Quotes About Connection

Most of us live in a Jackal world where we take turns using the other person as a waste basket for our words.

All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.

The people who matter will recognize who you are.

Every message, regardless of form or content, is an expression of a need.

There is a universal urge for intimacy, for trading subjectivities, in communication. For Telepathy. Our desire for it tells us about what we wish to be: truly intersubjective beings.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

I don't think you can have an authentic connection when one person is diagnosing the other.

What worries me is that now, communication is virtual.

What others do may be the stimulus of our feelings, but never the cause.

When we listen for their feelings and needs, we no longer see people as monsters.

People heal from their pain when they have an authentic connection with another human being.

It is a rare and valuable tonic to share insights, dreams and concerns with people whom you have never met. The sole purpose for such exchanges is simply to give light to one another.

Radio affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener.

To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.

Never question the beauty of what you are saying because someone reacts with pain, judgment, criticism. It just means they have not heard you.

The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of the world

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

Compliments and praise, for their part, are tragic expressions of fulfilled needs

You cannot be president of the United States if people below $50,000 don't think you care about them and you have no real communication that motivates them to vote for you.

When people hear needs, it provokes compassion. When people hear diagnoses, it provokes defensiveness and attack.

Thanks to the greatly improved possibility of communication, we overrate its importance. Even stronger, we underrate the importance of isolation.

Classifying and judging people promotes violence.

Empathy before education.

It's not all about content. It's all about stories. It's not all about stories. It's all about great stories.