Dave Grohl Quotes

The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.

Music is a social act.

I like being a part of something. I like participating and being part of a group.

Despite our ever-connective technology, neither Skype nor Facebook - not even a telephone call - can come close to the joy of being with loved ones in person.

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.

I always work with 18 friends.

I like to connect with people through my work. That's my favorite way - meetings of the minds, fans at a show. Those are nice mediated ways of hanging out.

There's nothing like the camaraderie of being around the other players.

When I was writing or competing in individual sports, it felt unfulfilling and lonely. When I was able to find a group of people I believed in and liked, that all worked in pursuit of a common goal, it felt incredibly rewarding.

You play with 10 players, you don't play alone.

Group think and groups in general allow you to more fully give yourself to something other than yourself and your betterment - to feel a sense of belonging. Now is this a good thing? I don't know, but it's something that is longed for, at least by me.

What I learned early on, is that it's not really fun to do things alone.

The Dead Daisies have been an absolute blast for me so far. The guys are all great musicians and also incredibly easy to work with.

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.

I think good theaters are really important. They allow you to exist in a space with other people.

Ok you guys, pair up in threes!

Find like-minded people and try not to be individualized to the point where you try to fight it all and think about it all on your own.

I always preferred working with somebody so I could look into their eyeballs and play tennis.

Children that play outside develop better problem solving skills and have a stronger ability to work within a group.

When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, remember that your defining characteristic-what defines a human being-is to work with others.

I love the process of working with people and having things going on, all the time, and just trying to trust your instincts.

I think that so many of our abilities to do things depend on interaction with each other.

The biggest thing I've noticed with some of my favorite directors is their gift of sticking a bunch of strangers in a room together and making them comfortable and making them into a cohesive group. There's magic involved, because you don't know why anybody would pick this group of people.

Of course, on a job, you have a shared common interest in the fact that you're there making a movie or making a TV show, and that creates unification within a group. There has to be something more than just the work for that to continue on, for that friendship to continue on.

My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.