Quotes About Connection

I was connected to the theater, it was my first love, where my career was focused, on interesting ways to tell stories.

I have always believed that an artiste needs to respond to a story first. One has to feel it in order to live it.

New York is the first place I have ever felt safe.

There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.

I'm still writing from personal experiences, which is what people connected with in the first place.

Every artist wants an audience, and it's incredible to me how books take on a life of their own and reach people whom you could never meet. That's what got me interested in writing in the first place.

There's a misconception that, as you have success with a band for a long time, things get easier, and that's not necessarily true. It's harder to keep connecting with that fire that got you started in the first place when you're amongst all the politics in the business, and just having a little bit of that looming pressure.

If you want to be listened to, the first step is to listen well yourself.

My first thing with every club I have worked in is to get a personal relationship with the players and then build a professional one.

When I moved back to Cumbria, one of the first things I did was locate a decent bookshop.

I had great faith in Prince Of Penzance, from the moment I rode him for the first time.

I've always been interested in giving the audience a first-person experience in my movies.

I spend about 200 days a year abroad, so I love being able to connect with fans and share some of my experiences firsthand.

My father used to be a fisherman, so it always makes me feel close to him when I am there on the water catching my dinner.

When I was four years old, I found fishing and it has been my base ever since.

I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.'

As a fighter, you know when you connect with a really good shot because you feel the impact on your fist.

I never really fit in anywhere.

I still fit in with the hillbillies!

I actually like seeing how the world - trying to figure out how the world works, how it all fits together. Also, it makes me happy when I feel like things are consistent, when there's some sort of order to the universe.

My father used to call me 'bird bones' and, well, the name fits.

The artificial leg was like an alien body, fitted to mine. Both had to respond to each other.

If people fit together, they fit for a reason. It's usually the sickest part of one person fitting into the attraction of the sickest part of another.

I can talk to anybody but when it comes to somebody that I like, then I turn into like this five-year-old kindergartener in a sandbox.