Quotes About Connection

If you can't pay it back, pay it forward.

I think that's my goal as time goes on, is to just try and pay it forward.

Stay as connected as you can. Sometimes that means you're going to do a job that may not pay you much but may give you a great connection. If the work is not going the way you need it to go, create your own!

Pay attention to other people's nightmares because they might be contagious.

You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh.

What you look for as a reader is somebody who is going to take you and say, 'C'mon. Come into the story. I'm going to show you what there is to see.' The guide who is going to tell you, 'Pay attention over there,' or, 'Do you remember that other thing? Now watch!'

I want you to begin keeping a calendar of who you see and when: the first day each year you see buttercups, the first day frogs start singing, the last day you see robins in the fall, the first day for grasshoppers. In short, I want you to pay attention.

When someone is there for you, has your back, that's somebody to pay attention to because that's a friend.

I think what everybody really wants is attention; we just want someone to pay attention to us.

I think the more complex your idea of who someone is or who a particular group is, the less able you are to separate 'we' and 'outside' or 'us and them.' I think that that's something that we really, really need to pay attention to.

Pay attention to not only what you're saying or doing but who you're saying and doing it with.

For most of my life, I didn't pay attention to birds.

Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.

People are paying to see me. You've got to give something back.

When you're being looked at very hard, it's very hard to look back. And that made me stop paying attention to the world in a way that allowed me then to write about it.

We've all seen the mom who devotes all her time and attention to her child and is so hungry for adult interaction that as soon as she's around another adult, she's not paying attention anymore.

How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the human being across from us who is talking with us, by being so lazy that we're not willing to process deeply?

I don't look at paying $8 billion for the directories business of Qwest as the thing that would really excite me... I'm looking at a connection to the human being where it's interesting.

The saddest thing is when a guy is paying so much attention to the world and everything going by that he can't take the time for his own mother.

When a horse offers their face to you, they're interested in what you are, what you're doing. They're paying attention.

Over the years, I just started paying a lot more attention not to whether I was right or wrong, but just to how I make people feel.

When you first start out in the music business and hope that you have a couple hits, the ultimate payoff is to be standing in front of all those people who are singing it back to you at the top of their lungs. And you know by the way they're singing it back that it's affected their life in some way. That's the ultimate reward as an artist for me.

I was Overflow. Another one I had was the Caped Crusader. Chamillionaire was Payroll. That was our group back then, Payroll and the Caped Crusader. We grew up on the same street so we lived a few houses down from each other. So we knew each other pretty much all our life.

When you live with someone, it pays to buy them a gift that you would love to have around the house.