Quotes About Connection

Sensation is amphibious: at the same time it joins us to and divides us from things. It is the door through which we enter into things but also through which we come out of them and realize that we are not things.

Speech, not violence, is how we will bridge the divides between us.

It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.

If you really love someone, you can't be angry if they don't love you the same way. You got to just love them because you love them, not because you're expecting anything back in return.

I love coming to Edinburgh and last time I was here, Claire and I found out we were expecting our daughter Eleanor, so it's a place dear to my heart.

My dad and I, we're just unique, we understand each other, we know what one another expects.

The fundamental thing for anybody, any relationship or any expedition or anything is communication.

Strong emotional connections between individuals, customers, and salespeople that trust each other will always be 10 times more powerful than the most expensive ad campaign. That's the power social media makes possible.

I don't think you have to have experienced things to understand them.

If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak that same language of loss.

I've never experienced the love I have for my daughter.

You have to understand that during the course of our show, we were a family for five hours a day, five days a week, maybe four days a week. And we experienced the same things that we experienced in our own family.

It's the only way I really know how to tell the story is to be able to kind of live through the characters. So when I find something that resonates with me, it's usually because it cuts to something very real inside of me; something that I've gone through or experienced.

I've experienced love and ambition and desire in my life, but never in the same way as in a family.

So many young people are coming out of a generation that has experienced deep woundedness and brokenness, and they are full of life. They are eager to engage. They care about community, and they care about one another.

I think most people have experienced that at some point: being on one end or the other of a super-unbalanced relationship.

If there's one thing that I know how to do, it's talk to actors. From what I have experienced working with so many different directors in so many different things, a lot of them don't really know how to talk to us.

WeWork has always believed that we are better together, and a large part of that is learning from others through meaningful connections and experiences.

It's so easy to get caught up in your own experiences. They can seem so important. But there are billions and billions of other experiences going on.

I'm always thinking about the bigger picture and always feeling so much for everybody else, and kind of experiencing the pain of the world, personally.

Things that you might be embarrassed to tell a group about yourself - honestly, that's probably what the majority of the group is experiencing are those things that you keep quiet in your heart.

When you're close to somebody, you can never really know how they're experiencing the world.

It's an incredible thing when you are creating something in a moment with the other people on stage and with an audience, and you are all experiencing it together as it exists in that one night. It's a magical feeling.