John Dewey Quotes

Life is a big collaboration. And we can't navigate it alone.

There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.

I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.

Without social cohesion, the human race wouldn't be here: We're not formidable enough to survive without the tactics, rules and strategies that allow people to work together.

In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion.

I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.

Music teaches people to work together, which is maybe one of the most important skills.

We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way.

I've figured out that life in general is a team effort; it's a team game.

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Certain events make people come out of their little boxes and become part of the whole.

As we know, lots of people working together to solve problems doesn't happen often enough, particularly here in Washington.

We thought a human city is kind of like that watering hole. It's where different groups come together and have to find ways to live and survive and cohabit and cooperate, but they may not always see eye-to-eye.

We don't live in isolation. Most people don't like working in isolation - some do, but they typically don't end up playing Major League Baseball.

We're not playing solitaire out here.

You're not on your own. You're doing things with other people. This is very important for me.

We are a social animal, power only exists in a social sense, we have to work in groups.

Working with others makes us much more than we could ever become alone

We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.

Man is a social animal formed to please in society.

In this environment it was a simple matter for The Republic to maintain its structure. People did as they were told because they were working together, focused on a common threat, a shared enemy. But time passes. Fear becomes a memory. Terror becomes routine; it loses its grip.

Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages derived from peaceful cooperation and division of labor are universal.

One person is nothing. Two people are a nation.