“So I'm always inspired by my fellow actors. And that's kind of a constant for me. I have huge respect for our profession and our craft. And I seek in my work to create connections, first for me with the character and then the character with the other actors, and then ultimately, all of us together connecting with the audience in a way that sometimes is subliminal, even.” WayFirstsKindSometimesCharacterTogetherActorsAudienceHugeConnectionsFellowsConstantInspiredProfessionCraftsConnectingSubliminal Author:Glenn Close
“I like women who have an opinion one way or the other or who have a great sense of humor and a great sense of adventure. I can be friends with women who are not like that, but I don't have that hard emotional connection.” WayI CanHardOpinionEmotionalAdventureConnectionsOne WaySense Of HumorEmotional Connection Author:Kristen Stewart
“I think there's a real connection between acting and writing novels because the way I write characters has a little bit to do with the method acting that I was taught in high school and college.” ThinkingWayWritingLittlesRealCharacterSchoolBitsActingNovelTaughtCollegeLittle BitHigh SchoolConnectionsMethodMethod ActingReal Connection Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“What makes me feel alive is community, connectedness. Certainly family, parenting, relationships, friendship. All the way into colleague relationships and relationship with spirit, relationship with one's own self and inner child, and animals, earth, planet. Fostering and nurturing and really focusing on connection - connection in relationship with other and my own self and God. When I don't feel connected in all those three areas, life is not very good.” WayFeelsChildrenSelfEarthLife IsSpiritThreeCommunityMy OwnAnimalAlivePlanetsAreasConnectionsVery GoodConnectedColleaguesNurturingConnectednessInner ChildRelationships With OthersFostering Author:Alanis Morissette
“In our highly mediated, technologically driven world, we're all looking for meaningful ways to connect. This has constantly inspired me to create environments full of lively, immersive, experiential elements specifically crafted to foster human connection.” WorldWayHumansEnvironmentElementsConnectionsInspiredDrivenMeaningfulLivelyHuman Connection Author:David Rockwell
“In the same way, the world is not the sum of all the things that are in it. It is the infinitely complex network of connections among them. As in the meanings of words, things take on meaning only in relationship to each other.” WorldWayConnectionsComplexesMeanings Of Words Book:The Invention of Solitude Source: The Invention of Solitude
“You're trying to make the language work, and your subconscious is being allowed to make the deeper, more profound connections. It's much better than going at it all frontally. But you can't conjure it in an intellectual way; it has to come out of another engagement, a more intuitive engagement. Revision is where the intellectual, analytical work happens. At least for me.” WayTryingHappensLanguageIntellectualConnectionsProfoundDeeperEngagementSubconsciousIntuitiveRevision Author:Dana Spiotta
“"Hello" is always presented as a linear narrative, a singular chain, sometimes in a loop. But the reality of making it is that connections are naturally sprawling all over the place, so I am free to edit any way I want.” WayWantSometimesRealityConnectionsChainsNarrativeHelloEditsLinearLoops Author:Aleksandra Mir
“Sometimes I felt lonely because I pushed people away for so long that I honestly didn't have many close connections left. I was physically isolated and disconnected from the world. Sometimes I felt lonely in a crowded room. This kind of loneliness pierced my soul and ached to the core. I not only felt disconnected from the world, but I also felt like no one ever loved me. Intellectually, I knew that people did, but I still felt that way.” PeopleWorldWayKindLongStillsSoulSometimesLeftFeltRoomsLonelinessLonelyConnectionsHonestlyCoreMy SoulIsolatedCrowdedDisconnected Author:Jenni Schaefer
