Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

There is nothing I hate more than meeting someone who has forgotten the art of conversing.

When you can make a good, strong musical connection with people, that's always there. That's not often that that happens.

I'm gonna find creative ways to connect with people that actually matter and exist. That's kinda like my goal, like, how can we creatively do things in a different way so that we can actually get people and talk to them?

I think what creates a winner is a person who can connect with their partner - another human being.. connect with their soul

I'm really interested in how we understand each other - and whether we can understand each other.

With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange.

There is hunger to have good experiences with people. There will be roles and all of that. But the package of experience has today become important for me. People should be good, established; the filmmaking and acting experience should become heartening.

The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.

An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand.

Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.

Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship

A perfect date is probably something somewhere where you can kind of communicate and talk to the person. I don't like movies as first date. I don't think that's a good idea because you don't really get to talk to the person. I think taking a walk or just having one on one time with that person is the best.

It's a hard thing to explain to other people because it sounds very superficial and nepotistic, but doing the interview is actually a very deep, dream-fulfilling aspect of relationship.

I'm not a completely closed book; I'm a social person and if I see something worth sharing, I'm happy to do that.

The real crucial link in the international exchange is the last three feet, which is bridged by personal contact, one person talking to another.

Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing.

Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.

Talking with Gary Busey is kinda like sex. You want to do it, you just don't want to be alone when you do it.

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

If you're listening to music, then the music is your friend; or if you're with a person, then that person can be your friend because you're communicating.

I am looking for a human.

The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person.

I can't explain the alchemy that transmuted one evening into the equivalent of years held lightly in common. The only way I can put it is that we recognized, too surely even for surprise, that we shared the same currency.

Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.