When the customer makes contact, he does not want a quote. He wants a commitment.
There is a constant and intimate contact among the things that coexist and co-evolve in the universe - a sharing of bonds and messages that makes reality into a stupendous network of interaction and communication.
What's important to me is that there's a necessary alienation between me and the subject. I don't want to know them well. I don't want to have any intimate contact with them.
Can anything match that first fine discovery of the telephone and all it stood for? That first realization that, contained within ten simple digits, lay the infinitely possible? Out there. . . lay six billion ears, all the people in the world available for contact and mystery and insult, unable to resist the beckoning of one small and villainous forefinger.
To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves.
The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.
I miss the hot spots. I miss the hospital calls. I miss the nursing homes. I miss the really intimate human contact with other people, which I did nothing to earn.
When we are in contact with our feelings and needs, we humans no longer make good slaves and underlings.
It seems unlikely that we're alone in the universe. But I'm pretty sure nobody's hiding any contact.
We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have the sensation that "I myself" is a seperate center of feeling and action, living inside and bounded by the physical body-a center which "confronts" an "external" world of people and things, making contact through the senses with a universe both alien and strange.
We are trusted, loved and wanted in direct proportion to how we trust, love and want those with whom we come in contact
I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every day. I needed a contact with different things, like nature, for example. I cannot be in front of a computer trying to tell a story.
The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.
Never make eye contact with anyone while eating a banana
I think writing is really a process of communication. . . . It's the sense of being in contact with people who are part of a particular audience that really makes a difference to me in writing.
I believe that ultimately it all comes down to whether we seek conscious contact with God on a daily basis through prayer and meditation.
New Yorkers are so impersonal, if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all!
Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.
When we have an inner initiation into pure love, we are in contact with our true nature.
It is possible to contact higher beings who are not in the body. But the being you really want to contact is you.