“The important element is the way in which all things are connected. Every thought and action sends shivers of energy into the world around us, which affects all creation. Perceiving the world as a web of connectedness helps us to overcome the feelings of separation that hold us back and cloud our vision. This connection with all life increases our sense of responsability for every move, every attitude, allowing us to see clearly that each soul does indeed make a difference to the whole.” WorldWayDoeImportantSoulWholeHelpingFeelingsActionMovingEnergyDifferencesAttitudeVisionCreationElementsAll ThingsConnectionsOvercomingIncreaseCloudsConnectedSeparationMaking A DifferenceAllowingConnectednessShiverThoughts And ActionsResponsability Author:Emma Restall Orr
“The climate system is constantly readjusting naturally in a large way - more than we would ever see from CO2. The CO2 kick [impact of CO2 emissions] is extremely small compared to what is happening in a natural way. Within the framework of a proper study of the sun-climate connection, you don't need CO2 to explain anything.” WayNeedsNaturalSunStudyHappeningsConnectionsImpactClimateKicksFrameworkEmissionsCo2Co2 Emissions Author:Willie Soon
“When you hug someone you want it to be a masterpiece of connection, the way the button on his coat will leave the imprint of a planet in my cheek when I walk away.” WayWantWalksPlanetsConnectionsCheeksHugButtonsCoatsMasterpiece Book:Willingly: Poems Source: Willingly: Poems
“Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.” WorldWayGivingSelfWholeFormOpportunityLevelsMeditationOrdinaryConnectionsDeeperFishingCommunionGood WayFunny Fishing Author:Ted Hughes
“The wealthy class often looks down on the poor as "those people." And deprived people view the rich as cold and heartless. The way to break down the barrier between the rich and poor is to asociate with each other and to help one another. Make a connection. If you can break down the barrier, it may pave the way to recovery for some person, a family, maybe an entire community.” PeopleIfsWayLooksMayPersonsHelpingCommunityPoorViewsClassBreakRichColdConnectionsRecoveryBarriersWealthyBreaking DownDeprivedRich And PoorHeartless Book:God In My Corner: A Spiritual Memoir Source: God In My Corner: A Spiritual Memoir
“So yes, I'm trying to think about the connections between politics and poetry. There's an awful lot you could say here.Poetics is a form of poesis, a form of production-construction, but there might be ways of conceiving of that in a much more interesting manner. That's what I'm thinking about at the moment.” ThinkingWayTryingMomentsMightFormInterestingConnectionsProductionsAwfulConstructionConceiving Author:Simon Critchley
“Art is a process of concentration. It is both the distilled essence and the commentary upon otherwise mundane activities and reflections. Musical notes must be charged, must gather more than one and the surface meaning, must reveal audible and "inaudible" connections to other notes, patterns, and meaning, either by way of affinity or contrast.” WayArtProcessActivityReflectionArt IsConnectionsEssenceNotesMusicalPatternsSurfaceConcentrationContrastMundaneCommentaryAffinityMusical Notes Author:Russell Sherman
“I believe that what makes the psychedelic experience so central is that it is a connection into a larger modality of organization on the planet, which is a fancy way of saying it connects you up to the mind of Nature Herself.” WayMindBelieveI BelievePlanetsConnectionsOrganizationFancyPsychedelicPsychedelic Experience Author:Terence McKenna
“The irony is I did an intimate film in France with no stars and that got me to Hollywood. It got me to the Oscars. If I had tried to imitate the Americans or the Hollywood movies with a commercial recipe, I'd never have gotten to Hollywood. Although, it was not my goal in any way, and I never thought there was any connection between Monsieur Lazhar and the Oscars.” IfsWayFilmStarsGoalConnectionsHollywoodFranceIronyIntimateOscarsRecipesHollywood Movies Author:Philippe Falardeau
“Building new connections is a critical part of building a new economy. The American education system, as flawed as it is, is great for the creative class because of the way it mixes up networks.” WayClassEconomyCreativeBuildingConnectionsCriticalFlawedEducation SystemAmerican EducationAmerican Education System Author:danah boyd
“I studied acting and there's certainly an element of performance. I think that the songs are in many ways written to be performed. I think about what it's going to be like to sing them on stage rather than what it's going to be like to have someone at home listening to them on a CD. I guess in that way there's a connection between my acting experience and the songwriting and the way the songs are written.” ThinkingWayHomeSongActingWrittenStageListeningElementsConnectionsPerformancesSongwritingCds Author:Loudon Wainwright III
