Best Personal Connection Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

…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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.