“If we don't rebuild that connection with people we will really find even bigger gaps, because our gap on inequality is not just economic.” PeopleIfsEconomicConnectionsBiggerInequalityGaps Author:Hillary Clinton
“Meeting people in a genuine way and feeling like there is a vital and meaningful connection going on makes me come alive.” PeopleWayFeelingsAliveConnectionsMeetingsMeaningfulGenuineMeaningful Connections Author:Sharon Salzberg
“Transformational entertainment is a story that both entertains and uplifts you, not simply because you are inspired, but because it reveals the mechanics that allow people to have more effective, loving lives, lives of more connection, community, and communion.” PeopleStoriesCommunityConnectionsInspiredEntertainmentUpliftingLive LifeCommunionMechanicLoving Life Author:Eckhart Tolle
“I am incredibly emotionally aware and connected with other people. You know, when you come see me live, you can see that different kind of connection and that connection with what I'm saying, and the things I'm singing about. So it really is about just keeping my eyes open.” PeopleKnowsKindDifferentEyeSingingConnectionsConnectedDifferent Kinds Author:LeAnn Rimes
“There are many times when I have to remind myself that people who harm others are coming from a place of profound disconnection. It is not easy to recognize the pain such a person is in, especially because they may not be conscious of it themselves. They may present themselves to the world as just fine. If you believe human beings have a potential for deep connection, wisdom and love; the limitation in those peoples' lives becomes clearer.” PeopleIfsWorldBelieveHumansMayPersonsPainEasyHuman BeingsFineConsciousConnectionsAnd LoveProfoundHarmLimitationIf You BelieveDisconnectionDeep Connections Author:Sharon Salzberg
“Afterwards, people come and say, "I felt like you said that just to me. What you said is something I'm going through right now," so you know that spiritual connection is going on.” PeopleKnowsSaidSpiritualFeltLike YouRight NowConnectionsSpiritual Connection Author:Sandra Cisneros
“In my view, nobody is really effective in tackling those organized crime networks that are making connections from Africa to Asia to fund and facilitate the poaching of massive volumes of ivory, and then selling it on the Asian market. Very few people have tried globally to tackle that serious organized crime threat that is also linked to militia groups. That needs to change. You need to bring the full weight of government attention to dealing with that.” PeopleNeedsGovernmentViewsAttentionGroupsCrimeSeriousConnectionsWeightThreatSellingOrganizedFundMassiveVolumeAsiaLinkedAsianNeed A ChangeFacilitateMilitiaIvoryTacklingOrganized CrimePoaching Author:Allen Crawford
“There have been studies done on people who meditate and they have found that they actually have increased grey matter in certain parts of their brain and more neural conductivity, meaning more connections between certain parts of the brain. They have increased capacity for, in some cases, memory, or reasoning.” PeopleHas BeensMatterDoneCertainFoundMemoriesBrainCasesStudyCapacityConnectionsReasoningGreyGrey Matter Author:Jennifer Ashton
“Continuing to create music and perform is so important to me for many reasons. I love the interaction and connection I get with people when we perform live. Nothing is more rewarding for me.” PeopleImportantReasonConnectionsInteractionContinuing Author:Yanni
“For many people, food is a source of comfort, connection, and control.” PeopleSourceComfortConnections Author:Tony Robbins
“I'm always going to hear people make that connection and I've just accepted it. It's alright. I'm just happy that I get to do my own thing now. I learned a lot from the show [the Voice] as far as being in the TV world and being in front of the camera, which is really great because I'm not as nervous in front of the camera as I was before.” PeopleWorldShowsVoiceMy OwnFrontsTvsConnectionsCamerasAcceptedNervousReally GreatAlright Author:Melanie Martinez
“Hillary Clinton does not have a connection with her voters like Donald Trump has with his. She's got people who like her, and she's got support because she's a woman, and she has support because she's Mrs. Clinton. She has support because she's a Democrat.” PeopleDoeSupportTrumpConnectionsClintonDemocratVotersLike Her Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Music is amazing, because you get to take it into your office or your living room or wherever you get to know it, and later you bring all those personal connections into a room with thousands and thousands of people.” PeopleKnowsRoomsOfficeMusic IsConnectionsLiving RoomPersonal Connection Author:Sarah Harmer
“Family values represent the core values and guidelines that parents and family members hold in high regard for the well-being of the family. Sincere family feelings are core heart feelings. They are the basis for true family values. While we have differences, we remain family by virtue of our heart connection. Family provides necessary security and support, and acts as a buffer against external problems. A family made up of secure people generates a magnetic power that can get things done. They are the hope for real security in a stressful world.” PeopleWorldWellsHeartMadeRealDoneFeelingsProblemValuesParentDifferencesSupportVirtueSecurityMembersConnectionsBasesRegardCoreSecureWell BeingSincereThings DoneStressfulFamily MembersMagneticFamily ValuesCore ValuesGuidelinesTrue Family Author:Doc Childre
