Howard Rheingold Quotes

Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans.

Just as the mind emerges from the actions of individual neurons and their cooperation, the success of an organization emerges not only from its individual participants, but also from the interplay between them.

What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct.

We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way.

In principle, every social situation involves strategic interaction among the participants.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

Manners are the lubricating oil of an organization. It is a law of nature that two moving bodies in contact with each other create friction. This is as true for human beings as it is for inanimate objects.

The more you play with the other players, the more you understand them and they understand you, and that's very important.

Teamwork is a strategic decision.

Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be.

When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back.

The best part of being married is, everything we face in life, we face as a team. I don't do a thing - professionally or personally - without discussing it with my wife.

The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.

Without social cohesion, the human race wouldn't be here: We're not formidable enough to survive without the tactics, rules and strategies that allow people to work together.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

I'm curious about people. That's what I've always done since I've been a small boy. I'm curious about others.

It's just like with people. You're going to get along better working with them - human or equine - if you ask politely rather than demand that they do things.

You know, you can have someone who's the very best at something, but if there's not that kind of chemistry, collaborating is not going to amount to anything.

I love collaborating with people.

I love working closely with people.

Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.

Music teaches people to work together, which is maybe one of the most important skills.