Quotes About Connection

Through my work at the Katie Piper Foundation, I've seen how the smallest of kindness can make a difference to someone's life. Even a simple smile instead of a start can lift someone's heart.

You have to find your tone and work within that to make it as real so the audience can really engage in the story you're telling.

My legacy is in my family, not in my work. For me. I don't know about for other people. I try to forget a lot.

I get very invested in characters, it's the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it work.

I just happen to admire everyone that we work with.

And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.

What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?

The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our attention; we attend to that person's growth.

You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you. (67)

I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.

When things don't work well in the bedroom, they don't work well in the living room either.

See with the eyes of love, / Hear with the ears of love / Work with the hands of love, / Think thoughts of love / Feel love in every nerve.

Working outdoors or from life puts you in direct contact with the life force, not just the light and the landscape, but also the vitality of the world around you.

Art is the space between the viewer and the rectangle that hangs on the wall. Unless something of the person that created the work is there, there's nothing for the viewer to take away.

I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.

I loved working with Bette Davis. Bette Davis was great to work with and a wonderful teacher, and very kind to me. We became good friends.

Gratitude is a sacred space where you allow and know that a force greater than your ego is always at work and always available.

Prayer is the key discipline whereby all spiritual work is done.

Understanding the materials I work with... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that are happening to me as I grow older.

Something deep within me connected with hard work, nature and simplicity.

What the artist must aim at above all else is this: to produce, by any process whatever, a work which by the life and humanity emanating from it communicates to the beholder . . . .

The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.

Meeting and talking to the artist adds a special element to collecting contemporary art that makes the work an irreplaceable treasure rather than just another possession.

When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that's the last thing you should do with kids. They feel patronized if you're like that. They just want you to be normal.