Connecting with Others Quotes

I try to make the kinds of things I want to see out there in the world, and hope they end up resonating with other people too.

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It's like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.

Sometimes there's these things in life that hit at the right time, and it connects with people in the right way.

Become genuinely interested in other people.

That's the great thing about social media: you can make one move, and everybody knows about it, and I kind of like that.

Volunteering is a way to quickly become part of your new community, make connections, and start to feel at home. That doesn't just benefit the individual. It benefits the company, too.

I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.

I walk around a lot. People come up to me and say 'Hi,' but not that often. I mean, I get it plenty often, but sometimes I wish they'd come up to me more! I mean, I'm just a regular guy.

Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.

I use music as a medium to talk to people.

If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.

Some people are inherently likeable. If you're not - work on it. It may even improve your social life.

Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.

Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.

Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.

On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.

The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.

Donald Trump has his Twitter account, but so do I, and so do millions and millions of Americans. So the way that we can organize around that is different than what we had in the past, and we can use that tool for good, not just for evil.

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.

Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.