Connecting People Quotes

I think that's something that people feel that I do really well; I don't mind it, because ultimately I think the characters I play move people, and who wouldn't want to move people?

When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all the time was a world that was more open.

Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.

My restaurants are about community and about sharing and about warmth.

I'm quite good at bringing people together.

My dad has a certain spirit, a twinkle in his eye, someone who can set a certain standard for players but also convey it with humor. What I learned from him is that coaching is, more than anything, about connecting with people.

I love to consume information of all kinds, and I think that also hopefully helps with my broadcasting, that I always try to bring up a fact that maybe will connect to a person who's not a big fan, or maybe a pop culture reference.

I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.

Facebook was just John the Baptist. Twitter is the real deal.

We think that this is just our world and we don't know what other people are thinking. Music actually is a phenomenal connector in that respect. It's a special language that defines certain boundaries and connects people in a particular way, a very emotional way, I have found.

TV is the most powerful medium, which has taken me right into the homes of so many people.

Through music, I think we can inspire each other.

My quest has always been to get my story to the rest o' the people.

Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.

I want to have a movement with my music.

I don't know if we're doing the optimal things that we can to try and connect different people on the planet with different points of view and not be so angry at each other.

I think it can be really powerful, and one of the reasons I love making films is I do feel they can reach beyond the statistics and the numbers and the complexities of a particular issue and really highlight the humanity in a way that an article or newspaper story might not be able to do.

Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen.

What I like about music is that you make a song, you've got your ideas in it, and people make that song part of their life - they hang out with their friends to it, they get in arguments to it, they get married to it, they get divorced to it. It's in their world, and it takes on its own life.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.

It's a unique thing, and it's probably the thing I love most about songs and music - their ability to connect in a human way.

I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.'

Twitter isn't a social network, it's an information network.

I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it's in our unity that we'll have the greatest strength.