Jason Isbell Quotes

We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.

It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.

Family is just the people you care about. We can bond with people that we have nothing in common with, even if it's just for a moment.

I loved playing Shaun, he's not that different from me.

All of us are much more human than otherwise.

I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really by knowing them... whether that's in a classroom, or a soccer team, or a food pantry, or any of those things. I mean, we're kind of more alike than we are different.

No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

People can transcend and overcome their differences and be very easily bonded.

There's not many people that I can't relate to and can't share experiences with.

I think we're all more alike than we want to believe sometimes.

I brought what I could of myself to this thing, because between Henry Warnimont and I - not a hell of a lot of difference.

The Big Chill is one of those things that everybody can identify with. Between eight characters, they can pick somebody who's somewhat like them.

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.

Probably above all other things, I am interested as a writer in making a connection, interested in the parts of all of us that connect.

It's nice on the daytime format to focus on things that connect us.

In this world, and all the things we have going on, we're all human beings.

I am drawn to people who are like me - who have experienced the ups and downs of life but have come through the other side.

When I travel the country, I am often struck by how much we actually have in common. It's much more powerful than how much there is that's reported that divides us.

I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.

Empathy is choosing to see ourselves in another despite our differences. It's recognizing that the same humanity - the same desire for meaning, fulfillment and security - exists in each of us, even if it's expressed uniquely.

People are so much more interested in making connections, and finding common ground, and sharing experiences than sometimes their governments are.

A lot of people can relate to me.

I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.

Finally, I have someone that's like me. My other two pupils were the opposite sides of the moon. But this guy is on the same side of the moon, is on the same planet that I'm on.