Quotes About Connection

Scenes on phones are really boring!

Look around you in any restaurant, and you will see couples, families, and friends glued to their phones.

Our phones don't just keep us in touch with the world; they're also diaries, confessional booths, repositories for our deepest secrets.

I am not anti-Internet, and I don't think smart phones are a social ill.

I think, as people, we're isolating ourselves. We're talking to each other through our phones, arguing... those divisions freak me out.

But every so often we'll get to this place where everyone in the room is fully focused on what's happening. You see it happens in sports sometimes, when there's a really important moment. It's a great thing when you can get to those places, when you look up you don't see a bunch of phones out.

In some cases, mobile phones have made people extremely unsocial. I don't like that.

We don't have phones at the dinner table.

I never liked the idea of taking a photo just for yourself - I think everything is better when shared.

I think it's important to try to get on a kid's level when taking their photo.

If I were talking to someone, I'd look at their eyes, not at the blemish on the side of their face. But as soon as you open up that photo on a 30-inch monitor, you'd say, 'Oh my gosh, where did that come from?'

My roommate and best friend from college had the picture of 'Frances Ha' as her Facebook cover photo. That movie meant a lot to us.

It can be embarrassing paying someone a compliment, but, in the modern world, these don't even have to be done out loud. When you're scrolling in the morning on Instagram, don't just like someone's photo, but make a point of going into the comments section and write down one nice thing that you see or feel about that picture.

I'm certainly interested in taking a photo with anyone who took time out of their busy schedule in life to say hello.

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

When you photograph someone, you have to make them feel good, and you know that they want to look good. It's the same relationship that you have when you apply makeup on somebody. We're almost like shrinks.

It's very hard for me to photograph someone when I'm not attracted by who they are.

Mourinho knows me! He sat in my lap as a little boy, and wanted his photograph taken with me. I knew his father and so I bounced little Jose on my knee. He always looked up to me.

'Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own family photo albums.

What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world.

What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.

I like to talk to people and, obviously, to photograph them.

I love coffee, but I don't photograph it. That's not who I am. I'm a social creature, so my subject should not be the coffee. It's about being together with friends.

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given.