Yuval Noah Harari Quotes

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.

We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in a different way.

The problem with communicating without a coordinator is that everyone has to read everyone else's mind.

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that's politics.

This band has never had an argument. It's just amazing.

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

Anytime you get nine people together, whether it's at a party or it's in the conference room of the Supreme Court, you do have to maintain some order, or it does kind of degenerate into squabbling pretty quickly.

I'm really puzzled by why people in societies find it difficult to work collaboratively together with other people in societies.

It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.

If three come together let them pick a leader.

I've always worked with other people. As a musician, it's your role to basically share with other people.

We thought a human city is kind of like that watering hole. It's where different groups come together and have to find ways to live and survive and cohabit and cooperate, but they may not always see eye-to-eye.

We don't live in isolation. Most people don't like working in isolation - some do, but they typically don't end up playing Major League Baseball.

The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.

I always step back and look at - you know, look at my background in playing team sports my whole life and taking that approach into Congress. It's not about me going, and you know, feeding my ego going to Congress.

In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.

What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group.

Don't organize in the spirit of antagonism; that should be beneath your consideration.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.

I've always been a good ensemble player.

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

I am always happiest in an ensemble.

Kev has these old Boston drills, where you all have to talk to each other, and interact, and it's helped us.