Quotes About Connection

This precious thing of empathy and love and understanding is something we have to hold and appreciate and protect.

Never forget how precious life is or your loved ones.

Whenever I'm trying to decide how to spend my precious time, energy, or money, I ask myself a series of questions. 'Will this broaden or deepen my relationships?' 'Will this contribute to an atmosphere of growth in my life?' 'Is this a way to 'Be Gretchen?' and 'Will this help connect me to my past?'

No historical analogies are exactly precise.

I realized that a great deal of life is exactly and precisely about being able to feel pain: my own and other people's.

People come to the theatre in search of a real encounter with other human beings, and we must give them what they come for. Our capacity to do that is the measure of being human. And if the price is that we sometimes say something not very pleasant - well, that's precisely why people want us, in the end: because we speak the truth.

Hopefully when I make it to 80, I can go to a hockey game and watch the Predators and Capitals play with my grandkids. That's probably my legacy on the hockey side.

Intimates are predestined.

There was no way to predict that 'This is Us' was going to be what it is, that it would really resonate with people.

I enjoy it when characters love each other. It's more interesting, actually - it's less predictable.

With 'Arrested Development,' we tried showing the deep disdain that connects a family. We wanted to hold up a mirror to American society. And, just as predicted, America looked away.

If you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to have a conversation to find out what people prefer when it comes to sex.

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

I still prefer horses to human beings.

All things being equal, I think people would still prefer to do business with their hometown companies. That's true in America, that's true in China, that's true in Germany.

I think people lie on the Internet. I would prefer to meet someone in person, and I need to have chemistry when we meet and spend a little time, and have a couple of dates.

All my friends are girls. I just prefer the company of women.

I would much prefer that they take me as I am, that way the experience is genuine between the both of us.

Actually, I don't even like parties. I would much prefer a room with four friends who sit around and have dinner. I detest nightclubs. And I don't like places where the noise is so loud you can't talk to people.

In terms of my religious preference, if a year goes by and I don't have a Seder or I don't light the menorah, I feel a loss.

Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.

We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can - music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.

Not much about California, on its own preferred terms, has encouraged its children to see themselves as connected to one another.

I used to be a keen rider. Sometimes I could sense what a horse liked or preferred to do.