I always like things that shrink the world for me, that make me feel a strange connection, not just to the person that I’m listening to but to the world.
Wherever I am, it’s a really good feeling to have that connection to people. I love to go out to talk to people and be with folks. I don’t shy away from it.
The thing that inspires me most is empathizing with people’s flaws and seeing how they deal with them. That sort of connection you feel with someone when you realize that maybe even the negative things that they’ve said or done are because of insecurities or injuries they’ve endured.
The Holy Ghost is the minister and messenger of the Father and the Son, and He testifies of both Their glorious, global reality and Their connection to us personally.
Even though other people wrote my songs I put my stamp on them. I have a connection, but there is no truer connection than an artists and their own song.
By the time I was 16, I was someone to reckon with. I was so eager to repudiate any connection with any immigrant race, I would go above and beyond. I was desperate to belong to something. That was my drive as a teenager.
You can sustain visual beauty and innovative visual ideas for a certain length of time, but in a two-hour experience, which is really what movies are, usually audiences – whether they know it or not – most want an emotional connection to character.
When we read a book, we have a blurry image that’s kind of physical but blurry. But we have an emotional image also. We have an emotional connection to the character.
The key is that I’m trying to keep growing and trying to keep learning and deepen my connection in every way, in my life, in my work. That’s what I do when I look at a role.
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
I’ve studied pathological liars, and anything they say, they believe, and that’s one of the reasons they’re so convincing, because they have no connection with the truth. It’s a dead issue. It’s like they’re color-blind to the truth. So anything that comes out of their mouths is their reality.
Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them.
Many theaters are tackling the multifaceted work of black writers – established and emerging. Now the next step is for them to bring in audiences of color and continue to go out to our community and create a continuous connection that extends beyond the one black show in the season.
Well, your premise is correct, that we have to first guard against those who have an affiliation with terrorists and a connection, and so we have watch lists and systems that can make that connection.
My thoughts about God are vague and abstract. My connection with the energy of the universe is shaky.
Japan and Hawaii enjoy a special connection, and I want to honor this enduring relationship.
Stand-up will always come first. I’ve been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It’s euphoric.
I feel that the Jews have always had a special connection to this part of the world, which in geographical terms was called Palestine for so many centuries.
In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.
I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.
I have lived most of my life in Paris, but I have a connection with Rome that I have with no other place. I’m attached by invisible strings.
Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children’s growth and development, and in a parent’s connection with their children.
You don’t have to do the picture, you have to do the autograph, but it’s important to take that moment to make a human connection.
I lost my father when I was 13 years old. He was a great man, my father, and very intelligent. I love him very much. I believe it’s very important that parents have a personal connection with their children. It helps kids feel more secure, have a feeling of family, makes them feel loved.
I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it’s changed so that every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don’t know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something.
I’m into old-time music; I’m not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I’m really into some particular old-time musician, some fiddler or banjo player, I’m always dying of curiosity to see what they look like. So there’s some connection between visual images and music.
Once you start playing a piece, there is a connection between every note. You cannot say, ‘I will not concentrate on this note.’ You cannot ignore things the way you do in the rest of your life.
The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large.
I do actually have a connection with James Herriot because we went to school in the same area. I went to Hillhead Primary School in the West End of Glasgow and he went to Hillhead Secondary.
As I grew up, I became aware that there are people with special needs out there, and I have a real connection with them.
I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
The times in my life I’ve felt the most alive is when I’m having a connection with people. We need to hack cities in a way to bring back that community culture.
What interests me is the connection between maths and the real world.
I’m not sure I would make a direct connection between having press attention as a young person and being interested in the media as an older person. I came to it more organically, coming from a family of Irish Catholic storytellers. Storytelling is a pastime and important part of my family’s history and culture.
What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.
I’ve been in Los Angeles for a while, and the kind of psychological connection that one makes to people, it just doesn’t happen out here.
I want everything to be an honest extension of me. What better way than me talking? It’s a direct connection with everyone. With film and television, you make great projects, but stand-up is the thing that is completely yours.
I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there’s already so much narcissism flowing in this industry, I was like, ‘Really, one more?’ So I was against it at first. But I really love the idea of the direct connection – there’s no middle man muddling it up.
Own every note I sing and sell it. Make a connection to the audience. That’s what it comes down to, you know?
You spend money on Internet connection for your employees. Why not spend money on the energy that fuels their brains?
People look at me, and I dress a little unusually and they think, ‘Oh you must be from California.’ Of course, people in California think, ‘Oh you must be from from Mars,’ so, you know, your next-door neighbour is not necessarily the person that you are going to make a connection with.
When I performed at ‘Open Mic U.K.’ I had this connection with the audience that I’d never felt before, and I loved it. It was my first big thing, and looking out into the crowd… was just amazing.
The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.
I could care less about the radio or the TV or album sales. I want that connection with people because when I’m able to walk down the street, I want them to feel like I’ve done something for them and helped their life because I’ve never felt that way about a musician.
Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.
Abortions can be, and frequently are, traumatizing, as are other invasive surgeries performed to the sexual and internal organs. All or any of these ‘violations’ can cause loss of vitality, diminished capacity for erotic connection and pleasure, and other symptoms of trauma.
It is very important to have connection with your soul and open your heart to people.
In these increasingly self-focused times, emotional connection through food remains perhaps more than ever, the vital glue that holds us together or helps us reconnect with something we lost.
I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past.
I respect religion in general. I respect a lot, but I don’t follow any religion. You know, I just follow my personal connection with God. For me, God is inside my heart and is inside everyone’s heart.
Finding ballet gave me passion for the first time in my life. I was always very shy and just wanted to fit in; I never daydreamed about what I wanted to be when I grew up. But dancing gave me a connection to my personality that made me grow.
