Stanley Kubrick Quotes

Never invest yourself in anything so deeply that its failure could cost you your happiness.

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that's necessary for living together and building a community.

Technology is best when it brings people together.

We're hardwired for connection. There's no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we're trying to hot-wire it.

I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

Whether a plane to Singapore, a subway in Manhattan, or the streets of Cincinnati, I search for meaningful conversation wherever I may travel. Without it, I believe we lose the ability to not only understand others, but more importantly, ourselves.

'Faking It' was hard for me to let go of because I knew how many kids it helped.

I've always liked the idea of walking into a cocktail party where there are different people and finding some connection with almost everybody in the room.

It's harder to scream at someone you just chatted with at lunch. I mean, if you're a superb actor, you might be able to do that, but I couldn't do it.

It takes effort to not be lonely.

I always felt it was necessary to keep up some kind of communication with other people.

If we want to live and love with our whole hearts, and if we want to engage with the world from a place of worthiness, we have to talk about the things that get in the way- especially shame, fear and vulnerability

With friends, if you keep making an effort to reach out and you keep getting hurt, you eventually stop trying. But it's much harder to give up on family. Somewhere deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake over and over again.

When I was in college, I remember thinking to myself, this internet thing is awesome because you can look up anything you want, you can read news, you can download music, you can watch movies, you can find information on Google, you can get reference material on Wikipedia, except the thing that is most important to humans, which is other people, was not there.

I never became a recluse where I got away from people and who they are and how they think. I'm very much in touch with the world.

You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.

Conversation is a beautiful thing. When I was a younger guy, just wandering around talking to people was what kept me connected to the world.

I think that so many of our abilities to do things depend on interaction with each other.

old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving.

The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.

When I'm not happy, I can't play. That's just the way I am.

Sometimes I don't like people. And, you know, it doesn't bother me. The hard ones are when you really like somebody, really respect somebody and they make a mistake.