“If people are saying that somehow their connection is going to be detrimental to their health, of course they are going to reject that idea, because that's the power of falling like that.” PeopleIfsIdeasFallCoursesConnectionsRejectsDetrimental Author:Paul Dalio
“If the question is, how do we best produce business people who can succeed in the post-Great Recession era, then I think the MBA programs and their connection to large companies remains intact but it's not the path to a "Business Brilliant" life. It's a path to a middle-class existence marked by large stretches of security and comfort with occasional eruptions that you're probably ill-prepared to handle. Do I sound too cynical?” PeopleIfsThinkingSoundExistenceCompanyClassPathMiddleSecurityProduceComfortSucceedProgramConnectionsRemainsPreparedIllBrilliantHandleErasPostsMiddle ClassCynicalOccasionalRecessionsEruptionMbaLarge CompaniesGreat RecessionMba Programs Author:Lewis Schiff
“Normally, filmmakers would just write a script and cast people to act as certain characters in the story. But in my way of doing things, I have the actors in my mind already, so I'm trying to borrow something that's unique to them. The characters have a very natural connection to the actors themselves.” PeopleWayWritingTryingMindCharacterStoriesCertainActorsNaturalUniqueConnectionsScriptsCastsMy WayFilmmaker Author:Wong Kar-wai
“I was raised in a country [South Africa] with a lot of political turmoil. I was part of a culture and a generation that suppressed people and lived under apartheid regimes. I don't know how you can come out of that and not have an awareness for the world. I think that if my life had turned out any other way and I was working in a bank, I would still feel this way about it, because there's a connection to humanity that to me is really important.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWorldWayFeelsStillsImportantCountryPoliticalHumanityCultureKnow HowGenerationsAwarenessConnectionsSouthRaisedRegimesSouth AfricaTurmoilApartheidPolitical Turmoil Author:Charlize Theron
“The internet has made it possible to meet more people, make more connections and do more interesting work than would ever have been possible . It enables serendipity at an entirely new scale.” PeopleHas BeensMadeInterestingInternetConnectionsScalesMade ItSerendipity Author:Suw Charman-Anderson
“I both didn't know Owen [Suskind] beforehand and didn't have any connection to the autistic community. But Owen wasn't really a problem, because he participated in the writing of the book and wanted people to see him as he truly is. As far as the cameras, Owen lives in the moment and the cameras really didn't distract him.” PeopleKnowsWritingBookMomentsProblemWantedCommunityConnectionsCamerasLive In The MomentAutistic Author:Roger Ross Williams
“They still put you in a room with these people who apparently have no difference whether you're making a family driven show or otherwise. But I do realize it's very sad to me. This is the first film [Oz The Great] that I've done that's not R rated. It's a really weird connection.” PeopleFirstsStillsDoneShowsFilmRealizingDifferencesRoomsConnectionsDrivenVery SadReally Weird Author:Mila Kunis
“I honestly haven't seen a lot people since we wrapped, really, but it's one of those things when you don't see someone for three months and then you pick right back up where you left off. I think Twilight is very special circumstance, and a special thing to be a part of, so there's this weird connection to have.” PeopleThinkingThreeLeftSpecialHavensMonthsCircumstancesPicksConnectionsHonestlyTwilightThree MonthsSpecial Things Author:Ashley Greene
“I actually enjoy Instagram. I enjoy seeing what people who I have some connection to are doing around the globe.” PeopleEnjoySeeingConnectionsGlobesInstagram Author:Ted Leo
“There's less of a connection for a lot of people between the technical decisions we make and the ethical ramifications we are responsible for.” PeopleDecisionConnectionsResponsibleEthicalRamificationsDecisions We Make Author:Cathy O'Neil
“There's a very complex connection between crime and addiction, because a lot of people are committing crime to either fuel their drug habit, which they're going to do anyway, whether it's legal or not, or under the influence of drugs, which they're going to do more, if it's legal.” PeopleIfsInfluenceCrimeHabitDrugConnectionsComplexesAddictionFuelCommitting Crimes Author:Kevin Sabet
“I went down and spoke to some of the people who lived in the neighborhood in Miami. At the end of the day I think my connection with Tarell [Alvin McCraney] is what helped me the most.” PeopleThinkingEndsConnectionsDown AndThe End Of The DayNeighborhoodSpokesMiami Author:Andre Holland
“Sometimes the mere connection we make with each other can change people's lives. It doesn't have to be something big. The mere fact that you're interested in them makes them happy.” PeopleSometimesFactsBigsConnectionsMere Author:Chath Piersath
