John Dewey Quotes

Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.

The more you play with the other players, the more you understand them and they understand you, and that's very important.

I'm really interested in how we understand each other - and whether we can understand each other.

How else are we going to get anywhere if we can't talk to each other?

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

Cedric, man, it's like if I'm working with you, like I'm sitting here now talking to you, I want to get along with you. That's how I am. I feel like if I get along with you, the work will be splendid.

It pleases me that people can be interactive.

The real energy occurs in each connection between two people, which can bring about exponential returns.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

For me, playing is about playing with other people.

You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.

I mesh with anyone.

It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

If you're sitting across the table from someone, the geometry of the situation says 'confrontation.' If you're walking with somebody, you're heading in the same direction, and the spatial dance you're doing is a little more cooperative.

Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress.

Understanding is a two-way street.

When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

There's shorthand that happens when you work with someone you know where you can almost finish each other's sentences. There's just a certain back and forth that becomes much easier with someone you've worked with for so long.

If you want help from partners, that means listening to them every once in a while.

You always have to come from the element of 'What do you have in common?' first. It makes it easier to work through your differences.

I love talking to people and finding out their opinion.

I don't like to work with people I don't have any connection with.

It's a very good thing to have a group that stays together and understands each other as well.