Mark Pagel Quotes

When a group of people get together, it's collective power. You know that you're doing it for the good.

Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.

Teams are a collective expression.

It is wonderful to be in solidarity with another big group of people.

Sympathy will have been increased through natural selection

The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality.

We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or clique, not a community. Anyone can form a club; it takes grace, shared vision, and hard work to form a community.

. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.

We will work as a group, we need to be a real team, that is the only way to go far

For most of human history, we lived communally in groups, and it was part of the security and nature of groups to help each other and groom each other.

I love being part of a team, any team. Not just playing, but the camaraderie, the whole thing. It's just what I get off on.

There is a sense of tranquility that I think people can get from being in an organized group, where a singular leader handles the responsibilities of individual thinking.

I love being part of a team.

We always operated within a sense of community not just about the band. It's important to the way we define ourselves. It's the entire world in which we operate.

Teams that play together beat those teams with superior players who play more as individuals.

When I work with other people, I try to make up for their shortcomings with my strengths, and I let others make up for my flaws with their strengths. I try to co-operate with people around me when working in a group. I like to enhance team spirit on set. I try to get everyone involved in the action.

Not everything, always, is about your performance. It's about the team performance. When the team is not playing well, then normally, you will not play well. It's all about the team.

I think about the team and the group always.

The point of the game is not how well the individual does, but whether the team wins. That's the beautiful heart of the game, the blending of personalities, the mutual sacrifices for the group success.

You don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other

There's nothing wrong with the word conspiracy. It just means 'to breathe together.'

The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people.

In the wake of the Cultural Revolution and now of the recession I observe a mounting pressure to co-operate and to promote "teamwork." For its anti-individualistic streak, such a drive is of course highly suspect; some people may not be so sensitive to it, but having seen the Hitlerjugend in action suffices for the rest of your life to be very wary of "team spirit." Very.

And the deeds that ye do upon this earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.