“The great irony to Dirk [Gently] is that he sees connections in everything, but the one thing he fails and struggles with most is connecting with other people.” PeopleStruggleFailingOne ThingConnectionsIronyConnectingDirk Gently Author:Samuel Barnett
“I believe that Hillary Clinton is one of the best prepared people in our history to enter the Oval Office, with her vision, her knowledge, her experience, her strategic thinking, her connection to the American people.” PeopleThinkingBelieveI BelieveVisionOfficeConnectionsPreparedClintonStrategicOvalStrategic Thinking Author:Nancy Pelosi
“So many people that we met had some sort of connection to the [Olympics] games. Some story about how they volunteered there, or some sort of memory of it. It still is in the cultural memory and identity of these cities as much as it is in the physical and architectural memory. It's where these two things overlap, I think, that we're trying to explore with the photos.” PeopleThinkingTryingStillsTwoStoriesGamesMemoriesCitiesIdentityMetsConnectionsTwo ThingsOlympicsOlympics Games Author:Gary Hustwit
“I love radio! I think radio, done right, can have more influence and have a greater connection with people and be more deeply meaningful than another medium like TV, which is on all the time and you're paying attention to it half the time.” PeopleThinkingDoneAttentionHalfGreaterInfluenceTvsConnectionsRadioMeaningfulMediumsPay Attention Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We may not see the connection between the name Jesus and the phrase "save his people from their sins," but Joseph would have. He was familiar with the Hebrew language.” PeopleMayJesusNamesLanguageSinConnectionsFamiliarPhrasesHebrewHebrew Language Author:Max Lucado
“Like most writers, I sit in a room and scribble a story and you don't have a connection with the people who take your story, whether it be to the stage or to the screen.” PeopleStoriesRoomsStageConnectionsScreensScribbles Author:Michael Morpurgo
“Barack Obama believes he has the same kind of connection to the American people that Trump has.” PeopleBelieveKindTrumpConnectionsBarack Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think there's a huge parallel that affects my musical taste, and connections that have to do with my ethnic diversity and my musical tastes and the diversity of that. And it's interesting that, growing up on the circuit, it posed such a challenge, not only to me deciding what my identity was amongst my peers, but then on the music side, it was like trying to explain or convince people especially in the music industry that there was a place for what I was trying to do. But at the same time, I think it has a lot to do with timing and even me, like, understanding it.” PeopleThinkingTryingUnderstandingSidesChallengesInterestingGrowing UpGrowingIdentityHugeIndustryTasteDiversityConnectionsMusicalConvinceTimingPeersParallelsMusic IndustryCircuitsMusical TasteEthnic Diversity Author:Miguel
“If Martin Luther King looked at the Obama administration and saw an intimate connection with Wall Street, he'd be very critical. If he saw drones being dropped on innocent people, he'd be very critical. If he saw rights and liberties violated by secret policies of the government, of the kind we've seen by the National Security Agency, he'd be very critical.” PeopleIfsKindGovernmentSecretLibertySawsRightsStreetsSecurityPolicyWallKingsConnectionsCriticalInnocentAdministrationIntimateAgencyNational SecurityLutherDrones Author:Cornel West
“I personally feel that there's a lot of music journalism that is dominated by genre, because you need a language in which to write, but actually the things that strike people about music, are very hard to write about, and its sonic connections, it's a sense of harmony that I think we all have even if we don't know how to express it - it's something musical, it's synapse connections in our brain.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsNeedsFeelsWritingHardLanguageBrainKnow HowConnectionsHarmonyMusicalStrikesJournalismGenre Author:Ben Watt
“Be yourself. Hillary Clinton, you have a great vision for our country. You know the policy, you have good judgment that springs from that. You're a strategic thinker, and you have a connection with the American people that springs from a lifetime of service and leadership to them, to America's working families. So, just go talk about that. Forget the script, forget everything else. Just be Hillary Clinton. Be yourself.” PeopleKnowsCountryAmericaForgetVisionPolicyJudgmentSpringConnectionsLifetimeClintonScriptsOur CountryBeing YourselfThinkerStrategicGood JudgmentForget EverythingGreat Vision Author:Nancy Pelosi
“If there's no connection between the tactic and the result you're trying to achieve, and if in the process you can damage other people who are in fact innocent in the whole situation, I think you ought to re-examine whether what you're doing makes sense.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingWholeFactsProcessResultsSituationAchieveOughtConnectionsInnocentMake SenseDamageTactics Author:Allard K. Lowenstein
