Quotes About Connection

The idea that people feel that they have to be sympathetic to me? It's a funny concept.

I really do try not to emote. I don't like seeing it on documentaries - it seems a bit unprofessional. I also need to be human being and be a kind of sympathetic presence for the contributors I'm with, so there' a line you have to walk.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

Sympathy relies on a common experience. If you're clumsy, you might have sympathy for others who tend to bump into things. Empathy, on the other hand, is the ability to understand another person's feelings even if you've never experienced them yourself.

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

As far as I'm concerned, I own my dogs as I own my body. My legs are with me when I take a shower, and I feel no shame. If I were to lose one, I'd grieve, and people would send sympathy cards, but it would be my condition that evoked the sympathy, not the fate of the leg. That's like losing a dog.

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the world.

What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy.

I have always had sympathy for Atletico Madrid because, among other things, I have friends there, and my father always liked Atletico.

I try to photograph with love and sympathy.

You can't have empathy for somebody that's gone through something you haven't - because, definitionally, you can't. But you can feel for them and have sympathy for them. And that's what this country needs to practice more. It's about realizing that you do come from a different place.

Not everyone can write a book or paint a picture or write a symphony, but almost anyone can fall in love. There is something almost miraculous in that.

When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.

Playing the Beethoven symphonies, for example, is a consummate experience for a musician because Beethoven speaks so directly to who we are as people.

When I was five, I heard the end of Beethoven's 'Ninth Symphony' with my mother, and I got goosebumps all over my body.

Feeling alone while you're going through something actually exacerbates the symptoms of it.

I always like to keep one hand in the tepee and the other hand in the synagogue. Wouldn't it be great if there was a combination of the two? You could go to synagogue, and it would be really hot in there.