Quotes About Cooperation

the circuits that engage you — for example when you're having an argument about something fundamental with someone that you love. So you're trying to structure the world around you, jointly, to create a habitable space that you both can exist within. You're using the same circuits — the abstracted version — that our archaic ancestors would have used when they went out into the unknown itself to encounter beasts and predators and geographical unknowns.

A shared belief system, partly psychological, partly acted out, simplifies everyone—in their own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Shared beliefs simplify the world, as well, because people who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.

It takes a village to organize a mind.

I've never liked the word team . I've always equated it with being picked last and getting nailed in the groin with a dodgeball.

You got to ask yourself what's more important-- to try to do everything your own way and lose it all, or to ask for help so you can get what you need, when you need it. Always remember, you not here in this world alone. You got friends.

Mathematics, mostly, is a communal enterprise, each advance the product of a huge network of minds working toward a common purpose, even if we accord special honor to the person who places the last stone in the arch.

Pero aquí todos se me emborrachan igual. Si en lugar de matarnos unos a otros hubiéramos ido a beber, otro gallo nos habría cantado.

Nadie inventó el subjuntivo ni la conjunción copulativa. Fue una gigantesca interacción comunicativa, expresiva, hiriente o amorosa a la que pulió las herramientas lingüísticas.

We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

A naides tengás envidia: es muy triste el envidiar; cuando veás a otro ganar, a estorbarlo no te metas: cada lechón en su teta es el modo de mamar.

Patrimonio común de la sociedad, las ciencias no deben constituir un privilegio de castas herméticas ni es lícito que algunos hombres monopolicen, sus resultados en perjuicio de los demás. El único límite de su difusión debe ser la capacidad para comprenderlas; el destino único de sus aplicaciones, aumentar la común felicidad de los hombres y permitirles una vida más digna.

Europe is really a swarm: many bees on a single course.

Nasa isip ng lahat na ang gobyerno, bilang isang institusyong likha ng tao, ay nangangailangan ng tulong ng lahat, nangangailangan ito ng magpapakita at magpapaalam sa mga tunay na pangyayari.

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.

Give me your trust and confidence, knowing that what I seek is for the good of Fiji, for the good of us all.

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.

If it wasn't for good," my mother says, "we human beings would have been wiped out a long time ago. Either the monsters would have gotten us or we would have killed each other off with greed and jealousy and anger. So we have to believe in good. We have to look for the good in ourselves.

It is not hard work, because all work together... what one hand finds hard to lift is lighter than a feather when many lift together.

The only true and sustainable prosperity is shared prosperity.

She told them everything she could. Garvin asked all the questions; Scarpino, clearly the recessive gene, said nothing, took notes.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Between two each places stands a two-handed bowl, or ecuelle, which is filled with soup or stew. Two neighbors share the ecuelle, as well as a winecup and spoon.