Bjork Quotes

Indeed, though people increasingly learn and interact online, we retain a fundamental need to engage in person.

I cannot live without people. I need to live my life with others.

Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.

Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to.

I like people.

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

When you're with real people, you don't have to be with virtual people.

It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media.

Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.

I think there's a fear of disconnect sometimes; communication is a huge issue for all of us, from adults to kids, as far as our face-to-face time and our ability to interact with each other without isolating itself to a phone. I think that has to be something that's very challenging.

The power of being in the physical presence of another person delivers real benefits.

Human interaction is something that I believe, as humans, we crave for. And that is where bars and social environments come into play.

A lot of gaming and a lot of interaction is no longer physical; it's all digital and at a distance. There's this innate, tribal need of the people to have face time with other people and play together in person. I think there's been this rediscovery of the joy of playing with people around the table.

I hope readers will consider, especially in this age of the World Wide Web, that as miraculous as it is, we still need to be in the same room with all five senses if we are to empathize with each other.

It is important always to remember that virtual contact cannot and must not take the place of direct human contact with people at every level of our lives.

I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, "Hi." They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.

When I was in college, I remember thinking to myself, this internet thing is awesome because you can look up anything you want, you can read news, you can download music, you can watch movies, you can find information on Google, you can get reference material on Wikipedia, except the thing that is most important to humans, which is other people, was not there.

What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.

loneliness has its own needs!

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.

People are social beings and want interaction and social learning is the primary form of learning, just as word of mouth advertising is the highest form of advertising.

We need to walk, just as birds need to fly. We need to be around other people. We need beauty. We need contact with nature. And most of all, we need not to be excluded. We need to feel some sort of equality.

You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it... But now it has changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to nonpeople." - J.R. Isidore