Viola Davis

I don't know how I got a great husband. I mean, God just blessed me with that one. Because - trust me - before him, I was not making good choices. So I was just absolutely blessed. I just prayed for that man He's my secret weapon because he's so gregarious, and he's so filled with joy. Me? I can sometimes be more cynical, and I'm very shy.

American Actress

Elizabeth Gilbert

I am far more of a loner than people would imagine. But I am the most gregarious and socially interactive loner you ever met. The thing is, I am fascinated by people's stories and I'm very talkative and can't ever say no to anything or anyone, so I tend to over-socialize, to give away too much of my time to the many people I adore.

American Novelist

Northrop Frye

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

Canadian Critic

Rob Lowe

In spite of being professionally gregarious, in my nonpaid hours I'm a bit of a hermit. After being around a crew of fifty people for twelve hours a day on a film set, I really like my alone time, and as always, I abhor small talk.

American Actor

Niall Ferguson

I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an integral part of what it is to be human, and one does better work if one has a circle of friends that is active.

British Historian

Christopher Robin Milne

My father was an individualist, and I took after him. At school, however, one is forced to be gregarious. I didn't resent this, but I didn't particularly enjoy it, and whenever I could, I withdrew into my own private world.

English Businessman

Susan Cain

In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality, but mostly we admire the type of individual who's comfortable 'putting himself out there.

American Writer

Albert Finney

It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?

British Actor

Christine McVie

I dearly remember the old days... Fleetwood Mac had this one-of-a-kind charm. They were gregarious, charming and cheeky onstage. Very cheeky. They'd have a good time.

American Musician

Al Pacino

I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.

Gregarious often implies a positive and friendly character trait.

Positive Connotation

While similar to 'outgoing', some gregarious people can be reserved, opening up in comfortable social settings.

Not Always Extroverted

Culturally, being gregarious might be more valued in societies that emphasize communal living.

Cultural Perceptions

In zoology, gregariousness refers specifically to animals' tendencies to form groups, not friendliness.

Social Behavior

Gregariousness in animals is often a strategy for protection or collaborative hunting.

Survival Strategy

Some animals are gregarious seasonally or during certain activities like migration or breeding.

Not Always Permanent

 I'm gregarious I love people yeah I got to know that there's an exit strategy tell me I'm gonna be here and then out on the 16th I can handle anything between that and then I got to go touch the soil even when I was five four or five years old when people asked me in the mid sixties what do you want to be when you grow up I always said lighthouse keeper I've always been an extreme isolationist

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 are living through this belief system we have a belief system right now that I call the new groupthink which holds that all creativity and all productivity comes from a very oddly gregarious place so if you picture the typical classroom nowadays when I was going to school we

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 The second condition is that reasoners are members of a community of reasoners who can affect one another's well-being, can exchange messages, and comprehend each other's reasoning. And that's certainly true of our gregarious and loquatious species,

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 my oh my. That exacerbates and continues this model. The last thing is gregariousness. Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions,

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 and a lifelong resident of the village of Villagrande. He was a gregarious man. He loved to recount stories such as how he lived like a bird from what he could find on the forest floor during not one but two world wars,

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 we decided that, rather than have a robot replace the human to go to the party, we'd have a human replace the robot. We called it the Tele-Actor. We got a human, someone who's very outgoing and gregarious,

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 Finally, the metamorphosis is complete. The adults beat their translucent wings and take flight as a full-fledged locust swarm. In this gregarious phase, these long-winged, brightly colored creatures

Gregarious

To like being with other people, sociable.

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Describes animals that live or move in groups.

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Not Always Extroverted

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