Zal Batmanglij Quotes

There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Since men are social by nature they are meant to live with others and to work for one another's welfare

I focus a lot more on the collective than the individual.

I don't really know what 'community' means. And I never use that word.

There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.

I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.

The joy of just being involved in something, of being part of a big process, just as a human being, it's nice to be part of people who are in the same enterprise, heading for the same goal, rather than, 'Oh this is all about me and my role. The story's about me.'

I am too much of a team member to be separated from my team.

If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.

I don't look at myself as a leader. I do look at myself as part of a community.

When I was an actor, I was part of a team, which I loved. You are a part inside something which is larger.

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

I like being part of a team.

With any sort of major change we need to make in our lives, it's much easier to do it with other people. We succeed and thrive best when we work together and support each other. When we struggle alone, that's when the struggle can seem impossible.

I think all of us naturally want to be a part of a community... at home and at work.

We live in a society where individual effort and progress is valued, and that's absolutely correct and is as it should be. But we also are interdependent creatures. We can't succeed solely on our own.

The one thing we learned about community - you can't force community.

Humans can't live independently. We should work together and dream together.

I love being part of a team.

It's all about the team first, then myself. As I continue to help the team, I'll continue to build on my success, but it all starts with the team.

Forming communities - even and especially ones based on strong loyalties and allegiances - is in our DNA. It's what's kept us alive for millions of years.

Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship, requires that the dictates of community prevail over selfish impulses.

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone.

The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons.