Quotes About Connection

There are very few people that I deal with from a business side that it's just strictly a one-sided business relationship. I think that's important.

If you're living strictly for the future or living in the past, it can make your partner feel neglected. Make yourself focus on the moment you're in.

I never see Oti! I see her on the dance floor, I see her shortly at the after party but that's it. In the week she's doing her 'Strictly' zoom and I hardly ever see her.

All my songs usually borrow from my own life but pull from fantasy or other people's stories that you hear, or something you read. It's fun as a writer to pull from all those different places, and to connect them. But also, I don't have an interesting enough life to strictly pull from that.

We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared.

As actors, we're so used to the axe falling, and then we all go our separate ways. I can tell you, the feeling amongst the cast in 'Nashville' is, we don't feel like we're done. It feels like, in some way, we're just hitting our stride.

Maybe that's my only remorse, not having played more alongside Ibrahmovic towards the end of my career with Milan. We had an incredible feeling - he was delighted when I scored and I think we were made to play together and be a strike partnership.

Songs I do have to strike an emotional chord the first time I sing them.

It's really hard to find a love song that is real. That's when you really strike a chord with somebody, when you dig in deep and grab a hold.

Over the years I have become convinced that we learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.

I think there has to be an empathic strike between the reader and the protagonist. There has to be something said or known that connects the reader to this person you're going to ride through the story with.

The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.

I love those kinds of parts that don't seem to be huge but they really strike a chord with the audience.

The producers and I felt that 'Kanchana 2' would be the apt title when compared to 'Muni 3.' Because, it goes with the prequel and will immediately strike a chord with the audience.

People didn't know me. So, I had to strike a chord and build relationships.

I'm listening to scripts and would like to play characters that'd strike a chord with the masses.

Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it.

What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life.

Hopefully, somebody who's hearing my music, it's relatable to them, and it strikes a cord with them.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

For my 50th birthday, my cousin Helmut gave me the most profound, beautiful, and striking present. He made books out of my dad's slide photographs, which were stored and forgotten. Looking at those books made me cry.

You gotta make sure the listener is listening to you, so if you put it into a song, often times, if the song is striking enough, then you can really deliver the story most effectively while keeping the ear of the listener the whole time.

Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck.

After 40 years of not playing, I admit I'm totally in love with my guitar. It's a Froggy Bottom acoustic steel string guitar. All I have to do is hit a couple of clean chords and the endorphins are right there. It's like the top of my head has come off and stardust and magic have fallen in.