Quotes About Cooperation

Sabes?, en realidad solo podemos ayudar a alguien que quiere ser ayudado -digo.

you can only actually help someone who wants to be helped,

Margery experienced a brief moment of pure love for the people she had grown uo alongside, those who would not see a man-- or a mule-- struggle alone

Life is not a game of Solitaire; people depend on one another. When one does well, others are lifted. When one stumbles, others also are impacted. There are no one-man teams—either by definition or natural law. Success is a cooperative effort; it's dependent upon those who stand beside you.

NONE OF US IS AS SMART AS ALL OF US.

Life is not a game of Solitaire; people depend on one another. When one does well, others are lifted. When one stumbles, others also are impacted.

A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.

A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?

The world won't be taken over by guns and swords. It'll be with smiles and signatures.

pig and an elephant

We must, together as a nation, stop watching Fox.

My tribe deserves more than your tribe.

It's not easy taking care of one's self, determining nap lengths and all that, but with two people it's a manageable job.

In many different ways, the attack on values of collectivity and cooperation is articulated through the notion that freedom is to be free of any dependence on others, while in fact we are experiencing a more comprehensive subjection to the "free" workings of markets. As Harold Bloom has shown, the real American religion is "to be free of other selves.

human beings are 90 percent chimp and 10 percent bee.

Focusing on effective leadership without focusing on a willingness to follow is like studying clapping by studying only the left hand.

let's imagine that 95 percent of the food on Earth magically disappears tonight, guaranteeing that almost all of us will starve to death within two months. Law and order collapse. Chaos and mayhem ensue. Who among us will still be alive a year from now? Will it be the biggest, strongest, and most violent individuals in each town? Or will it be the people who manage to work together in groups to monopolize, hide, and share the remaining food supplies among themselves?

We humans have an extraordinary ability to care about things beyond ourselves, to circle around those things with other people, and in the process to bind ourselves into teams that can pursue larger projects. That's what religion is all about.

If you ask people to sing a song together, or to march in step, or just to tap out some beats together on a table, it makes them trust each other more and be more willing to help each other out, in part because it makes people feel more similar to each other.

We're all stuck here for a while, so let's try to work it out.

If we want to create welcoming, inclusive communities, we should be doing everything we can to turn down the tribalism [us-versus-them thinking] and turn up the sense of common humanity.

Studies show that intergroup competition increases love of the in-group far more than it increases dislike of the out-group.

Groups that were able to put their by-product gods to some good use had an advantage over groups that failed to do so, and so their ideas (not their genes) spread.