Daniel Levitin Quotes

All animals communicate. What's special about gossip is that it's not about the here and now. You don't gossip about lions. You don't gossip about clouds. You only gossip about other people. And once you do, you can keep track of many more people - this is the basis for forming larger communities.

For me, playing is about playing with other people.

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

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

Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.

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

Mankind have always wandered or settled, agreed, or quarreled in troops and companies.

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.

Gossiping has become the main form of communication in human society. It has become the way we feel close to each other, because it makes us feel better to see someone else feel as badly as we do. There is an old expression that says, 'Misery likes company,' and people who are suffering in hell don't want to be all alone.

We yearn for frictionless, technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way norms and standards change.

Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.

I am a team player.

I see myself as a team player.

Some communities are formed through schools, churches, workplaces. But much of how we learn about one another as a society comes from physically being together in places like skating rinks.

Communication is always important, but it's a separate type of language in football.

It's great to communicate as a team.

When you see the rival make a certain pass, you don't need to look behind you. You know 100 per cent that all your teammates will go with you.

Teamwork is a significant part of 'Counter-Strike: Condition Zero' and many of the secondary objectives require you to effectively work with your squad.

I think it's important to play real people.

Communication is important, and when you have an understanding with someone on the pitch, it is the most important thing.

My passion in life isn't politics. It truly is connecting to people and women.

If a joke makes our tribe laugh, we assume it will make other friend-tribes laugh.

I was always with the people.