Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.
Interpretation
The quote encourages people to disconnect from their devices and engage more with others in real life.
Amy Poehler emphasizes the importance of face-to-face interactions in a world dominated by technology. By suggesting that we put our iPhones down, she highlights the tendency to miss genuine connections with people around us, reminding us to appreciate the emotional richness and depth that comes from engaging directly with others.
In practice
In a speech about modern relationships, one might use this quote to emphasize the importance of personal connections.
Be easy on yourself. Have fun. Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life the better. The minute anybody makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.
Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life, the better.
Open-faced sandwiches take risks and live big and smile with all their teeth. These are the people I want to be around.
You become more attractive when you love yourself. You ATTRACT the right things when you have a sense of who you are.
We don't want to be afraid to make a choice because we're afraid to make a mistake because most decisions aren't final. Feelings change all the time. You can always change your mind and taking risks and making choices is what makes life so exciting because we never know what's going to happen. Every day something new comes our way.
Itβs very hard to have ideas. Itβs very hard to put yourself out there, itβs very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.
Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.
Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. In time, a pair invents its own commonwealth, complete with anthems, rituals, and lingos-a cult of two with fallible gods.
Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want
Baboons who have friends do much better in terms of their physiology. And if that applies to a baboon, it could certainly apply for a human.
Born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not listening to wicked men, who may endeavor to make us enemies. By living in peace, we can help and prosper one another; by waging war, we can kill and destroy many on both sides; but those who survive will not be the happier for that.
You are going to share in the most intimate parts of your patients' lives. You will share in their moments of tragedy. But you will also share in their moments of greatest joy.
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