Quotes About Connection

When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.

The simple act of recognizing diversity in corporate life helps us to connect the great variety of gifts that people bring to the work and service of the corporation.

My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.

As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with, and how - becomes wider.

I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.

Even if your work touches one person, that's an amazing gift.

A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave the artist's mind.

We're still at the beginning of a major transition in how people communicate and work together.

Most people have music in the center of their lives. I believe my work sheds light on how music affects us and why it is so influential.

I can't think. I can't work or sleep. My body aches for you. I can make you want me again. Let me try.

Why not work with your friends? It's working with people you know, and you share the same sensibility.

We did a book signing and people came up to me. There was an expectant mother who was like, "I think we might name our child Zach because of your work."

When I go onstage, I'm going to work ...I feel like my performance is about an emotional connection. I want to connect with people, whether it's like a romantic song or a happy song.

A worker must win the hearts and affections of the people before he can do any effective work.

I would love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins. How and why that would happen in a comedy I'm not sure - why he would be dragged over to my side, or I'd be be dragged over to his side.

The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it.

No friendship has done its work until it reaches the supremest satisfaction of spiritual communion.

I believe in my work and in the joy of it. You have to be with the work and the work has to be with you. It absorbs you totally and you absorb it totally.

Exchange is creation.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

When women work together, it's a bond unlike any other.

As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.

When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.

My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive.