Personal Connection Quotes:

Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

- Paul J. Meyer

topic: Communication, Careers, Keys, Interacting With Others, Lack Of Communication

You have to have a personal connection. You have to really want to do it, because if you don't, investing yourself personally, your thoughts, your emotions, yourself into a part, is something you're not going to want to do as much.

- Philip Seymour Hoffman

topic: Want, Connections, Investing, Personal Connection

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual, Quiet Person, Experiencing Things

We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature, Quiet Person, Experiencing Things

We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur.

- Peter Block

topic: Knowledge, Learning, Connections, Consultants, Personal Connection

The local grocery store was a gathering, a community place. You knew the owner, if you didn't have any money they'd let you go for a couple days. You talked. It was a friendly place. Supermarkets are totally impersonal. I mean, you may say hello to the checkout girl or something, but the personal connections are all gone.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: brightestyoungthings.com

topic: Girl, Couple, Mean, Grocery Stores, Checkouts

You'll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, and not present. We love details, personal connections, stories.

- Natalie Goldberg

source: Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.181, Open Road Media

topic: Stories, Connections, Details, Personal Connection

The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to the instrument you hold in your hands: if a guitar means something special, you're bound to do great things with it.

- Frank Iero

topic: Philosophy, Mean, Guitar, Special You, Something Special

I always try to bring a little bit of my own personality to the character, or some sort of personal connection makes it a little bit more of an organic portrayal and the audience can kind of maybe believe it a little bit more. But I always look for something to kind of connect with and identify with, or bring something of myself to the table.

- Mark Wahlberg

topic: Believe, Character, Personality, My Own Personality, Portrayal

I think having not only personal connections with friends and family I'm able to pull from, but having a connection with so many people through social media, it also feels like I have a relationship with those people that follow me. And feel that what I'm going through, they've gone through something similar, and that's why we've connected. And they're the ones that make it into that body of work that represents them or that time in their life, because we've found each other.

- Hailee Steinfeld

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Thinking, Media, People, Personal Connection

But in film you always watch situations or stories that you really have no relation to. A lot of times just because there's no personal connection doesn't mean you can't connect with the film or the characters in the film.

- Jay Hernandez

topic: Character, Mean, Connections, Personal Connection

Times have changed since 2002 when I won a spot in the group 'Popstars.' Back in the day we would get fan letters in the mail, now you can find anyone and contact people. It's incredible how fans can have a personal connection, share photos, stories.

- Josh Henderson

topic: People, Groups, Connections, Back In The Day, Personal Connection

Obviously because of my personal connection to Mandela and having had his story as part of my childhood, I knew how awesome he was.

- Lenora Crichlow

topic: Childhood, Connections, Stories, Personal Connection

I think you have to have a personal connection, and that's what I am always looking to try to create: a personal way in to a story.

- Emma Walton Hamilton

topic: Thinking, Trying, Connections, Personal Connection

Along with church monies and the United Way, most of the others that I give the most to are organizations for which I have some personal connection in that they have affected family members; i.e., kidney, cancer, heart, and organ donation. My wife and I have also contributed to and been heavily involved with the Boys and Girls Club of Utah County.

- LaVell Edwards

source: Source: universe.byu.edu

topic: Girl, Cancer, Heart, Organ Donation, Family Members

When you aimlessly shoot for lofty goals, with no personal connection to them, you loose sight of what really matters, and what will really make you content.

- Jinkx Monsoon

source: Source: fierth.com

topic: Sight, Goal, Connections, Lofty, Lofty Goals

My wife Jennifer's family is all from there. Jennifer grew up there, so we have personal ties forever - her mom, dad, her brother, her twin brother - so, there's certainly a personal connection there that will also be there. Also, even though I grew up in Omaha, I feel like I really grew up in Milwaukee.

- Peter Buffett

source: "Milwaukee Talks: Peter Buffett". Interview with Bobby Tanzilo, onmilwaukee.com. July 11, 2007.

topic: Milwaukee, Mom Dad, Omaha, Twin Brother, Personal Connection

Anytime I get to be around the fans it's always a good time, especially during Music Fest. CMA puts together an event that allows artists to make that personal connection with the fans and it's wonderful. I look at it as our chance to give back to them and let them know we appreciate their support.

- Billy Currington

topic: Artist, Giving, Appreciate, Personal Connection

I started to play noise on my cello because I felt a deep personal connection to it. I mean, I still love all the beautiful sounds of the cello as much as anybody but it's only when I play certain sounds I know that the cello really presents who I am; not my emotions but who I am as a person.

