Quotes About Connection

I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is.

Art is not created in a vacuum. That experience is something to be shared with a group of people, and to be moved in that way.

To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience.

Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.

Songs come alive every night and can be a new experience for someone. You might have someone in the audience who has never seen us before and hearing it for the first time. We are aware of that.

One generalization that is supported both by research and experience is that effective two-way communication is essential to proper functioning of the leader-follower relationship.

Making books has always felt very connected to my bookselling experience, that of wanting to draw people's attention to things that I liked, to shape things that I liked into new shapes.

No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a communal experience. To read is intimate. It's almost masturbatory.

But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.

I always want readers to lose themselves completely in a story and feel something, whatever the book invites them to feel. That experience is the best takeaway any book can offer.

Digital music boils down the actual musical experience.

At some point just about all of us experience loneliness. In a sense, it is what it means to be a sentient animal, to have an experience of separation from others.

sometimes I was so bored that I started arguments just to experience the rush of almost losing him.

When I feel very loved, when I nurture and support people, my experience is deepened. I feel connected to a larger purpose and meaning.

I did have wonderful things to draw from, from my own experience and also just from friends and people I'd gone to school with who were very much immersed in this world right now.

I like not knowing too much about somebody I'm photographing, because the process also becomes an experience for me to learn about .

Story is a sacred visualization, a way of echoing experience.

She had always known that all lives are in common, rejoicing in her kinship to the fish in the tanks of her laboratories, seeking the experience of existences outside the human boundary.

I had an experience that probably is shared by many parents. When my daughter was born, I felt viscerally connected to generations before and after me in a way that took me by surprise.

I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.

Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience.

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.

Getting to know athletes from all over the planet is a big part of the Olympic experience.

It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.