Having a Christian worldview shapes my decision-making with respect to all aspects of my life. I always respect people in public life who are principled, and those principles have to be connected to something. And my faith is what serves as the anchor and directs my actions.
The reason we form networks is because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs. It’s to our advantage as individuals and a species to assemble ourselves in this fashion.
I thought I’d be doing theater, really. That’s all I had experience with growing up. I mean, I saw movies and television, but I don’t think I really connected at a young age that that was acting, that that was part of the profession.
Although humans see reality in colour, for me, black and white has always been connected to the image’s deeper truth, to its most hidden meaning.
Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.
I go up to San Francisco on holidays and spend time with my family there, but whenever I go to Japan, I enjoy every moment. I try to go back there every year or so. It’s a phenomenal place, and I absolutely love it. It’s not my second home; it is my home. Whenever I go back, I feel very connected with Japan.
While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.
If everybody thinks of something, then it will happen. Your mind is part of the universe. It is connected, you can use its energy.
I am aware that my name has been connected with all the bank robberies in the country; but positively I had nothing to do with any one of them. I look upon my life since the war as a blank, and will never say anything to make it appear otherwise.
We all know Sen. Feinstein is out of touch, but just to make it worse, by not embracing today’s technology, she isn’t even connected. Out of touch and disconnected.
If you are connected to your own internal being, it is very hard to be screwing and destroying and hurting another human being, because you’ll be feeling what they’re feeling. If you’re separated, it’s not a hard thing to do at all.
You can’t be a feminist in the United States and stand up for the rights of the American woman and then say that you don’t want to stand up for the rights of Palestinian women in Palestine. It’s all connected.
The minute we became a global society, especially now that we’re all connected up with the Internet, people wanted to believe in something a little more interesting than their earthbound lives.
My strips are not always funny, and they can be pretty grim at times, and I know I lose readers because of it, but I can’t do anything about it – my work is very much connected to something I need to do in order to feel stable.
It is possible to call God ‘Lord,’ to feel emotionally connected to faith, to do the altruistic things and still not want God.
The family you are born into is by chance and I am fortunate to be born into this family and be connected to some really cool people.
To generate creative ideas, it’s important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.
I collect crystals and gemstones, and I’ve been collecting them since I was a little girl. They give me positive energy and strength. They make me feel connected to the earth. I cherish them.
Since developing my blog and YouTube channel in 2013, Little Lights of Mine, I’ve connected with some of the most passionate people around the world.
If you want to become healthy, you have to surround yourself with a group of people that are getting healthy, and you have to be connected to a community that is doing what you want to do.
Wine is connected to abundance.
I figured if the plane goes down, I’ll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.
Thelonious Monk was one of the musicians I most connected with early on. I’m a huge Betty Carter fan, and the way that Abbey Lincoln and Shirley Horn grew immensely from the time they were young is so inspirational.
Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women.
I think that that is a wonderful format – you know, having individual stories over a period of weeks that are thematically connected in terms of genre – there’s not enough of that out there.
We’re all family at the end of the day – connected to other members of our family as adults or children.
The mobile revolution has dramatically changed our world view, empowered women, and increased our empathy. Corrupt governments have been toppled and wars avoided because our species has become so digitally connected.
Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question.
And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.
I was a lucky kid, and I grew up connected to a lot of people.
With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.
I have never connected with ‘Gone With the Wind.’ ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ leaves me cold.
I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back.
When you’re in a fighter jet and there’s a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it’s light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.
Fortunately, the music from the first record really connected with people, and I was really proud of that.
I took that time off – I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.
I think I’m connected to this issue in some capacity, football and brain damage. So carving out a way to address it tactfully is important to me no matter what I go on to do.
My mom loved road trips, and sometimes we’d drive down to North Carolina. Though my parents were separated, she wanted me to stay connected with my dad.
On Wall Street, every story becomes known so quickly. They are all so connected that everything disseminates there faster than anywhere.
New York – I’m connected. This is my core. I feel like if I’m not connected to New York, then I don’t even know what to do with myself.
I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.
People across the world are yearning to be connected to stories of hope.
There is a certain kind of fire that happens when you fall in love with a musician. I guess you understand one another because you’re connected by a creative desire.
I’ve always connected with music. Life’s not always what you see; it’s what going on in your head. Music is what comes out of your subconscious.
If you’ve got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you’re going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
We’ve got nine generations of farmers in my family, in Warwickshire. And I do feel connected to being a farmer’s son. There was a time when I didn’t, when I rebelled against it, but there’s certainly that sort of work ethic within me.
I like my messiness on stage, though I watch comics who come at a joke from every angle and I think, ‘Yeah! That’s how it’s done!’ But for me it’s the audience. If I feel connected to them, I have so much fun, and if not, it stinks.
In one way or another, everybody has this experience in their lives… the moment when you have to define your relationship to family and how your family’s made you who you are, whether you’ve spent your life running from your family or deeply connected to your family.
Pregnancy is a time for women to feel more connected with their bodies, and yet often the opposite occurs.
Among many other things, a smartphone functions as a handheld digital sensor for the physical world. In other words, we don’t necessarily need our real world things to be directly connected, when the Web interface in our mobile devices provides the network access and intelligence.
You begin to see that all of these things are connected: The kind of cuts that mean less environmental protection are also the kind of cuts that mean less musical education for the schools and that also mean more overcrowded schools.
‘Hiraeth’ means homesickness to a home to which you cannot return: the grief of the lost places of your past. I fell in love with the word and instantly connected to it. It reminded me of the days when I had left my home in Gwalior, and I had that strange pull in my stomach, and now I can so relate to this word.
I don’t know why I developed a social consciousness, but I really think I have a consciousness; I feel connected to everything and everybody in the world.
From the boardroom to the bedroom, we’re connected 24/7, yet loneliness is at an all-time high. More people are reaching for mobile devices than for the hand of someone in need. Where did our humanity go?
