Quotes About Cooperation

When I had found a payphone in a suitably innocuous location, I inserted a phone card and punched in Tatsu's number. I could have just ignored him, but it was hard to predict what he might do in response to that. Better to know what he wanted, while maintaining the appearance of cooperation.

Our question is no longer how to exploit the natural world for human comfort and gain, but how we can cooperate with one another to ensure we will someday have a fitting, not a dominating, place in it.

the sine qua non of a stable human society, they had to understand that this was not possible except in the hands of fully mature people, people, in the modern idiom, who had "gotten over themselves.

Our question is no longer how to exploit the natural world for human comfort and gain, but how we can cooperate with one another to ensure we will someday have a fitting, not a dominating, place in it. What

At some critical point, accommodation and cooperation replace violence and exploitation, or humanity's fate is delivered into the hands of barbarians.

The wolf was the one animal that, again, did two things at once year after year: remained distinct and exemplary as an individual, yet served the tribe. There are no stories among Indians of lone wolves.

The reason of football is not to be the best but to be the best team

If society asks more of us, and arranges its social institutions appropriately, it will get more.

It specifically forbade cooperation with anyone who had been "a member of the Nazi Party and more than a nominal participant in its activities, or an active supporter of Nazi militarism.

All that this country desires is that the other republics on this continent shall be happy and prosperous," Theodore Roosevelt declared, "and they cannot be happy and prosperous unless they maintain order within their boundaries and behave with a just regard for their obligations toward outsiders.

Trotsky cut in: "'Collective leadership' is precisely when everyone hinders each other or everyone attacks each other.' (Laughter).

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

Pretending that the world's religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our world more dangerous. What we need on this furiously religious planet is a realistic view of where religious rivals clash and where they can cooperate.

If you want to have a more pleasant,cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, emphatic, consistent, loving parent.

Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.

If I am intellectually interdependent, I realize that I need the best thinking of other people to join with my own.

Unless there are good feelings between people, reasoning intelligently is almost impossible.

You can pretty well summarize the first three habits with the expression "make and keep a promise." And you can pretty well summarize the next three habits with the expression "involve others in the problem and work out the solution together.

It builds weakness in the person forced to acquiesce, stunting the development of independent reasoning, growth, and internal discipline. And finally, it builds weakness in the relationship. Fear replaces cooperation, and both people involved become more arbitrary and defensive.

What is synergy? Simply defined, it means that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. It

You can only achieve Win/Win solutions with Win/Win processes—the end and the means are the same.

Interdependence is the paradigm of we—we can do it; we can cooperate; we can combine our talents and abilities and create something greater together.

Most of us approach situations with the win-lose mentality. "Winning" means somebody else loses. We're scripted with a scarcity mentality by win-lose athletics, academic distribution curves, and forced ranking systems. We look at life through the glasses of win-lose, and if we fail to develop self-awareness, we spend our lives competing for "dimes" instead of cooperating for "dollars.

The attitude was "If a person of your intelligence and competence and commitment disagrees with me, then there must be something to your disagreement that I don't understand, and I need to understand it. You have a perspective, a frame of reference I need to look