.
    Jamie Oliver
    British celebrity chef and restaurateur (1975 - )
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  • Anita Hill In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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