Personal Connection Quotes

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

  Paul J. Meyer

  Success, Powerful, Communication

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  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

  Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual

  Letter of 1950, as quoted in "The New York Times", March 29, 1972.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

  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

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• 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

  Connections, Investing, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Peter Block

  Relationship, Work, Communication

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

  Natalie Goldberg

  Stories, Connections, Details

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

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• 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

  Ideas, People, Feelings

  Source: wegotthiscovered.com

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

  Orhan Pamuk

  Believe, Connections, Transcendental

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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

  Sam Altman

  Trying, Important, Connections

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• 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

  Artist, Connections, Fans

  Source: www.roomthirteen.com

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• 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

  Sight, Goal, Connections

  Source: fierth.com

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• 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

  Mom, Brother, Dad

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

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• 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

  Artist, Giving, Appreciate

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• 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

  Beautiful, Mean, Who I Am

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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

  People, Office, Connections

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• 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

  Wall, Church, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  Religious, Thinking, Connections

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• 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

  Past, Years, Echoes

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• 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

  Strong, Real, Book

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• 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

  Moving, Heart, Adventure

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• 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

  Strong, Thinking, Government

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

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• 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

  Abortion, Mind, Connections

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• ...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

  Photography, Grace, Technique

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• If I had a worldview, and I don't know if I do, but if I did, it's one that's intensely humanistic. [That worldview] is that the only thing that matters is family and personal connection, and that's the only thing that gives life meaning. Religion and gods and beliefs - for me, it all comes down to your brother. And your brother might be the brother in your family, or it might be the guy next to you in the foxhole, it's about human connections.

  Eric Kripke

  Brother, Giving, Guy

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

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• 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

  Thinking, Style, Signatures

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