Quotes About Cooperation

In all things social we can be as seperate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

it is the smaller, the petty, things in life that divide people. It is the great tasks that bring men together.

I have found in my dealings with the Negro race — and I believe that the same is true of all races that the only way to hold people together is by means of a constructive, progressive programme. It is not argument, nor criticism, nor hatred, but work in constructive effort, that gets hold of men and binds them together in a way to make them rally to the support of a common cause.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him. When I have read of labour troubles between employers and employees, I have often thought that many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.

wherever a school is actually teaching boys and girls to do something that the community wants, it is seldom that that school fails to enlist the interest and coöperation of all the people in that community, whether they be black or white.

There are some things that one individual can do for another, and there are some things that one race can do for another. But, on the whole, every individual and every race must work out its own salvation.

The white man who begins by cheating a Negro usually ends by cheating a white man. The white man who begins to break the law by lynching a Negro soon yields to the temptation to lynch a white man. All this, it seems to me, makes it important that the whole Nation lend a hand in trying to lift the burden of ignorance from the South.

I like being out front, doing what I do, but then I also like playing in a band too. I'd like to do stuff like I did with Deee-lite. I went out and played with them and they were the stars, that was cool.

While there continues to be differences, the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for solving those differences.

Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.

Competition, which is said to be "the life of trade," when pushed too far, is no less the death of it--and of the soul.

Bush and Koizumi forged the "George-Jun relationship," which rivaled the "Ron-Yasu" partnership struck by President Ronald Reagan and Japanese prime minister Nakasone Yasuhiro during the late 1980s and was considered to be the high-water mark for the two countries' relations.

There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.

This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first.

When you are rousted by the police, even with all my experience, you want to please.

They're cooperating? That's what they're claiming?" Chick was nearly apoplectic. "I should hold my own press conference." Like

When I was an assistant producer on A Current Affair. I booked you as an expert on the Robert Blake murder trial.' He turned to the spectators and bowed deeply. 'So, ladies and gentlemen, we've established the fact that I'm a media whore. Touché.' Another smattering of laughter. 'Still, Ms. Tynes, are you trying to tell the court that law enforcement was in favor of your journalistic twaddle to the point of cooperation?

The leader must have trust in the people he leads; trust that they will perform their duties well. The people in the ranks must have trust in their leaders; trust that they will perform their duties completely. The people in the ranks must have trust and confidence in one another; trust that each will perform their duties well as members of the team.

I guess it's like an airplane: they're the drag and we're the thrust, together we make the thing fly. Too much of us and we're nose-heavy, too much of them and we're tail-heavy—it's a matter of balance.

That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.

That proves something—that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.