Jon Taffer Quotes

I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that.

Be in community, go out to dinner together, do things together. We lose that, we lose a lot. It's important to come together.

I remember in grade school having a group of friends and enjoying that sense of community, enjoying living in an imaginary world that wasn't just by yourself or your sibling but a whole group of people.

We hunger for connection to a larger community.

I think that human beings are often looking for a reason to relate.

We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock.

Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we're becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together. I don't think the desire for that magic will ever go away.

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

Humans are social beings, and we are happier, and better, when connected to others.

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.

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

The local community is very important in one's life; the feelings of identification with a place and people.

At the end of the day, humans are social animals and we are at our best when we get to do things with others who appreciate and enjoy what we enjoy. It's what keeps us human.

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

Technology is best when it brings people together.

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

The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food.

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

For me, Los Angeles, New York, where I don't know my neighbors, where people don't necessarily care if they know their neighbors, I'm missing things that truly fed my soul when I was younger, the exchanges between people, the caring and the shared history with people.

It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them.

Sports can bring people together in a way that politics cannot.