Group Quotes

“He who masters the power formed by a group of people working together has within his grasp one of the greatest powers known to man.”
― idowu koyenikan, All You Need Is a Ball: What Soccer Teaches Us about Success in Life and Business

“A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.”
― Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“Human psychology is that anything you do in a group feels right. People as a group can kill someone and call it religious because it feels right to them. Religion and righteousness are not the same thing. Religion is about going beyond right and wrong and seeing things as they are without any prejudices and judgements.”
― Shunya

“Brian came in heavy at that moment on his guitar, the rapid, high-pitched squeal ranging back and forth as his fingers flew along the frets. As the intro's tempo grew more rapid, Bekka heard Derek's subtle bass line as it worked its way in. After another few seconds Will came in, slow at first, but racing along to match the others' pace. When their combined efforts seemed unable to get any heavier, David jumped into the mix.

As the sound got nice and heavy, Bekka began to rock back-and-forth onstage. In front of her, hundreds of metal-lovers began to jump and gyrate to their music. She matched their movements for a moment, enjoying the connection that was being made, before stepping over to the keyboard that had been set up behind her. Sliding her microphone into an attached cradle, she assumed her position and got ready. Right on cue, all the others stopped playing, throwing the auditorium into an abrupt silence. Before the crowd could react, however, Bekka's fingers began to work the keys, issuing a rhythm that was much softer and slower than what had been built up. The audience's violent thrash-dance calmed at that moment and they began to sway in response.

Bekka smiled to herself.

This is what she lived for.”
― Nathan Squiers, Death Metal

“The ship of spirituality or religion is not going anywhere. Eventually you must jump out of it into nothingness.

Only an individual can jump, not a group. Groups are nothing but people huddled together because of fear of nothingness.”
― Shunya

“Who who whose smell in the air of her room, whose fingerprints all over her friends’ secret places.”
― Tana French, The Secret Place

“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.” — Amy Poehler”
― Amy Poehler, The Art of Inside Out

“To practice in a group requires both a loosening of self-consciousness and a tightening grip on the rudder of sincerity. You have to care, and you have to let others see you caring. And you have to bear witness to their caring in turn.”
― Pam Grossman, Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power

“Teamwork is not a game for the selfish.
It is for those with the mindset that a win for one is a win for all.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“When you combine the judgments of a large group of people to calculate the “wisdom of the crowd” you collect all the relevant information that is dispersed among all those people. But none of those people has access to all that information. One person knows only some of it, another knows some more, and so on.”
― Philip E. Tetlock, Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

“After being harassed by a group of toxic police officers, I have always wondered how many others they were victimizing.”
― Steven Magee

“I was blatantly targeted for harassment by a group of toxic police officers in my twenties.”
― Steven Magee

“Workers Compensation lawyers are one of the most toxic groups of people I have met in life.”
― Steven Magee

“It is going to be a sad legacy of mankind that a group of toxic nerds destroyed society.”
― Steven Magee

“To build a fire, you need more wood.
To build a team, you need more people.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“It takes a company to start a company”
― Jordan Hoechlin

“Studies have shown that a team leader who is in a positive mood can increase a group’s enthusiasm, help it to channel anger more constructively, and even coax it to perform better on specific tasks.”
― Sam Walker, The Captain Class: The Hidden Force that Creates the World's Greatest Teams

“Those highlight moments forever seared in your memory: that too is group flow in action.”
― Steven Kotler, The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance

“There is no fun in doing something alone.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“It was through researching my disabling sickness that I concluded professional astronomers are a toxic group of people.”
― Steven Magee

“She was in hell.” Logan grabbed Blake’s hand, planted a foot against the giant’s thigh and heaved back. “We need to make sure she’s okay.”

“Nah-uh.” Blake shoved Logan off. “The record shows babe’s only safe in my arms.”

“Don’t be preposterous.”

“She’s plenty safe in mine,” Ayden said.

“You could burn her to ashes,” Tristan pointed out.

Matthias smirked, “I wouldn’t complain.”

“Because you’d be crying,” I said.

“Completely lost without me.”

“Oh, please.”

“I would be!” Blake said.

Let her go!” Logan hopped up behind Blake and got him in a headlock.

“Has anyone ever mentioned that you bicker like old women?” Eros asked.

“Sixty-seven times,” Jayden said.”
― A. Kirk, Drop Dead Demons

“We can now apply our lessons from our discussion of multilevel selection: if there are two levels of selection operating on a moral rule, then the strength of the different selective pressures will be critical in determining which of the two is more influential. If cultural competition decreases or moderates, then we can expect INDIVIDUAL-level selection to be a much stronger determinant. An interesting hypothesis thus emerges: if cultural evolution is genuinely multilevel in this way, then in eras of decreased GROUP competition, public justification of a rule should be a much stronger force in a rule's selection as it is competing for individual agents' endorsement against alternative rules. On the other hand, in eras of intense inter-group competition, we should expect that rules are not well-aligned with the moral commitment of individuals, but which are selected at the group level, may predominate.
This in turn, leads to another important point. In multilevel analysis, effective high-level GROUP selection inherently restraints lower-level INDIVIDUAL selection. There really is no point to invoking higher-level selection if it does not. In the evolution of cooperation literature, the point of invoking a GROUP-level selection is to restrain the success of INDIVIDUAL (selfish) agents so that within-group less adaptive, cooperative agents can thrive. A mammal can be seen as a case of GROUP-level selection, insofar as the possible strategies of individual cells are constrained by the adaptive needs of the GROUP (individual mammal). A cancer cell is precisely a part that has broken free of these restraints, and because of this threatens ultimately system collapse. We might say, in a rough and ready way, that restricting the social influence of INDIVIDUAL-level preferences (in which a rule's within group fitness is determined by its attractiveness to individuals) in order to secure system-wide functionality is precisely what GROUP selection accomplishes. If GROUP-level pressures are great, the rules will be less responsive to the aims of the INDIVIDUAL agents, and indeed significantly restricting their actions will be critical to the culture's success. When GROUP-level selection is strong, it is entirely appropriate to call a culture a 'superorganism.' In such a culture, rules will tend to be more restrictive, and public justification may be less important”
― Gerald F. Gaus, The Open Society and Its Complexities

“What I witnessed at the DeSoto Solar Farm were the actions of a large and very organized group of dangerous and fraudulent workers.”
― Steven Magee

“I will never understand why a group of police officers act as a firing squad on their victim.”
― Steven Magee

“Think in hashtags!”
― Steven Magee

“Write in hashtags!”
― Steven Magee

“Hashtags enable you to teach the internet what to tell people.”
― Steven Magee

“The logic behind these initiations provides an efficient solution to a pressing cooperation dilemma: in order for a group to survive, it must rely on the loyalty of its members.”
― Dimitris Xygalatas, Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living

“Costly rituals help communities grow stronger, and this can have major implications for their long-term survival and prosperity.”
― Dimitris Xygalatas, Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living

“Three of us?” says the woman on my left. “There are more than three of us. Everyone, say hi to Number Eleven.”

Sad whispers fill the air. “Hello, Number Eleven.”

“Hi, Number Eleven.”

“I’m sorry, Number Eleven.”
― Lilith Vincent, Pageant