Quotes About Connection

When I was coach at Ajax, in the first half of the season, the players needed time to adapt to me, to know who I am as a person and as a coach.

I talk to the players, either individually or as a group, what I'm feeling, and I think the players appreciate that. And I think they respond to that.

I learned how not to be alone in the playground.

But at least if you are with your kid in a playground, be there mentally as well as physically, even for 20 minutes. Focus means everything to a child.

The ocean is my church and my playground, and it's where I love to be. It's where I belong.

I love playing online games with my fans.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too.

Listening to my dad playing guitar along to 'Sleepwalk' by the Shadows was probably the first time I discovered emotion in music.

I listen mostly to live music, and mostly my musical experience was playing music with other people.

Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.

I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.

I can see that everybody has their own challenges that they are dealing with. But what's so beautiful about music is that it brings people together, levels the playing field and opens people up.

Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.

Everybody is playing games. There are games now for pretty much every age, every demographic.

People talk about games and loneliness - it's a lonely activity. I didn't understand that. 'Gears of War' was the first multiplayer game for me that I enjoyed. But I wasn't sad. I liked being alone. I liked playing games by myself. I had lots of companionship at the house.

I don't know grammar but I do know that I love playing games on my phone.

One of my best friends in the world is Lars Frederiksen. He plays guitar for a band called Rancid.

You can give me any of Shakespeare's plays and I'll tell you a parallel African folktale.

And for the first time in a long time, I'm playing along somebody that has that same energy and fire and plays pretty much the same way I do. So, that was just nice to say.

In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.

Havin' Dylan cover one of your songs is like being a playwright and having Shakespeare act in your play.

One of the great things that playwright A.R. Gurney does in 'Sylvia' is he gives language to the emotional gestures and energy that our dogs give to us when they're communicating.

When I was 16, I created this online platform for female artists. I messaged women who I loved; that's how I got work and connected with people. You don't need to plead for entry into a system that doesn't want you anyway.