Jim Rohn Quotes

It's weird to try to write lyrics for somebody else. They can't really get behind what you're saying or what you want them to say because they didn't experience it.

I came from battling, knowing about the lyrics. All that's cool, but if you want people to love you, you have to talk to them about what they go through.

I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.

Acting is about communicating, reacting, and sharing - and friendship is about all of those things, too.

I don't always know what I want to hear, but I'm gonna try and pull it out and sing it to you, and if you hear it the way I sing it to you, then a wall is broken.

I can only do the best I can from what I read from the book, and hopefully it translates on camera.

It's important to tell your story. It's important to listen.

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

Words are the only bread we can really share.

Thou canst not speak of what thou dost not feel.

Words build bridges into unexplored regions.

They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece.

I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.

I don't think love is a tricky issue at all. Love is best understood when we share: Share time, energy, food, resources, insights, information, whatever. It's usually thought of as something that exists between two people, but that's just because it's easier to see and feel in the space between them. Each person is sharing a lot with the other.

Language cares.

I just want people to hear me and my story.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

I think one of my better gifts as a writer is empathy.

I know what actors fear, what they like; I know how to get things out of them and I listen to them better, since I've been there.

If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience.

One of the reasons I write is to be in other people's skin.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for my readers.

Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.

Connection is very important. It's extremely important for me to be connected and sharing with other people, giving them what I feel is important.