Quotes About Connection

As the U.S. ambassador to Japan, I see this challenge of our younger generations not knowing each other as well as the prior generations.

If you're a retailer and know that once a year you're going to get Mary Higgins Clark's book on a given date, you're going to have an awful lot of copies out there in time for that. You'd have to be simple-minded not to do that - although bookselling prior to 1950 never made that connection.

Funny enough, apart from when I was at school, I've always gone out with younger men - I was even married briefly to one prior to Angus.

Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.

Prioritize your family.

Just because you have chemistry with someone doesn't mean you're naturally going to be the best for each other. You have make choices and prioritize.

We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.

My first priority is time with my family.

Being with my family is my highest priority.

Connecting with my daughter is the most important thing in my life - the priority. I want to be a man who shows up for her. I want to have such a big influence on her, so that she knows she can call me about anything, which she does.

My family is my priority.

There's something about the alchemy of the show - the actors, the writers, the directors, the editors - that makes 'Parenthood' unique. You get so deeply embedded with these characters because you go through life with them, and that's our priority.

Marriage isn't always cupcakes and Jesus juice, but it's important to show each other your marriage is a priority and that you still love them.

I really feel my family is my priority.

I need my family and friends around all the time. They are always my number one priority, and that will never change.

My relationships with the Duke coaches were the best, and they made me a priority.

You just want someone that you're going to get on with. That is genuinely the first priority. Even before how good they are, you want someone that you know you're going to have a laugh with and that the journey is going to be OK between the two of you.

Family for me is my priority and nothing replaces them for me.

I got mail from a prison once.

I come from Eastside Buffalo and prison cells. That's the beauty about hip-hop. It just brings everybody together.

I think at some point I would like to meet my dad. He's in prison in the U.S. for life, so it's about figuring out where he is stationed and making time to see him.

I have not worked with farmers. I have not worked with prisoners. I have only worked with human beings. I didn't see anybody as anything other than that.

A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy.

Over the course of three years or so, I've been able to create a nice little Rolodex of CrossFit gyms. I've ingratiated myself to the community, and that allows for a much more accessible training session as far as privacy is concerned.