Quotes About Cooperation

We will work with everybody for the good of New York.

Isn't that what we come into politics for? To say to people: 'You can do it, too - there is a chance to serve your community. There is a chance to shape it co-operatively and democratically, without fear or favour.' And that is what I tried to do.

Highlight reels are about that one person. After a barrage of highlight reels, you get the sense that you can do it without a team. But music thrived the most when groups were involved. People lose sight of that - that community makes the world run.

The team goals are always more important than individual goals. The ultimate goal is to win the Super Bowl and to do something special. The other little goals that you guys write up, those things take care of itself in the midst of playing football.

What you guys want, I'm for.

I think whenever you have a common goal with someone, you're going to bond. It's really hard to get two people together and be like, 'Hey guys, why don't you just bond!' But if you say, 'Listen, I need you guys to build this house, or I need you to do this or I need you to make this movie,' you'll get to work and you'll get close.

Chemistry's a word that people who make hires and decisions say, 'Hey, you guys go out and work on your chemistry!'

If we all act together - business, governments, NGOs and citizens and, especially, the young - just imagine the good we could create.

Mothers really were not built to raise babies not only by themselves, but with only a partner. For millions of years, a woman had much more than just her husband to help rear her young... This whole idea of 'it takes a village to raise a child' is exactly how we're supposed to live.

From a very young age, boys are taught that real men get into fights, say demeaning things about girls and women, show extraordinary athletic prowess, avoid looking studious, don't do anything to display supposed emotional 'weakness' and prioritise competition over cooperation.

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.

I call it 'The Breakfast Club' philosophy. There's something about being trapped in a dire situation with a group of people that you would never normally be trapped with.

I, along with many of my Republican colleagues, believe there is so much more we can do for those who are trapped in our social safety net programs. But we are limited by the level of discourse with which of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle are willing to engage.

We need to understand that in the end, if we're going to make a positive difference in the future, we can't have election cycles where one side, the middle and the right side, they talk trash.

Touch seems to be such an important tool for enhancing social cooperation and affiliation that we have evolved a special physical route along which those subliminal feelings of social connection travel from skin to brain.

One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.

Making a movie is a little bit like high school. Because everybody lives together, and you see each other every day, and word travels fast around there.

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.

If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.

I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one.

Concerned about re-election, interest-group reactions, the media, or fundraising, many legislators have found it in their interest to refuse to cooperate with members of the opposing party - or to treat them as enemies in some kind of war, in which the whole point is to defeat and humiliate them. But the American people have been the real losers.

It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.

Treat the world like a failed state; then you can understand the players needed to fix it.

The most crucial thing is to be considerate of the other members and treat them like family.