“I guess...on one hand, I spent way too much time watching science fiction and reading science fiction when I was growing up. But a part of it is I also never felt much of a connection to the world in which I lived while I was growing up, and so, oddly enough, I think I felt a lot more connected to the worlds that I read about in science fiction.” ThinkingWorldWayEnoughHandsReadingFeltFictionGrowing UpToo MuchGrowingConnectionsScience FictionConnected Author:Moby
“The only preparation or participation required to unleash the power of intention is a connection to the conscious intelligence field, which can be attained in many ways, one of the best being meditation.” WayMeditationFieldsConsciousConnectionsIntentionPreparationParticipationBeing MePower Of Intention Author:Deepak Chopra
“One of the truths I most deeply believe is that everything in life - everything - is energy. Within every one of us is the energy that makes the sun rise every day and keeps the planets aligned. It's there, already inside of you, waiting for you to know it. And when you tap in with that connection, that source, that miraculous energy, what I know for sure is that the universe rises up to meet you in unimaginable ways and help you create the life that you want.” KnowsWayWantBelieveHelpingUniverseEnergyWaitingSunPlanetsSourceConnectionsMiraculousUnimaginableWaiting For YouSun Rise Author:Oprah Winfrey
“In the first stage of insight-building, all that researchers can do is observe phenomena. Second, they classify the phenomena in a way that helps them simplify the apparent complexities of the world so they can ignore the meaningless differences and draw connections between the things that really seem to matter. Third, based on the classification system, they propose a theory. The theory is a statement of what causes what and why, and under what circumstances.” WorldWayFirstsMatterHelpingSeemsCausesCan DoDifferencesStageBuildingTheoryCircumstancesDrawsConnectionsThirdsInsightStatementsComplexityMeaninglessProposeSimplifyResearchersClassification Author:Clayton Christensen
“It's very rare that you get to play a character over the course of so many films. Bella meant a lot to me and she will always be such a formative event in my career. I grew up with her and she and I have been on this great journey together. I also see many parallels between her evolution and my own because I lived through so many things along the way while playing Bella and having this connection to so many people involved in making the films over the years. It would be impossible for me to separate my world from Bella's.” PeopleWorldWayYearsHas BeensPlayCharacterWould BeTogetherFilmCoursesMy OwnCareersImpossibleJourneyEventsGrewEvolutionInvolvedGrew UpConnectionsParallelsGreat JourneysJourney Together Author:Kristen Stewart
“I never go out, ever. And I think that's why I've been craving human connection so badly, and in a way, I'm excited to go on tour to be around people all the time.” PeopleThinkingWayHumansGoes OnConnectionsExcitedCravingHuman Connection Author:Marnie Stern
“The work changes the way your face changes and ages - it just does. Also, I have very little connection to anything I've written. I move on. We all move on” WayLittlesDoeAgeFacesMovingWrittenConnectionsYour Face Author:Jonathan Ames
“When you think of a social network, you have these two-way interactions: "Are you my friend? Yes? No? Yes?" Like LinkedIn, it's business oriented, but it's all about establishing connections. You connect to me through my other connections, and that sort of thing, and you sort of define who your friends are. Twitter doesn't have that.” ThinkingWayTwoSocialMy FriendsConnectionsInteractionTwo WaysSocial NetworkLinkedinWho Your Friends Are Author:Biz Stone
“Criticism can be wonderful, especially in making connections in an interpretive way. But by applying theories randomly, it's an interesting exercise, but I don't think it illuminates the literature.” ThinkingWayLiteratureInterestingWonderfulTheoryExerciseCriticismConnections Author:T.C. Boyle
