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We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life. -- Paulo Coelho
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. -- Laurence J. Peter
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. -- Carl Jung
Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us. -- Regina Brett
No Plan Survives First Contact With Customers -- Steve Blank
Contact with reality is not an all-or-nothing condition. -- Alexander Lowen
Contact with the customer is what business is all about. -- Jay Leno
Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart. -- Nicolas Chamfort
I remember watching Jodie Foster in Contact, and that kind of opened my eyes. -- Joel Gretsch
Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them. -- Brennan Manning
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it. -- Anais Nin
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it. -- Irwin Shaw
All men think that they're nice guys. Some of them are not. Contact me for a list of names. -- Rita Rudner
Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed. -- James F. Cooper
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson
Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment. -- Ilka Chase
Contact lenses make me miserable, as soon as I put them in. That's what creates the pouting and brooding character. -- Robert Pattinson
Radiate an energy of serenity and peace so that you have an uplifting effect on those you come into contact with. -- Wayne Dyer
What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language. -- Miuccia Prada
Botanists have a tradition of never revealing the exact location of a rare plant. Contact between humans and rare plants is generally risky for the plants. -- Richard Preston
Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources. -- Albert Einstein
On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information. -- Kate Adie
Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can. -- Martha Beck
The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life. -- Rachel Carson
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
Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. -- Deepak Chopra
Life is so great in its opportunities and possibilities, that you should rise confidently above the inevitable trifles incident to daily contact with the world. Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient. . . . Ignore the inconsequential. -- Grenville Kleiser
Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as he likes. -- Oswald Chambers
What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment... -- Nikola Tesla
Vacation time offers the unique opportunity to pause before the thought-provoking spectacles of nature, a wonderful "book" within reach of everyone, adults and children. In contact with nature, a person rediscovers his correct dimension, rediscovers himself as a creature, small but at the same time unique, with a "capacity for God" because interiorly he is open to the Infinite. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it is in the present and only in the present that you live. There is no other reality than present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly. -- Alan Watts
No battle plan survives contact with the enemy. -- Colin Powell
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe. -- Loretta Young
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love. -- Marc Chagall
You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with. -- Edward Norton
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic. -- Winston Churchill
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. -- Jackson Pollock
When I started on 'Saturday Night Live,' I had the choice of wearing contact lenses, which I had never worn before, or glasses, in order to be able to read the cue cards. -- Tina Fey
When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan. -- Tadao Ando
What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people. -- Philip Zimbardo
I think that's it's really important to have good friends. Nowadays, you can text 24 hours a day and be in constant contact, but every once in a while, it's nice to just get out with your girlfriends and have fun. -- Amanda Schull
I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful. -- Cat Stevens
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day. -- Orison Swett Marden
In the police force, two, three, five traitors are detected who are really working for someone else. When we cleanse the police of them, the problem will be simplified a lot. Terrorists will have no one to contact - they will be left without informers. -- Akhmad Kadyrov
The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes them more real and thinkable. -- Raymond Moody
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery. -- Chinua Achebe
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
If we ever established contact with intelligent life on another world, there would be barriers to communication. First, they would be many light years away, so signals would take many years to reach them: there would be no scope for quick repartee. There might be an IQ gap. -- Martin Rees
Remember the movie 'The Matrix,' where virtual information popped up to help inform physical day-to-day reality? Such things won't always be the stuff of Hollywood. If the Internet is accessible via contact lenses, biographies will appear next to the faces of the people we talk to, and we will see subtitles if they speak a foreign language. -- Michio Kaku
There is a saying, 'Eyes are the windows to the soul.' It means, mostly, people can see through someone else by eye contact in seven seconds. I have a habit that if I meet someone I don't know, I'd like to look at her or his eyes on purpose. When my eyes lay on them, I can immediately see their true color. -- Peng Liyuan
Calculus destroys self-esteem on contact. -- James Lileks
Politics is a contact sport. -- Steve Chabot
I find human contact repulsive. -- Larry David
To avoid eye contact, kiss. -- Mason Cooley
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Physical contact is a human necessity. -- David Byrne
People simply don't make eye contact anymore. -- Eric Kripke
Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport. -- Michael Nutter
Everybody knows politics is a contact sport. -- Barack Obama
Inspiration is God making contact with itself. -- Ram Dass
No plan survives contact with the enemy. -- Tommy Franks
No plan survives contact with the enemy -- Erwin Rommel
Life blackens at the contact of truth. -- Paul Valery
You know what comes after looking... physical contact. -- K.R. Caldwell
Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them. -- Bill Vaughan
Hitler could not tolerate too much social contact. -- Richard Overy
Romance is a different word than sexual contact. -- Bill Cosby
Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact. -- Richard Louv
Don't avoid eye contact and don't be late -- Jack Dorsey
DETOX your mind, body, AND your contact list. -- SupaNova Slom
A bit of body contact never hurt anyone. -- Tony Abbott
Through our soul is our contact with heaven. -- Sholem Asch
Wrestling is only gay when you make eye contact. -- Felipe Esparza
A tree is our most intimate contact with nature. -- George Nakashima
Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact. -- Bruce Lee
Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. -- Duffy Daugherty
No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy -- Carl von Clausewitz
Technique is everything and we play a contact sport. -- Troy Vincent
No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy. -- Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
Football is not a contact sport. Its a collision sport -- Duffy Daugherty
It's very important for Taiwan to maintain its international contact. -- Ma Ying-jeou
Never make eye contact with anyone while eating a banana -- Harry Styles
The damage of teaching: the constant contact with the undeveloped. -- Theodore Roethke
I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact. -- Doris Lessing
It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature. -- Albert Hofmann
When children come into contact with nature, they reveal their strength. -- Maria Montessori
People to people contact is essential for Nations to come closer. -- Narendra Modi
Enthusiasm brushes off upon those with whom you come in contact. -- John Wooden
Ballroom dancing is a contact sport. Rugby is a collision sport. -- Heyneke Meyer
He was like a child with haemophilia: every contact drew blood. -- Graham Greene
Youth lives in an atmosphere of energy waiting to make contact. -- Hallie Flanagan
Eye contact is way more intimate than words will ever be. -- Faraaz Kazi
I contact Allah the Holy the Merciful on a daily basis. -- Al-Saadi Gaddafi
When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The best means of preaching the gospel is by personal contact. -- David O. McKay
A firm hand is one which holds the horse in full contact. -- Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere
I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact. -- Gary Numan
Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky. -- Douglas Coupland
The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with. -- Juvenal
If you must eat a banana in public, never make eye contact. -- Darynda Jones
Men don't respond to words. What they respond to is "no contact". -- Sherry Argov
I don't have much contact at all with other black metal bands. -- Mick Barr
A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. -- Barbra Streisand
You have to make every group you come in contact with better. -- Will Smith
In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind. -- Liam Neeson
Greet what arrives, escort what leaves and rush upon loss of contact -- Yip Man
Constant contact is what people require these days. Its tough on artists. -- Emily Robison
The value of friendship and just deep human contact grows out of giving. -- Patch Adams
In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding. -- Hu Shih
Leave every person you come in contact with, with the impression of increase. -- Wallace D. Wattles
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Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self. -- Wayne Dyer
Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't. -- Gabrielle Zevin
The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature. -- Anatole France
We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human. -- David Abram
Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.... -- Nicolas Chamfort
In war, as in love, we must come into contact before we triumph. -- Napoleon Bonaparte

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