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.
I think, don't you, that a girl with any delicacy of feeling couldn't bring herself to marry a man indirectly responsible for her father's death. No matter how much she was in love with him.
We put stereotypes on ourselves. Everybody does that. But I think it's just a little harder for black kids to just be who they are.
Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there.
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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