“Someone wrote to me asking me to illustrate a missed connection that "hasn't happened yet." This guy has seen the same girl waiting at a bus stop on his morning commute for weeks, and has been trying to find a way to approach her. He thought it would be fun to put up a Missed Connections poster [of my painting] on the corner where she waits and see what happens. It is kind of an intriguing idea but there's something a bit too manipulative about it for my liking. It's a fine line between being creative and stalking!” WayTryingKindHas BeensIdeasHappensWould BeGuyGirlFunBitsWaitingLinesMorningCreativeHappenedWeekPaintingFineApproachConnectionsAskingCornersBusBe CreativeThis GuyIntriguingPostersStalkingFine LinesManipulativeBus StopsMissed Connections Author:Sophie Blackall
“I think that one of the reasons that we chose the word love as the subject is because your human connection and how you affect everybody around you, you'll only understand the gravity of that as you pass later on in life. I think as artists it's our ability to communicate that in certain ways.” ThinkingWayHumansReasonArtistCertainAbilitySubjectsConnectionsCommunicateGravityHuman ConnectionWords LoveAbility To Communicate Author:Tom DeLonge
“he hardest obstacle for me has been to find a father. I am the product of three fathers, and my connection to each of them has left me wanting. Each have their own strengths and weaknesses, but I've always been in competition with them in some way.” WayHas BeensThreeFatherLeftProductsWeaknessConnectionsCompetitionObstaclesHardestStrength And Weakness Author:Damon Runyon
“I'm still a researcher. The best way to explain it is that I trusted myself deeply as a professional, but I did not have a lot of self-trust personally. When I started learning all of these things about the value and the importance of belonging, vulnerability, connection, self-kindness and self-compassion, I trusted what I was learning - again, I know I'm a good researcher. When those things and wholeheartedness started to emerge with all these different properties, I knew I had to listen. I'd heard these messages before personally but I didn't trust myself there.” KnowsWayStillsDifferentSelfValuesCompassionKindnessHeardMessagesConnectionsImportancePropertyBest WayVulnerabilityBelongingTrustedResearchersSelf CompassionSelf TrustTrust MyselfWholeheartedness Author:Brené Brown
“At Microsoft I had many years of experience and history and seeing connections. With my direct reports, the job at Microsoft was to delegate and then be able to properly review, but not to micromanage. To have a way of connecting and integrating without getting in the way.” WayYearsAbleJobsSeeingDirectConnectionsReportsReviewsConnectingMicrosoftIntegratingDelegatesYears Of Experience Author:Steve Ballmer
“I have a deep connection with Mahatma Gandhi, partly because my mother was a very, very staunch Gandhian and brought us up that way. When I was six years old, and all the girls were getting nylon dresses, I was very keen to get a nylon frock for my birthday. My mother said, I can get it for you, but would you ratherthrough how you live and what you wear and what you eatensure that food goes into the hands of the weaver or ensure that profits go into the bank of an industrialist? That became such a checkstone for everything in life.” WayYearsSaidI CanHandsMotherGirlSixConnectionsDressesProfitMy BirthdaySix Year OldsWeaversDeep ConnectionsNylon Author:Vandana Shiva
“Things get better when Joy hears about a televised way to sell products and makes a connection with QVC. She convinces an executive there, played by Bradley Cooper, to let her appear as herself.” WayJoyProductsConnectionsSellsGet BetterConvinceExecutives Author:Kenneth Turan
“We know that he gave Aschenbach Mahler's first name, and also his facial features. So Visconti picks up on something interesting. That led me to think about ways of developing further the Aschenbach-Mahler connection.” ThinkingKnowsWayFirstsNamesInterestingPicksConnectionsDevelopingFeaturesFacialSomething InterestingMahlerFacial Features Author:Philip Kitcher
“I use biography, I use literary connections (as with Platen - this seems to me extremely helpful for appreciating the nuances of Mann's and Aschenbach's sexuality), I use philosophical sources (but not in the way many Mann critics do, where the philosophical theses and concepts seem to be counters to be pushed around rather than ideas to be probed), and I use juxtapositions with other literary works (including Mann's other fiction) and with works of music.” WayIdeasUseSeemsFictionSourceConceptsAppreciateConnectionsPhilosophicalCriticsIncludingSexualityHelpfulBiographiesNuanceThesisJuxtapositionLiterary Works Author:Philip Kitcher
