Quotes About Connection

The best way to learn to be present and develop presence is to have the experience of someone you respect and admire being present with and for you.

The presence of a bed changes the way people interact.

I was extremely close to my mother-in-law and after she, and later my father-in-law passed away, I continue to feel their presence.

Football means little without the presence of fans.

My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

I always feel like the past informs my present musically.

When you know you haven't been connecting with, persuading, or getting through to someone, consciously pause before meeting them and say to yourself, 'During this conversation, I am committing to being present and to connecting.'

I love fumbling around on the guitar, I love being present with people.

There are plenty of reasons to put our cellphones down now and then, not least the fact that incessantly checking them takes us out of the present moment and disrupts family dinners around the globe.

History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment.

A lot of times, when I interact with someone for the first time, I don't want to see the presentation.

We are engaging with so many art forms at once in the 21st century, but we're presented with them in a way that is so isolated.

I kissed John Updike as he presented me with an award. It wasn't the best kiss as far as kisses go, but I hold the fact that I kissed John Updike, that he kissed me, very close to my heart.

Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way.

The biggest thing that I hope people take away when they listen to my music is that they feel that there is an outlet being presented that allows them to be more authentic and for them to be more honest in their own lives.

Brock Lesnar and I have a very unique chemistry. It works. It's worked since 2002; it will continue to work any time we are presented together.

With music, you're really showing someone a piece of your soul. You're saying, 'This is mine. I wrote this, I made this, I'm performing this. This is how I'm presenting it to you.' There's something really scary about that, but there's also something next-worldly about it, too.

I have a very big family and a lot of friends, and buying presents is one of my favorite things to do.

One truth I've learned as a father: Children want presence more than presents. They don't want to read about you; they want you.

It is a parent's responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the relationship, so that the children can let go and become their own selves.

I don't think it's more important to preserve female friendship than a marriage. But I think that there's a place for female friendship that's really important in the lives of all the women I know. As I've gotten older, it's become much more important to me.

I hope people understand there is a world outside our life in this bubble and hope we can appreciate it and preserve it.

Being on stage was all about the palpable energy of a rapt audience hopefully buying into a life onstage. The immediate connection with the audience was the best part for me. The camera is not as fun, but your work is preserved forever. There's immortality to it.