Quotes About Connection

With film, I always sit with people first and talk a while, and then we read or sing or whatever. I never sit behind a table. I get up; I work with them. I do everything I possibly can to not audition them. I can find out the best of them from them feeling comfortable and appreciated. I'd never let someone leave feeling not valued.

Fundamentally, if people don't feel like their lives are valued and they don't value their lives, they're not going to value their neighbors' lives.

We live in a society where individual effort and progress is valued, and that's absolutely correct and is as it should be. But we also are interdependent creatures. We can't succeed solely on our own.

Social media is reducing social barriers. It connects people on the strength of human values, not identities.

We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.

I am an American, steeped in American values. But I know on an emotional level what it means to be of the Chinese culture.

Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone.

A whole set of values comes with fast food: Everything should be fast, cheap and easy; there's always more where that came from; there are no seasons; you shouldn't be paid very much for preparing food. It's uniformity and a lack of connection.

To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.

All our relationships are person-to-person. They involve people seeing, hearing, touching, and speaking to each other; they involve sharing goods; and they involve moral values like generosity and compassion.

Number 12, always remember that I love you -both of you. Oh, Willie, ya silly goose!

We didn't try to talk. We really didn't need to. Later we would hear from one another all the details of the four miserable days of separation. For now it was enough just to be together again.

Most observant Judeans were content to pray the morning and the evening services. The teachers often said that the afternoon prayers carried a greater sense of divine connection, because they were the hardest to observe. People could more easily find time to address the Holy One at the beginning and the end of each day, but to stop in the middle of activities and pray, this signified a special calling.

We did not go right to sleep but talked until late into the night. There was so much to tell one another, so many questions on my mind.

Mankind cannot suffer anywhere without it bringing sorrow to other hearts

His gaze lingered upon Abigail

girl thet I've ever felt this way about." Lou was probably thinkin' right then about Tillie White-comb, who'd

My name be Clark Davis, he hurried on,an it peers to me thet you an' me be in need of one another.

His eyes fixed on mine for an instant, then he turned back to the fire. The

It was Gramps' turn now. He took his time and

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. —Marcel Proust

Tom Wolfe was in town and I invited him over to the house to meet Hunter. The two of them were great fans of each other, Hell's Angels and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test were almost companion books, yet these men had never met.

Keith told me that the key to Mick was his mother.

I was afraid of anything that would break the threads that bound me to the kids, to the idea of family.