“It used to be thought that you stopped making new neural connections in your youth and from then on your brain was fixed and it was downhill all the way. But in fact as we know from our own experience we can keep on learning and learning means changing our brain on a physical level.” KnowsWayMeanFactsUsedLevelsBrainYouthConnectionsUsed To BeFixed Author:Philippa Perry
“The brain likes to be efficient and so even as its strengthening the pathways you're exercising, it's pulling - it's weakening the connections in other ways between the cells that supported old ways of thinking or working or behaving, or whatever that you're not exercising so much.” ThinkingWayBrainExerciseConnectionsLikesCellsEfficientPullingWay Of ThinkingPathwaysStrengtheningWeakeningOld Ways Author:Nicholas G. Carr
“I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.” WayLifeDoeWishFearAtheismMilitaryRevolutionConnectionsSoldierHarmShipsSailBad AssNavyAmerican RevolutionNavalInspirational MilitaryAmerican SoldierAmerican MilitarySailing ShipsShips At SeaMilitary SoldierUnited States MilitaryAmerican VeteransMilitary AviationHistorical MilitaryMy SoldierMilitary VeteranSailing And LoveUnited States NavyMost Badass Author:John Paul Jones
“We have to start at ground zero and ask what it means to have a real connection with God and what it means to pray. We have to recast our whole understanding of God. We live on the other side of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Steven Hawking, a whole group of people who have recast the way we think about reality.” PeopleThinkingWayMeanRealWholeRealityAsksUnderstandingSidesGroupsPrayingConnectionsZeroNewtonIsaacCopernicusKeplerGround ZeroReal Connection Author:John Shelby Spong
“The more outlandish things he said, the deeper the connection. Well, [Donald] Trump has that. That's why I don't think they can destroy Trump the way that they're trying to destroy Trump over this thing in Scotland today. This is a perfect example.” ThinkingWayTryingWellsSaidTodayPerfectExampleTrumpConnectionsDeeperScotlandOutlandish Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The other cool thing is, even with Jessica [Johnson], or Daredevil, I had taken a break from those characters for a while in the comics, so I can enjoy the shows without the agita. I completely love the Daredevil show. I feel no physical connection to it, because it was 10 years ago since I wrote that comic, so I can just enjoy it. And when people connect it in a positive way to me, I go, "Well, that's very f - king flattering!"” PeopleWayFeelsYearsWellsI CanCharacterShowsEnjoyBreakTakenKingsYears AgoConnectionsComicJohnsonFlatteringCool ThingsJessicaDaredevil Author:Brian Michael Bendis
“Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.” PeopleWayNeedsLooksTwoPlayOrderStreetsCommunicationMusic IsConnectionsTwo WaysTwo Way Street Author:John Petrucci
“I think laughter between people is a holy form of connection, of communion. It's the way you and I look at each other and without words, say, I get exactly what you're saying. And so, it's important to me.” PeopleThinkingWayLooksImportantFormHolyLaughterConnectionsCommunion Author:Brené Brown
“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
“You can expand your awareness in many ways, and as you do, your brain will evolve. It will grow physically by developing new neural pathways, synaptic connections, and even new brain cells. Perhaps more importantly, it will evolve to mirror the expansion of your mind into new, creative areas.” WayMindGrowsBrainCreativeAwarenessAreasConnectionsMirrorsCellsDevelopingEvolveExpansionPathwaysBrain Cells Author:Deepak Chopra
“You will find a way to make your message fresher. You'll find a way to make your connections in a way that will continue to inspire and direct and motivate. That's what I'm banking on.” WayInspireMessagesDirectConnectionsBanking Author:Pete Carroll
“I obviously have a different connection to each song in a different way, and they all mean something different to me.” WayMeanDifferentSongConnectionsDifferent Ways Author:Melanie Martinez