Brian Chesky Quotes

Every human being has to feel a part of a tribe. It's programmed into us. And you have to feel that you're contributing to something.

On the Net, the bell curve reclaims its tails. The uncommon is as accessible as the common. The very fragmentation of the Internet allows us to find ourselves in other people - and to know that we are not alone.

You see people who are disenfranchised elsewhere coming to Comic Con and making lifetime friends. I love seeing the outcasts of society all bonding together.

We are a people in search of community.

Probably every person is some mixture of wanting to feel a sense of commonality and shared experience with others but also wanting to feel completely singular and unique.

There's no way we could make up what we are. The group is just what everyone is. Each of us has a different audience.

It's lovely to feel part of a community.

Community isn't something I ever take for granted.

We should all have an opportunity to feel a part of something not just have a part in something.

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

By being friends with all, we are not alone.

I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day, I don't understand how people think they can bring anybody together without a song.

I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history.

The notion of 'we' is very important. I think, for any family, any community to be able to say 'we' in this family, it means something. It's dangerous to society when somebody will place himself or herself on the outside of 'we.'

You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to.

When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.

I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.

We felt like we just got surrounded by this community of friends.

The instinctive need to be the member of a closely knit group fighting for common ideals may grow so strong that it becomes inessential what these ideals are

Canadian federalism is more than a form of government. It's also a system of values that allows different people in diverse communities to live and work together in harmony for the good of all.

If you book the same models that look and act the same in every show - I get the continuity, and it is beautiful to see, but there's also no life to it. I'm personally not a fan of that.

Instead of focusing on, 'Oh, there's a black lady who plays videogames,' focus on that there's another person out there who loves the same stuff that you do.

Belonging has always been a fundamental driver of humankind.

I just always wanted to be part of something where I felt like I belonged.