Quotes About Connection

Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.

When you need empathy, you cannot give empathy.

Creating art alone doesn't seem to fill us up, in my opinion, until we begin to truly communicate with it.

Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.

We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech.

Remember that whatever anyone does, it is an effort to meet a need.

People are self-absorbed. I think that the mass ability of communication now probably allows individuals to meet more self-absorbed individuals. It has certainly changed the way that people meet.

One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.

Understanding and connection can transcend conflict.

I continuously strive to touch lives.

Once you have access to key people in an organization, if you go into a meeting with enemy images of those people - then you are not going to connect.

The greatest communication skill is paying value to others.

The triumphs of a mysterious non-meeting are desolate ones; unspoken phrases, silent words.

I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind of sociology, as is documentary photography.

Interpretations, criticisms, diagnoses, and judgments of others are actually alienated expressions of our unmet needs.

I think it's important to have a consistent communication with the fans but I don't think it should be expected.

I think a very important aspect of language has to do with the establishment of social relations and interactions. Often, this is described as communication. But that is very misleading, I think.

That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.

Your communication should not be for you. Your communication should be a service vehicle to reach the other person. Talking is for the other person. Listening is for you.

Sin comes when communication lines are down - it always does, sooner or later.

Use the words "I feel because I" to remind us that what we feel it isn't because of what the other person did, but because of a choice I've made.

Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.

The more we use words that in any way imply criticism, the more difficult it is for people to stay connected to the beauty within themselves.

Communication without a purpose is artistic masturbation.