Scandal rarely toured after those first few hits. I want to go out and sing and connect with fans who may have never seen us live.
Impact sourcing, a new initiative piloted by the Rockefeller Foundation and several key partners, including my company Samasource, promises to connect poor and marginalized people to digital jobs on a massive scale.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
It’s a unique thing, and it’s probably the thing I love most about songs and music – their ability to connect in a human way.
I know there are a lot of musicians and a lot of artists, and there are a lot of writers and other people who inspire young people, but I’d like to see somebody in political life be able to connect and make these choices that we need to make in Washington real in terms of people’s lives.
Probably above all other things, I am interested as a writer in making a connection, interested in the parts of all of us that connect.
By cultivating rich social networks, by cultivating weak ties, not just close ties but the weak ties, by becoming connectors and by connecting others so that they connect us, we create a world in which these self-amplifying feedback loops feed on top of each other.
I love Instagram – I don’t actually go on Twitter and tweet; I just connect it through my Instagram account. I think it’s a good way of getting stuff out there and connecting with people.
I guess I’m trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to.
Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level – but I’m not a fan of contemporary Christian music.
I want more Internet. I want every one of the 6 billion people on the planet to be able to connect to the Internet – I think they will add things to it that will really benefit us all.
When a buyer leaves a negative review, it is a great opportunity to connect and find out why they did and how to make your business better.
I didn’t think I was helping other people. But I think that comes hand in hand with trying to be able to connect with people, and if you make things too personal, then it’s harder for people to relate to you. Otherwise, it’s just them listening to you read your diary.
You just do the best you can, and when you’re able to connect with people, and when you do, it’s just incredibly gratifying.
We don’t have a free market in health care. We need to connect customers up with the cost of care. And to drive innovation that way.
Everybody goes through a lot of the same things, and I talk about those, and that’s the key. You have to connect with your audience, and I might take them on a trip with me, tell them I went here and I went there and they’ll go with me, you know, to hear the stories.
Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.
The biggest abuses in society happen when people are not able to communicate and not able to connect.
I just play, that’s all. When I’m in the field, I always connect with what I’m doing. I can’t explain it. I can’t control it. It just happens.
Univision’s close-to-50-year relationship with Hispanics makes us one of the leading media brands in this country and the gateway to connect with this consumer.
What really keeps me grounded is my fans and the way that I connect with them.
Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.
Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth… these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women’s empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.
As technology evolves, it manipulates our culture, and there’s a huge opportunity to push ourselves further. I think it actually makes ourselves maybe more human, or at least human in a different way, that we can connect together in amazingly different ways and powerful new ways.
Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, ‘It’s whatever you want it to be’ – because I think that’s their intention, to connect with each person’s subconscious, and not to try and dictate.
The book ‘Do You!’ is about your inner voice. And when you connect to that voice then you – then the freedom comes. And we’re only here to be happy. So happy makes money. Money doesn’t make happy.
People complain not because something sucks. People complain because they’re looking for empathy and to feel connected with those around them. Unfortunately, complaining is maybe the least useful way to connect with other human beings.
I don’t know if we’re doing the optimal things that we can to try and connect different people on the planet with different points of view and not be so angry at each other.
All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.
There’s a huge shift in the way we connect with people as humans in the technology age versus right before that, when we still had a little bit of mystery.
The more aware of your intentions and your experiences you become, the more you will be able to connect the two, and the more you will be able to create the experiences of your life consciously. This is the development of mastery. It is the creation of authentic power.
All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga’s meat dress.
I am on Facebook, but it’s mainly for friends and family, so it’s not my real name. But I am on Twitter a lot. I resisted it for so long, but I love it because I get to connect with people I look up to – actors, comedians, and singers.
I couldn’t connect with people so I developed other senses. I had no other option.
Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.
At the end of the day, stories connect us, not politics. And there’s so many stories out there waiting to be told. It’s just a matter of who’s out there listening.
My brain gets about 10 things going on at once and the wires don’t connect. They all go, ‘It’s the drugs,’ and it’s not. I have been like this all my life.
I always wanted a family environment, a community where a creator like myself could connect and vibe with other creators without feeling competitive.
The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic, blonde actress with the funny voice.
People tell me they use my song ‘Coming Home’ at their weddings. My audience seems to range from young to old, and it’s cool when you really get to connect with all different people.
I do a film if it interests me, has a connect with the audience and some entertainment value. The rest doesn’t matter.
Your intuition will tell you where you need to go; it will connect you with people you should meet; it will guide you toward work that is meaningful for you – work that brings you joy, work that feels right for you.
After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on the computer, looking for ‘adaptive snowboarders’ or ‘snowboard legs’ or ‘adaptive snowboard schools’ or just something that I could connect to. I already knew how to snowboard – I just needed to find the right legs.
Everybody needs to find their own path and the best way for themselves to connect to this world.
When I’m singing, I connect the dots with notes.
I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.
Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.
I don’t believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles – concentric circles that connect.
Adolescents show off. That’s another way of wanting to connect with people. It’s not an aspect of human behavior that we generally consider to be very admirable, but it is, in some way, a means of connecting with someone else and not being alone.
I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
Music is a lot more powerful than anyone gives it credit for. I can sing something right now and make you feel something that you would not feel if I said it. If somebody can sing and connect to people just through voice, just through sonics, capturing an emotion, that’s a direct string to somebody’s soul.
Our ability to connect as a nation with other nations around the world is enhanced dramatically by the Internet.
You know, when I put out records that may not work or connect with the audience, it’s because I’m pushing myself as an artist creatively, because I’m just bored doing what everyone wants me to do.
We are one of the largest enterprise app developers in the world as well as very active in the Internet of Things through our connected platform. So we could connect people to people, device to device, machine to machine, almost everything with everything.
