Top 213 Dots Quotes & Sayings

I always say investors invest in lines, not dots.

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.

I suppose all moms have an idea who they hope their daughters will be. Like a connect-the-dots picture where you think you know what shape it will become. But then it's the daughter who draws the lines, and she might connect the dots you didn't intend, making a whole different picture. So I've gotta trust the dots she's given me, and she's gotta trust me to draw the picture myself.

When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.

I don't think Seurat would have been aware of the dots - he would have been aware of what he was trying to do. The dots were an instrument.

...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

I routinely interview college students, mostly from top schools, and I notice that their brains are like old maps, with lots of blank spaces for the uncharted terrain. It's not that they lack for motivation or IQ. It's that they can't connect the dots when they don't know where the dots are in the first place.

At a meta level, design connects the dots between mere survival and humanism.

Who are they to give stars or dots? They're Wemmicks just like you." Eli to Punchinello (p. 25)

My life is a dot lost among thousands of other dots.

It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.

The inability of some critics to connect the dots doesn't make pointillism pointless

Fans watching need to be able to connect the dots in your match and the story that you're trying to tell.

When I hear [about a housing bubble] I get the sense that people aren't connecting the dots.

Life is a million different dots making one gigantic picture. And maybe the big picture is nice, maybe it's amazing, but if you're standing with your face pressed up against a bunch of black dots, it's really hard to tell.

I never could make out what those damned dots meant.

Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story

I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems came from?.

Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots we become part of the unity of our environments.

All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed.

It's fine to dress in polka dots and pink crinoline if you want. What I recoil from is the idea that that alone is the only way to be female.

Normal people, who grow up with compassion, never amount to anything. They're the ones who end up gluing those little dots on the highway. Or, putting glue on the dots for the guy who glues dots on the highway. Screwed up people, who weren't coddled or raised with compassion, we get stuff done. Sure, we feel a little alone and abandoned, but, we're... very... happy. Why can't you love me, daddy?

Since my childhood, I have always made works with polka dots. Earth, moon, sun and human beings all represent dots; a single particle among billions.

A polka-dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living life, and also the form of the moon, which is calm. Round, soft, colourful, senseless and unknowing. Polka-dots can't stay alone; like the communicative life of people, two or three polka-dots become movement... Polka-dots are a way to infinity.

I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is.

My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.

In the work of Seurat, you can see the dots of neutral colors carrying the form and then the dots of more intense color that make the color texture. It is a totally different principle that than of the Impressionists who used broken color to imitate visual effect.

I used to enjoy using dots where they would be least expected, not at the end of a sentence but in the middle, creating the effect... of a skipped beat. It seemed to me the mind reacted - first!... in dots, dashes, and exclamation points, then rationalized, drew up a brief, with periods.

I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his or her dice.

Many musicians are fabulously skilled at playing the black dots on the printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there in the first place and apprehensive of playing without dots. Music theory does not help here; it teaches rules of the grammar, but not what to say. When people ask me how to improvise, only a little of what I can say is about music. The real story is about spontaneous expression, and it is therefore a spiritual and a psychological story rather than a story about the technique of one art form or another.

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.

The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist

What am I thankful for? MY POLKA DOTS!!

The most important thing for people to get is we're not even looking at one big investigation, all these agents working together. They were chopped up and divided, but because I worked in the central place... other agents were sending their material to me... I was in this position to see all the dots being connected... These agents, while I was there, because I was the central person, they started connecting the dots.

The bows, the polka dots, the color, the playfulness - you don't have to over do it. You just have to be able to style it in the right way.

Quotes are like prompts. A way of searching, connecting the dots.

Dream big. Start small and then connect the dots

I think, as an artist, I wear a lot of different hats, and people have to join all of the dots.

Too many dots," Miller said. "Not enough lines.

The phrase that I use a lot is you've got to connect the dots and keep connecting them up to the finish.

It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.

Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps.

When we were small, Rose and I used to play a game called connect the dots. I loved it. I loved drawing a line from dot number 1 to dot number 2 and so on. Most of all, I loved the moment when the chaotic sprinkle of dots resolved itself into a picture. That's what stories do. They connect the random dots of life into a picture. But it's all an illusion. Just try to connect the dots of life. You'll end up with a lunatic scribble.

Suppose I put polka dots all over my body and then cover my background completely with polka dots. The polka dots on my body, merging with those in the background, create an optically strange scene.

Life is simply a connect-the dots game, and all the dots have already been identified and organized by somebody else. All you have to do is follow the blueprint, use the system, or work the program that they provide.

Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.

Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.

Davos is about connecting the dots. It is a networking event and I mean that with the very best intention.

Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments.

One of the amazing things about September 11 is that we lacked the imagination to connect the dots and foresee it.

I'm really into color. I love polka dots, rainbows, any pattern.

Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.

Polka dots are fabulous.

Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.

I love all dots. I am married to many of them. I want all dots to be happy. Dots are my brothers. I am a dot myself.

I want consumers to connect the dots, to go to any store and look at the label and connect the dots between buying cheap China products, which is better for the wallet, and all the other things we lose, like jobs.

The score is not a bible, and I am never afraid to dare. The music is behind those dots.

I think that once I started connecting dots of where my food was coming from and the reality of that, as opposed to maybe what you think it is as a little kid, and the realities of how my food was getting to my plate and what the real effects of that are. When I started connecting those dots, I couldn't disconnect them.

Ironically, fashion trends, be it denim or polka dots, have a tendency to perpetuate the contrary.