Technology has changed how people communicate, how people relate, the speed at which this takes place. To ignore that, in the name of preaching the Word, is to forget that we’re to preach the Word to people.
I think a lot of us can relate to not choosing to face a painful memory, and something that’s a painful past, and wanting to pretend like it never happened.
Comedy is a tool to be used so that people can relate to each other.
I think that the best music and the music that people relate to the most is the honest music that people feel themselves in it.
I’m fascinated by failure, and I’m fascinated by finality. Shakespeare’s historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.
When you have controversial parents, people have expectations about you. If every day at work I thought to myself, ‘How does this relate to them?’ I’d be paralyzed.
It’s very special that I can go through things – and write them down and record them – and so many people can relate. Not everybody can get out who they are and really feel better after they write.
The seminary of the future must relate itself to flesh-and-blood men, or it provides a framework that only talks about the people of God but never really shares life with them.
My image lends itself a little bit more to the modern fan, sometimes more toward the kids, and I guess more toward the wine drinkers… I mean, I have my own wine, and fans love to pull for people they relate to.
I think why people relate to ‘Star Wars’ is George Lucas is so brilliant at telling these stories that we relate to, but in such a fantastic environment with fantastic characters and things you want to believe in this story.
As a Colombian, the only way I can relate to my country is through suffering. I hope that my children and my grandchildren will relate to the beautiful country in a way that it is positive and loving.
To see yourself, and for others to see you, is a form of validation. I’m interested in that very mysterious and mystical way we relate to each other in the world.
I write for myself; I’m trying to keep myself interested in the music. But at the same time, I want to make the songs relatable in a way; I want to keep melodies pretty simple and the lyrics open-ended so that people could maybe relate them to their own life in different ways. Something for everybody to have a piece of.
There’s the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people’s lives, things that had really happened.
The better I get at writing songs, the harder it seems to be to relate to people. But when I get on stage, I’m extremely happy.
I want to suggest a feeling. It’s ridiculous to assume you can state an opinion. Somebody else can never relate to the lyric in the same way because their whole experience is different. You can only suggest, then people add their own history and experience to the lyrics.
I don’t relate to that angst-y kid who hates their parents because they were horrible. It’s just not my life and it’s not the life of a lot of my friends.
I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each other.
It’s not my concern to make a commercial pop record. I want to make a record of music that I would listen to, that is lyrically rich and has songs that people can relate to – more along the Jakob Dylan route: people who create for the art of it and not necessarily the monetary rewards of it.
People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.
It’s very easy to relate to a kid who is having trouble in high school… less so to relate to a billionaire whose Lamborghini broke down.
Any female of any age, anyone sitting on that couch, is going to relate to some Bella family member.
Good television people have a sense of what television people relate to.
It’s been exciting to share my story for people to relate to me and reach out.
I believe Israel needs branding. I want that the word ‘Israel’ will relate not just to an Israeli soldier or a camel, but Israel as an advanced liberal society with a strong economy and great people.
I enjoy a character who sticks to her guns, who’s always challenging herself. That’s something I can relate to.
As a kid, I just felt like I didn’t really have anyone to look up to that I felt like I could really relate to, someone that was out and gay and also competing in sports and finding success.
I generally like grey roles. My interpretation of drama is different from the popular perception. Acting, for me, is not about overplaying, it is about concealing. I like flawed characters that people relate to. I would never do a romcom.
I feel I am a role model to many, not just for my designs, but also for the fact that I started my own company with the help of my two friends. I became a success story, and people relate to that.
What I like about fairy tales is that they highlight the emotions within a story. The situations aren’t real, with falling stars and pirates. But what you do relate to is the emotions that the characters feel.
Where I grew up in the North-east, the community there, and the way people relate to one another, goes very deep. But I don’t define myself as a Northerner in that I don’t live in the North.
I hope that it can relate to and be a blessing to anybody, with the hope that someday they will find Jesus Christ to be the same God that I’ve found Him to be.
Most people are sort of against authority. Here’s Beetle always challenging authority. I think people relate to it.
I’m not going to be the artist that talks about a million dollar whip and ‘I just bought some red bottoms.’ That’s cool, but that’s not all there is to it. I’d rather talk about something everyone can relate to and feel.
Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you’re communicating with people, and you’re not in a void. On the other hand, because you’re always creating and transforming, art always separates you – always.
For the most part, it is really nice when people come up to me, because I do think that people who are awkward relate to me, and that’s really nice. It’s generally good.
I think it’s all about how much you love, understand and can relate to the material you are given.
Who can’t relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?
After ‘Sea Hawks,’ television became very strange for me, I could not relate to the stories that were being shown on TV.
Whenever I perform, people get me because I’m talking about things that people can identify with and relate to. I’m not just up there doing jokey, jokey, joke.
Don’t take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.
The one thing people like about my show is it’s universal. Everybody can relate to it. I think people enjoy going to a show and saying, ‘Something like that happened to me.’
Even if you can’t relate to what I’m singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as something that it is real.
Most artists are going into the studio for a fixed period of time, and they say that’s their album. I can’t relate, because I’ve never made music in that way. I come from a culture of editing and remixing.
I did two master’s degrees – aeronautics and astronautics, and the second one was technology and policy. That taught me how to think about issues in science and technology as they relate to the general public.
When I’m picking songs for an album I always want a song that I can relate to and that I have experienced. There’s nothing worse than watching an artist try and sell a song that isn’t believable coming from them.
The music is going to die if you don’t tap into something that people today can relate to.
When I write a team book, it’s all about how they relate to each other and what they bring to the team and the book. Whether it’s Black Canary and Huntress or Bane and Scandal, I look for a relationship that people can believe in, that they want to follow and learn more about.
I like any song that can tell a story that people can relate to.
‘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 have never planned my career. I chose those films with which I could relate myself. But if given a chance, I would love to do the kind of roles Meryl Streep has done.
To write convincingly, I think you must be able to relate, in some way, to what a character is experiencing.
I just didn’t really relate to Kurt Cobain. There was nothing very glamorous about him.
I think Donald knows climate change is a serious threat – but he only cares about protecting his luxury coastal properties, not the rest of America. Observing his actions as they relate to his business interests offers the best insight into the man behind the bluster.
Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.
