My favorite word was a word James Lapine used repeatedly in ‘Sunday in the Park with George,’ which was the word ‘connect.’ All I want to do is connect.
Good leaders need to be able to connect to all of those around them. This is especially true at Whole Foods, where we have a very team-oriented culture.
We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex.
When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.
You can’t be a human and a guy and not connect with Pippin… I often feel like Pippin. I come offstage sometimes like ‘Oh my God, I’ve got to do this next time! I’ve gotta go there. I’m going to make this choice.’
One of the things novels should do is shine a light on those parts of us that are common, the fibres that connect all of us. They should convey the sense that we’re all connected, coming from the same tree, sharing common roots.
As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe.
I make sure to use both Twitter and Facebook a lot which helps me connect to the fans.
People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.
There’s never been anything I didn’t love that I didn’t connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.
When Spotify launched in the U.S. in 2011, it relied on simple usage-based algorithms to connect users and music, a process known as ‘collaborative filtering.’ These algorithms were more often annoying than useful.
As a teenager, I didn’t want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.
I started tweeting with the first film I directed. I found it the best way to promote it and to connect to the audience, and since then, it’s been very helpful.
Music is something that is supposed to connect people on a pure level.
I feel what a spouse can do for you, no child or parent can. Just that if you get the right connect with your spouse, you get it going right.
And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.
That’s the secret to anything we write. You have to bring your experience to it. Otherwise, how do you expect anyone else to connect to it?
If you’re very introverted, you prefer to spend much of your time alone, and when you do connect, you’d rather get together with one or two close friends than face a crowd.
Ultimately, what we do as musicians, I think of us as a type of emotional engineer. We essential take these sound waves, this sound, and we organize it into emotion, and that’s how we connect with our audiences.
I think I have always tried to connect my comedy to my art.
There are a lot of different demands on the campaign trail, but what matters most is that you connect with voters and take the time to really hear their concerns.
Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.
Especially today, with the Internet, you have people who have best friends that they never met, with Facebook and Twitter and stuff. If you’re really friends, it doesn’t matter if I’m on the other side of the world. We’ll still be friends and find a way to connect.
I love Lauryn Hill, Tracy Chapman, Fiona Apple. People like that. People you can really connect to on the most basic human level.
I don’t want dogs that have had the personality trained out of them. It’s a partnership. I want to connect.
Our main aim globally is to connect more women to the economy because we know there is a specific market failure there: women are having more difficulty in business than men.
You have to connect your work to what people are doing. A good way is to construct a bridge between theory and practice – Amartya Sen and I tried this by founding the Human Development and Capabilities Association where practitioners meet theoreticians and their discourse influences practice.
I am the first to admit my iPad is the coolest thing in the world, but when we can be in a room together and really connect, or leave the gadgets home and go for a hike, then I’m happy.
The ‘SheTrades’ programme aims to connect one million women entrepreneurs to markets by 2020 with a campaign, a focussed networking app, and a range of international and national information resources.
I’m a middle-aged dad, which means I have no social time or life to speak of, and so I connect with my buddies with my Xbox.
My mom’s whole life had been my gymnastics. We struggled to connect when I stopped.
When you’re still in the broadcast business, you’re still trying to reach tens of millions. You’re trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that’s a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.
We’re living in a time, unfortunately, where, you know, a lot of young men, particularly young men of color, being raised by single mothers. And their mothers so desperately want to connect with them, but I found, in talking with a lot of young men, that sometimes it’s difficult.
My family and I cook at home almost every day together. The kitchen is the central and most important room in the house; it’s a great way for us to connect. We love going to the farmer’s market on Sundays as a family and choosing the ingredients together.
I love going on book tours because it’s an opportunity to connect with the people that matter most to my brand.
My biggest problem with organized religion is that God has been imagined as a human being with emotions. I feel if you let go of that, then it’s possible to see God as a force, to connect to him or her spiritually.
I’d say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.
I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.
What I get really excited about are movies that I connect with emotionally. ‘Deliverance’ was on TV, and they don’t really make movies like that anymore, just simple and scary. The truly scary thing is, ‘I’m going to threaten your life, I’m going to threaten the people you love. What are you going to do about it?’
RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.
Some of the material out there – I don’t want to say that it’s all bad – but there’s a lot of bad stuff out there. You just continue reading scripts, and eventually you find something you connect with.
Sometimes I don’t go into the studio for quite a while because I haven’t found enough good songs. They have to have a certain caliber and connect with me because I’m going to be playing them for the rest of my life. I start off with a circle of friends whose songs I love anyway.
That’s always something that’s really important for an actor – to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone.
Virtual reality is a technology that could actually allow you to connect on a real human level, soul-to-soul, regardless of where you are in the world.
Our cinema has evolved in last 60 years because we have made people happy through our films. The main purpose of our storyline is to spread happiness. Our cinema has an emotional connect.
I connect music to the emotions that come from relationships, so most of the songs that I write are inspired by those circumstances, emotions, feelings, all that kind of stuff.
We want to connect all these musical worlds together. We just improvise; we know straight away if its going to work or not. They’re not covers – I hate the word cover. We do a transcription: mix it up, put our own spin on it. I think people will be surprised how powerful our show is.
I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
Now, we connect via Skype or Google+ Hangout and see our friends’ and loved ones’ faces live.
I prefer to connect with fans from the stage. Like, I don’t have a Twitter page, or anything like that. So for me, that’s what the show is about. For me – is a way to interact with fans; being up onstage and showing them, through music – which is all I really know – the best way to say thank you.
I firmly believe that emotions are universal, and I know that when they connect with the audience, it works. There is no such thing as an entertaining or a serious film; there are good films and bad films. Good films will always find a vast audience.
You have got to connect your land use decisions with transportation decisions.
We try to connect with the audience as much as we can. We feel the energy from the audience, and it gives us so much joy and inspiration.
