Francis Bacon Quotes

I remind myself that I'm always more satisfied by human interaction than by a digital connection.

The power of being in the physical presence of another person delivers real benefits.

There is enormous value in face to face interaction.

I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

I hug employees all the time. I'm a huge contact person. Touch is an extremely important part of the human condition.

It's funny how intimate it feels to get a text.

A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.

The only thing people are interested in is people.

You never really know the guy until you sit down with him.

Social media is fine, but we need to put the phones down and look somebody in the eye. Talk to your neighbor. Talk to your community. Especially talk to the one you love. It's all about connection. It's hard, but it's ultimately what gives us meaning in the world.

It's a hard thing to explain to other people because it sounds very superficial and nepotistic, but doing the interview is actually a very deep, dream-fulfilling aspect of relationship.

We’re creatures of contact regardless of whether/ we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together.

I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.

It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.

The marvellous thing about writing, whether it be fiction or journalism, is that it is simultaneously the most intimate and the most anonymous of meetings between people. It is profoundly intimate in reaching into the psyche of another, at the same time as being devoid of social characteristics, cultural characteristics, economic characteristics.

I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no matter how many people are present

Try to do your best to look people in the eye and talk to them without a gadget being in between you all the time.

But obviously, things have changed in many ways since the '50s, when the show is started, in terms of sexuality, and how much access we have to images of it and information about it. But, the same problems always apply. It doesn't matter whether we know a lot more about sex now or if there's a lot more access to it. The same problems of intimacy, of dealing with other people, of connecting and being vulnerable with other people, which is what the show is ultimately about, still applies now, I think.

It’s good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn’t lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people.

In my opinion when you speak about relationships between people, you are actually talking about everything in their world because everything is contained in that relationship.

Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every day for three years.

Looking into another person's eyes for an extended period of time proved to be a powerful thing. And if you don't believe me, try it yourself.

Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?

Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery... brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to.