Quotes About Connection

There are no coincidences in the universe, only convergences of Will, Intent, and Experience.

Mass market desire is about meaning and experience.

If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter.

To empathize means to share, to experience the feelings of another person.

I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick one up and experience a personal sense of discovery. That's great. But for them, not for me.

When we are open to ourselves and our own experience, and therefore, open to the world, then the world can respond.

Over the course of a day, you get to get a feel for where you're playing, so when you get out on stage, you already feel like you've had a bit of a bonding experience with them.

I was forever changed by my experience on "Once and Again." All of us who were on that show have deep connections... familial connections.

I want everyone to be able to have the same experience through the music as me. It's important to get it out.

It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.

Incredible experience, watching a baby birth on the internet. It's now my screensaver.

That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.

When you fight someone, you share the experience with that one person, and you're never going to have that experience with someone else-even in another fight.

The most important thing whenever we're connecting kids to books, is that we try to match the book to the kid and make sure that reading is a fun, rewarding experience outside the classroom.

I want to connect music to its highest power - which is heightening consciousness and affecting people's reality. That can't be done in normal ways, not according to my experience.

Rather than seeing dreams as containing hidden messages, see dreams as experiences of empathy. Then use empathy with the dream to reconnect with the experience of dreaming itself.

For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me.

Post-9/11, we saw an immediate uptick in the amount of people in our stores, all over the country. People wanted that human connection. We are not going to fracture the Starbucks experience.

That's the wonderful thing about drama and writing and fiction: it's this wonderful shared experience that we all have. We can see into each other's lives.

Eating cookies that you bake with your grandmother is one of the greatest social steps one must experience in order to grow up into a decent world citizen, in my opinion.

It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.

I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.

It's a different experience to be with your kids when your spouse isn't around.

In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.