Quotes About Connection

Shane McAnally is a really good friend of mine. He's one of the first guys that really embraced what I was doing with an open mind.

If you don't open your eyes to other people's lives, you can't even begin to understand how the world works at all.

In all of my books, I've emphasized that the fundamental difference between civilized and indigenous ways of being is that, for even the most open-minded of the civilized, listening to the natural world is a metaphor.

Magic is, in its core, introverted and closed; it's the most closed community ever, and I want to change all that and make it more open. If we want things to change, we have to be more open-minded.

People who are open-hearted and open-minded touch me deeply.

If you can open people's hearts first, then maybe people's minds get opened after that.

My eyes and spirit have opened up since I found someone that I get to share my life with.

A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I married her.

I was 'impressed' by Hugh Jackman for five seconds the first time I met him, but as soon as he opened his mouth and shook my hand, I felt comfortable. He made me feel like I was one of his friends.

I've written immense love letters that are supposed to be opened over days at a time.

People are much more loose if you are having fun. I had a basketball player who was really soft-spoken, and then we played Connect Four with him, and he really opened up!

Taika grabbed me and went, 'Come and meet these guys'. He knocked on this really massive campervan and then the door opened and there's Chris Hemsworth and Mark Ruffalo peering down, then giving me high-fives and hugs. I was like, 'Oh my god.'

Music is nothing but a door opener to meet families and their children and the elderly.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Music is a way of opening up.

Whenever I have a play or opening or anything going on in my career, my parents always come up and see it.

The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it's about opening yourself up to what they bring.

I really love headlining. Opening up is fun - getting to play for all these people who might not know you - but it's so much easier sometimes playing for people who know all your songs: you get that instant feedback.

The true meaning of an artist/actor is opening my heart to the audience and, at the same time, opening their heart.

I'm not good at opening up with people.

I met my first wife at the fishmonger's in the summer of 1987, some six months after opening Harveys.

I like to go to openings when I'm in it, or friends are in it.

Communication is number one, and we have to communicate honestly and openly with each other.

I tried to live my life really openly and transparently right from the get-go. I think that probably resonated with people.