“There was sort of a negative association with the military. Maybe growing up in the South or being in a family with members of the military, I didn't have that negative connotation, but I did have this 'separate' connotation. I was ashamed to realize I had it and did not realize I had it until I was [in Iraq]. I was so impressed by the people I met over there and there was just a sense of connection and gratitude towards those people.” PeopleRealizingGrowing UpGrowingMilitaryGratitudeMetsMembersNegativeConnectionsSouthIraqAshamedAssociationImpressedConnotation Author:Stephen Colbert
“Love is definitely a foundation, a spiritual connection that makes peace. Also it is the change in the world. People don't get so hung up on it any more as they used to. They feel that it can be secondary in some instances.” PeopleWorldFeelsSpiritualUsedLove IsConnectionsFoundationInstanceHungMaking PeaceSpiritual Connection Author:Tina Turner
“[People] feel a connection to a guy like Omar Mateen. But they clearly are not angry at him.” PeopleFeelsGuyConnectionsAngryOmar Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Separation happens in so many different dimensions. We see it everywhere. I believe we are all part of the spiritual heart. We all come from that place of oneness, so that place in us that knows love, that knows connection, hurts. It's a challenge that we also feel more than any other time because it's in the news and social media. It's in our families. There is division with people in our lives, as well as political division and religious division.” PeopleKnowsFeelsBelieveWellsHeartDifferentHappensSpiritualPoliticalI BelieveSocialChallengesHurtReligiousOur LivesMediaNewsConnectionsSocial MediaSeparationOnenessOur FamilyDimensionsDivisionDifferent DimensionsPeople In Our Lives Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos
“Hillary Clinton doesn't have any natural talents. Hillary doesn't have any natural connection to people. Hillary doesn't have any charisma, magnetism. All of that has to be manufactured by the media.” PeopleNaturalTalentMediaConnectionsClintonCharismaMagnetismNatural Talent Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Declaration of Independence was only partially applied for women and for certain immigrants such as the Chinese. And it wasn't applied to get rid of corporate welfare and cronyism. People who had special connections got special deals from the beginning. So all of those violations of what the Declaration of Independence expressed, have led to the problems we have today. So, the sins of the fathers are visited upon the sons for seven generations, or much longer. Forever.” PeopleProblemTodayCertainFatherSinDealsForeverGenerationsSpecialSonConnectionsIndependenceSevenChineseCorporateWelfareImmigrantsDeclarationViolationDeclaration Of IndependenceCronyism Author:Charles Koch
“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.” PeopleThinkingKnowsRunningLawInfluenceMembersOfficeConnectionsLegislature Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“As a young lawyer, I learned to try to find common ground with people, to look for a human connection. When I got to the Senate, despite the fact that there were a lot of people who didn't want me to get there - and were sure they'd never even talk to me, let alone work with me - I really tried to do the job I was sent there to do by the people of New York, which was to get things done for my constituents. I worked with Republicans, and we found a lot of common ground. It isn't easy, but it's part of what we have to do in politics today.” PeopleWantTryingHumansLooksDoneFactsTodayJobsYoungFoundEasyCommonNew YorkRepublicanConnectionsLawyerDespiteSenateWant MeThings DoneTalk To MeConstituentsCommon GroundHuman ConnectionPolitics Today Author:Hillary Clinton
“I was raised in a completely black world. In those days, if a white woman married a black man, she lived as a black woman, and that was just the end of it. So, I don't have a feeling of being bi-racial. I don't have a connection to it. People often come up to me thinking I do have a connection to it, and I kind of let them down because I really don't.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenWorldKindEndsFeelingsBlackWhiteMarriedConnectionsRaisedCome UpBlack Women Author:Shelby Steele
“If we look at the last decades, we see that the US rightist-fundamentalist alliance demonized partnership-oriented families and painted women's rights as a threat to "tradition" - which of course it is to traditions of domination. These people had an integrated political agenda that recognizes that a "traditional" authoritarian, male dominated, punitive family is foundational to an authoritarian, male dominated, punitive politics. We can see this connection in sharp relief in brutal top-down regimes, be they secular like Nazi Germany or religious like ISIS in the Middle East.” PeopleIfsLooksLastsPoliticalCoursesReligiousRightsMiddleTraditionConnectionsThreatMalesEastDecadesTraditionalGermanyReliefAgendasRegimesMiddle EastPartnershipBrutalSecularWomens RightsNaziDominationIsisAlliancesIntegratedFundamentalistNazi GermanyTop DownPolitical Agendas Author:Riane Eisler
“When I go onstage, I'm going to work ...I feel like my performance is about an emotional connection. I want to connect with people, whether it's like a romantic song or a happy song.” PeopleWantFeelsSongEmotionalConnectionsPerformancesGoing To WorkEmotional Connection Author:Boy George