Anna Popplewell Quotes

It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.

Human interaction in a complex environment is key to our [military] success in the future.

I like being around people.

Kev has these old Boston drills, where you all have to talk to each other, and interact, and it's helped us.

Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.

When you get together in a group, it becomes like a family, with the different personalities and the politics that comes with being in a band. It's different than bringing something in by yourself.

There aren't very many clubs. There's no place for people to develop and play.

The chemistry at a table is so important. You must start with a carefully balanced mix of personalities. If the balance is off, and the stakes are too big for some of the players, it kills the game. Too small, and everybody gets bored.

I'm a people person. I like being with people. So I like being a teacher, and so on.

When you're part of an ensemble and share the screen with so many people, you become close to them because you're hanging out all the time. Obviously you have your ups and downs, but that kind of brings you closer in many ways.

I remind myself that I'm always more satisfied by human interaction than by a digital connection.

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that's politics.

I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.

Above and beyond having the social life, to have a core group of people that you work with and spend time with and learn how to work with is a nice thing.

I want to bring back the human encounter into places where material things have a prime status. In a museum, you're supposed to look at things and not talk to other people.

Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.

I always have a ping-pong table in the studio. If you're with an artist and you notice the situation is going south a little bit, it's like, 'You wanna play ping-pong or foosball?' Or, 'You wanna go grab somethin' to eat?' And then you just like talk to them and relax them and get them comfortable and get yourself comfortable.

What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the human brain to have and monitor social interactions.

The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection.

The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do.

The biggest neurological turn-on for people is other people. This is what really excites us. In reward terms, it's not money; it's not being given cash - that's nice - it's doing stuff with our peers, watching us, collaborating with us.

People tend to work in teams, in a collaborative way, in an informal network. If you create an environment like that, it's much more effective and much more efficient.

Human relations, I mess them up, and they let me down.

As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone - to connect with one another. For millions of years our forebears must have sat around the campfire, whispering about everyone they knew.