Top 1200 Personal Connection Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I think community and connection with people around us - and feeling that we belong - is really valuable.

I know it sounds crazy, but I have had far more connection with my parents after their deaths.

Occasionally ask, "What is the connection between what I want most in life and anything I plan to do today?

We live in a world where many of us have a lot of friends on Facebook but yet we have lost human connection.

When somebody comes up to you and shows you yellow underlining of something you wrote, that's such a high. It's a connection to others.

Music is like church to me. It's as spiritual a connection as I just about ever make.

I have always felt a connection between daily life and art...my reality has been my key.

In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.

I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken.

Hedda Hopper was a better direct opponent to [Dalton] Trumbo. We wanted to use Trumbo's battles to represent the larger battles, so the audience could understand the personal sacrifice he went through and the personal damage to his family. The choices were about who were the best representations of his antagonists, which is why we chose as we did.

Good conversation turns me on. A connection between two people, a mental one first.

In Scripture, when something is repeated, especially a name, it shows an emotional connection, a deeper sense of meaning.

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!

Basically, we've grown up very focused on the institution. The institution tells me what to do. It tells me where to go. It tells me what my career path is, and then I, sort of, attach my own personal desires, my own personal interests. I think we're living in a time where we're going to have to change - to put people in the center.

Whether it is seen in personal terms or trans-personal terms, whether it is Heaven or Nirvana or Happy Hunting Ground or the Garden of Paradise, the weight and authority of tradition maintains that death is just an alteration in our state of consciousness, and that the quality of our continued existence in the afterlife depends on the quality of our living here and now.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

In one sense, you put a lot of yourself into a small press - it's your personal tastes that are on the line - so when criticism is levelled it can feel personal. But, on the other hand, it can be very welcome and necessary. You're never entirely impervious, and one of the main benefits of being a small operation is that you can change the way you do things quickly in response to criticism. In all instances it pays to have a sense of humour and perspective.

I want to be talked about for the films I am doing rather than a party I attended, the dress I wore, and the men I may have met and dated. In any case, by and large I think I have spoken about more for the profession I am in than my personal life. That's the way I like it because frankly, I don't really have a personal life to begin with.

I have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much.

I think a healthy connection with the natural world actually makes us more human.

We often see a temper of the times connection, and it's just like a fairy tale. It's not true.

People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection.

I've always seen my work as trying to make the connection with men who no one really spends time with.

I've learned that even the word 'jubilee' used in connection with the Reformation can give rise to discussions.

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.

Love is truly eternal and lasts forever. It is the core of our connection and expression of life.

If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.

The Rastafari culture has a very strong connection to Haile Selassie, a descendant of King Solomon.

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

I think that the audience feels a real connection with Zoe Kazan because she's so instantly lovable.

Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.

In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.

Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The fact that they enjoy their acts does not count as gain. Rather, it is a condition of their character. The average man acts only if there is a chance for profit. Warriors say they act not for profit but for the spirit.

There's certainly a loss of connection with folks on the ground who I care for and love and I want to spend time with.

Own every note I sing and sell it. Make a connection to the audience. That's what it comes down to, you know?

As I grew up, I became aware that there are people with special needs out there, and I have a real connection with them.

The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind.

In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved

Get into something that's really personal that means something to you, where you have something to say and is something really individualized. I wish I was more aware of that when I started my career instead of doing a few things I was told would be good for me. And they weren't, because it left me empty, so I didn't do a good job anyways. I think that's what's key to what we do: It's got to be personal.

Let go of who you think you should be in order to be who you are. Be imperfect and have compassion for yourself. Connection is the result of authenticity.

Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament; You give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you're giving, you're not giving to the other person; you're giving to the relationship.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

The Founding Fathers were more deists. If you had to categorize them as anything. There was some sort of moving prime force. But it's an impersonal force. Some people call it Nature. Certainly not this personal god who you have a personal relationship with, who listens to your prayers and answers them, or doesn't. You know, not the silly stuff that most Americans believe because we're such a dumb nation.

My fans are who I am. You give meaning to my life. You will never know the connection I feel to you.

The one thing that gives you faith is the fact that people can be apart physically but they can still have an emotional connection.

...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.

There are three qualities a leader must exemplify to build trust: competence, connection, and character.

Business is very personal. For me, everything is extremely personal. With actors, the fact that I write helps, because when you say to an actor "Oh I want you to do it a little bit more ...," without saying what you want more of, then the actor doesn't know what to do. But if you can put into words exactly what you want, then the experience of writing is helpful with that.

I'm not joining in personal attacks... I don't do personal attacks.

My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.

My personal life was my personal life and no one's business.

It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can help others. It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can be helped in a lasting way.

In terms of establishing a connection between a therapist and a patient, that work needs to be done in person.

I made the connection between food and weight, but feeling good or bad was a separate issue.

I think the political is personal, and the personal is political.

I've surfed the Web and the whole dating connection. I find that pretty fascinating, but no real leads.

Certain small ways and observances sometimes have connection with large and more profound ideas.

The fact that Maurice Sendak said, "This is something that I made at your age, this was something that was personal to me, and now you need to take it and make something that's personal to you." I don't know, but we made the Where The Wild Things Are movie that we set out to make, and Maurice loves it. If Maurice was anxious about it, then I would be petrified.

Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.

I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films. I got grants from NYSCA and NEA for an idea, which later became 'Huckabees,' about a guy in a Chinese restaurant who had microphones on every table and heard every personal conversation and would write perversely personal fortunes.