Quotes About Cooperation

Communication implies intelligence, which implies an innate desire for peace.

Ha llegado el momento de dejar a un lado nuestras artificiales fronteras y unirse para hacer frente común ante la amenaza de la extinción. No es momento para hacer alarde de un nacionalismo estéril y obsoleto.

I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.

Each single gain feeds into the gains of the body collective.

You came to this clan willing to set aside your hatred or fear.

And you can't have two stars in one relationship. Somebody has to be willing to be the wagon...at lease some of the time

Okay, okay, already, I said, holding up both hands in an I-surrender sort of gesture. I'll try it your way from now on. I'll do the touchy-feely stuff. Jeez. You West Coasters. It's all backrubs and avocado sandwiches with you guys, isn't it?

his wagon to a star. He still thinks he's the star. And you can't have two stars in one relationship. Somebody has to be willing to be the wagon…at least some of the time." Oh!

Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first." ? Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

The lesson, my son, is that we alone, no matter how skilled or smart or how rich, are but spokes and cannot move the wheel alone, only together can we do that.

It's vital that we work together," he says. "Arguments will only slow us down." "We wouldn't argue if you didn't contradict everything I say. Hold on, I mean you if you don't want to hear anything I have to say. You think you have all the answers already.

We are like singers in a large chorus. If the guy next to us gets off key, must we? Wouldn't it help him, and us, more to strive to stay on key? We can learn to hold our part.

Healthy families resolve conflict without coercion, shaming, or violence.

The willingness to sacrifice is a necessary dimension of loving practice and living in community. None of us can have things our way all the time. Giving up something is one way we sustain a commitment to the collective well-being. Our willingness to make sacrifices reflects our awareness of interdependency.

Clearly, men need new models for self-assertion that do not require the construction of an enemy "other

The culture in which we live stresses looking out for number one. Without adopting such a self-centered value system, we can demand the best of ourselves while we are extending our hands to help others.

If we are to put an end to division, people from all political persuasions will have to stop fighting one another and seek true unity, not just a consensus that benefits one party.

We can help our nation quite a bit if we refrain from getting into our respective corners and throwing hand grenades at each other, and instead try to understand the other's viewpoint, reject the stifling of political correctness, and engage in intelligent civil discussion.

Compromise is most likely when both parties respect each other no matter how much they disagree. In stressful situations where you need a consensus, respect sometimes means saying nothing and refraining from name-calling even when irritated.

Worst of all, we seem to have lost our ability to discuss important issues respectfully and courteously and cannot come together enough to begin to solve our problems.

I also praise the cooperative efforts in our pediatric intensive care unit. In fact, this togetherness permeates every aspect of our program here, including our office staff. We're friends, we work well together, we're dedicated to alleviating pain, and we're interested in each other's problems, too. We're a team, and Ben Carson is only part of that team.

ownership of an idea makes cooperation with its tenets much more likely.

Class warfare is an artificial division created for political advantage, and it should be rejected outright