- Okkyung Lee

topic: Beautiful, Mean, Who I Am, Personal Connection

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.

- Sarah Harmer

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: People, Office, Connections, Personal Connection

Monica Langley has a great piece in The Wall Street Journal about how they're trying to create different kinds of moments for Donald Trump, as opposed to just him shouting at rallies. They're trying to get him in classrooms, and in churches, and in diners and places where he can make a more personal connection.

- Bill Burton

topic: Wall, Church, Trying, Monica, Wall Street Journal

Enthusiasm is big. When I write a book, it's a three-year commitment. Toward the end, I'm writing seven days a week, and it's exhausting but thrilling. The only hope is to have some real enthusiasm for the book. ... Above all, you need some strong emotional or personal connection to your material.

- Nathaniel Philbrick

topic: Strong, Real, Book, Strong Emotional, Exhausting

I love myspace and sites like that, cause its allowed me to stay connected to my fans. The personal connection remains the same, but as I've grown, it never gets to be too overwhelming. It allows the artist to be as involved as they want to be.

- Tristan Prettyman

source: Source: www.roomthirteen.com

topic: Artist, Connections, Fans, Personal Connection

Developing a personal connection with anyone you're trying to do a big deal with is really important.

- Sam Altman

topic: Trying, Important, Connections, Personal Connection

The photographer Ruth Bernhard used to tell me that this is like asking somebody how they evolved their signature. It is not something I've ever worked on consciously. I think style is just the end result of personal experience. It would be problematic for me to photograph in another style. I'm drawn to places and subject matter that have personal connections for me and I photograph in a way that seems right. Where does it all come from, who knows?

- Michael Kenna

topic: Thinking, Style, Connections, End Results, Personal Connection

If I had a worldview, and I don't know if I do,but if I did, it's one that's intensely humanistic.

- Eric Kripke

source: "'It's the fun Apocalypse': Creator Eric Kripke talks 'Supernatural'". Interview with Maureen Ryan, featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com. August 26, 2009.

topic: Worldview, Humanistic, Human Connection, Foxholes, Life Means

...compelling outdoor imagery always combines some kind of personal connection to nature and skillful technique. The former seems to be a form of grace, and the latter an act of the will.

- George B. Ward

topic: Photography, Grace, Technique, Skillful, Personal Connection

Over the past few years, the Supreme Court was six times more likely to accept cases from an elite group of 66 lawyers than it was from more than 99 percent of those who petitioned the court. That's the finding of a recent Reuters special report called "The Echo Chamber." It illustrates how almost half the appeals accepted by the court over a nine-year period came from this cadre of elite lawyers--many of whom have personal connections to the nine justices.

- Dahlia Lithwick

topic: Past, Echoes, Years, Cadre, Personal Connection

Even if you don't mind Romneycare, or the abortion flip-flop, or any of the rest, there's a more basic problem: He's not a natural campaigner, and on the stump he instinctively recoils from any personal connection with the voters.

- Mark Steyn

topic: Abortion, Mind, Voters, Stumps, Recoil

I don't think young people are as demoralized as the media and government would like us to think. The obvious sign of that is how strong and how close personal connections are and how much people are able to build a life for themselves, despite all this stuff that's been thrown at them.

- Thom Yorke

source: "Thom Yorke’s View from the Stage". Interview with Judy Bond, www.lionsroar.com. November 1, 1998.

topic: Strong, Thinking, Government, Demoralized, Personal Connection

William Kowalski is the kind of storyteller you don’t see quite enough these days. The yarn spinner with a generous soul. The Hundred Hearts is a moving, humane adventure about the price of personal connections and the costs of sacrifice. I tore through this bad boy in two short nights.

- Victor LaValle

topic: Moving, Heart, Adventure, Spinner, Personal Connection

It's an amazing feeling to feel that I was able to get a personal connection to the work, through the work of it. But I like the idea that I was able to tell a bunch of people's stories even though I didn't know them.

- Azazel Jacobs

source: Source: wegotthiscovered.com

topic: Ideas, People, Feelings, Personal Connection

I do not believe in a personal connection to God; that's where it gets transcendental.

- Orhan Pamuk

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Believe, Connections, Transcendental, Personal Connection

My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.

- Amber Tamblyn

topic: Religious, Thinking, Connections, Personal Connection