Tim Sweeney 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.

A lot of people asked us why 'Journey' didn't let them play with friends or family, and obviously we had a reason - because that would have defeated the purpose of the game. But for a game to be truly be accessible to both children and adults and to men and women, it has to allow people to play with the ones they love.

Some communities are formed through schools, churches, workplaces. But much of how we learn about one another as a society comes from physically being together in places like skating rinks.

'Orange' is fun. Even when we're doing super-intense, emotional, or physical stuff, we're having fun. We're checking in with each other; we know about each other's lives and know each other's families and relationships. We're really friends.

There's an energy and intimacy around a foosball table that nothing else compares to.

As TV embedded itself into the national consciousness, it got us to remember how more than just the facts transmits truth and reality - and in fun, engaging ways. TV also showed us how telling our stories, confronting our own truths makes us and the people with whom we're sharing feel less lonely and alienated.

I love dancing in general and making girls dance. My generation doesn't do it enough.

What's great about games in particular is that it's a socially acceptable way for adults to imagine.

Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.

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.

Shallow communities are relatively easy to build.

The work of popular education, the temperance movement, the peace movement, are to a great extent carried on by the young. Their meetings show that the young understand one of their tasks: that of bringing together the different classes through social intercourse.

A city like London is sociable in a sense that there are people gathering in bars and restaurants, concerts and lectures. Yet you can partake of all these experiences and never say hello to anyone new. And one of the things that all religions do is take groups of strangers into a space and say it is OK to talk to each other.

That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.

You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.

It was through cooking food and sharing it with each other that our ancestors learned how to become social animals.

As a social primate species, we modulate our morals with signals from family, friends and social groups with whom we identify because in our evolutionary past, those attributes helped individuals to survive and reproduce.

I see dance as glue for a community.

People are much more loose if you are having fun. I had a basketball player who was really soft-spoken, and then we played Connect Four with him, and he really opened up!

Then I got together with my brother and a friend and we decided to play dates. The more we played, the more we wanted to do it. And it got to a stage where we wanted to do it all the time.

I enjoy the crowds. It's not that hard to talk to them, to have fun with them.

Games are the most social of all things on the web.

The best reason to go to the movies is to be with other people. Eating the popcorn, being with other people you don't know.

By my senior year in high school, I was friends with every group.

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