Warren Bennis Quotes

Not only is social life identical with communication, but all communication (and hence all genuine social life) is educative.

I like being around people.

When people ask what I'd like to do next, the answer is usually, 'Something with people in rooms.'

For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.

Human interaction in a complex environment is key to our [military] success in the future.

Now, I'm a pretty fast and avid reader. But you can't learn the same things in a book or on the Internet that you can in a personal talk with somebody.

My agenda... is to learn about people.

Working with different people anyway is like life and meeting different people... as long as you can be empathetic, you can take a bit of them on and see what you can do to help their process. That said, my relationship with Woody Allen was trying to hang on his every word so that I could tell everybody what he said afterwards. But certainly, he was a very good example of somebody who you didn't hear talk above a very low volume for the entire time he was on-set.

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interactions that are crucial to the way knowledge moves through an organization. The role that hallway chat plays in driving new ideas has become a cliche of business writing, but that doesn't make it less true.

Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way.

Social does not just equal Facebook. Social is how people interact anywhere.

In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

I have a horrible memory and I used to consider that a liability, but I've learned along the way that talking to people is really a beautiful thing.

And I'm walking along and we're laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one we called the leader, had some knowledge of English, although limited.

While you're setting something up that's educational for yourself, you have an opportunity to teach others at the same time.

It's human nature to want to be with other people.

Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.

Because books are written by individuals, it has often made knowledge seem like the product of individuals, even though everybody has always understood that individuals are working within the social network.

The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect—to help people work together—and not as a technical toy. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. We develop trust across the miles and distrust around the corner.

People want to learn how other people live. It's just human nature.

I learned so much from the people in Seattle. They taught me everything from community to business relationships.