One piece of graffiti doesn't mean much. Forty pieces of graffiti might mean something... It's all about connecting the dots.
— Kim Rossmo
Cheerful Connecting The Dots quotations
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward;
you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth.
.. these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.
You can't connect the dots looking forward;
you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
When we inject people with positivity, their outlook expands.
They see the big picture. When we inject them with neutrality or negativity, their peripheral vision shrinks. There is no big picture, no dots to connect.
If you can connect all the dots between what you see today and where you want to go, then it's probably not ambitious enough or aspirational enough.
Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.
Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.
Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization.
When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity, and meaning in their job.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.
The inability of some critics to connect the dots doesn't make pointillism pointless
Someone once told me that the finer points of devotion are about the size of a pinhole, and there are millions of them. And if you could connect each dot, then you’ve got a diagram of what you think you thought you knew, and if you’re willing to admit that you know nothing…you have the blueprint for a breakthrough.
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
Death is very likely the single best invention of life.
It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick.
Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.
A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences.
So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.
You've got to find what you love.
i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.
The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking.
In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots.
Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door, which aided by several detours--long hallways and unforeseen stairwells--eventually puts you in the place you are now.
Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help make the big choices in life. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well worn path.
Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road map. But in the end we learn that life is lived in the side roads, alleys, and detours.
Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it.
And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.
Dream big. Start small and then connect the dots
Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.
Begin to live each day as if it was your last.
Symphony is the ability to see the big picture, connect the dots, combine disparate things into something new. Visual artists in particular are good at seeing how the pieces come together. I experienced this myself by trying to learn to draw.
The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
[Music] is the one thing that connects the dots in all kinds of ways.
No matter how you were brought up, no matter what your religious background or political beliefs, people still love to sing along with somebody.
Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later.