Quotes About Cooperation

the Races could succeed in their efforts to maintain peace only by strengthening their ties to one another, not by distancing themselves.

our cooperation extends all around the globe. The next time you buy something—shoes, a computer, a bunch of bananas—look at where it was made. For most of us, it is impossible to survive without the help of thousands of strangers all over the world. We have never met these people, but they are enmeshed with us in globally extended networks

Life could be brutal, but that such brutality did not define life or its purpose, and that the sexes were not rivals, but meant to share together in the work and joys of life.

We cannot win in team situations or in relationships by ourselves. It is like trying to pick up a pencil with only one finger...Even if that one finger is extremely strong, it will prove almost impossible to pick up that pencil unless you use your other fingers or some other part of your hand. Teamwork is a bit like using all of your fingers. Each one is unique and contributes something different, but they unite in pursuit of a common goal.

A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.

William: I'm sure we can all pull together, sir. Vetinari: Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.

You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides you don't build a better world by choppin' heads off and giving decent girls away to frogs.

You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage.

I don't want to hurt you, Mistress Weatherwax, said Mrs Gogol. That's good, said Granny. I don't want you to hurt me either.

Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.

And yet we say this. Here is the cave at the end of the world, peace is made between dwarf and troll, and we will march beyond the hand of Death together. For the enemy is not Troll, nor is it Dwarf, but it is the baleful, the malign, the cowardly, the vessels of hatred, those who do a bad thing and call it good...

You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage.

Did she help people? Miss Level added. ... ... She made them help one another, she said. She made them help themselves. ... ... Miss Level sighed. Not many of us are that good, she said.

One person is nothing. Two people are a nation.

We—we spread out," he said. "Yes. We spread out. That's what we do." They moved carefully through the bracken. The sergeant crouched behind a handy log, and said, "Right. Very good. You've got the general idea. Now let's spread out again, and this time we spread out separately.

His job was to make sense of the world and there were times that he wished the world would meet him halfway.

Om helps those who help one another.

Well,' said Tiffany, 'there's too much to be done and not enough people to do it.' The smile that the kelda gave her was a strange one. The little woman said, 'Do ye let them try? Ye mustn't be afraid to ask for help. Pride is a good thing, my girl, but it will kill you in time.

If you ask 10 nomes to push four will pull and two will say pardon

The big trouble," he added, "is that everyone wants someone else to read their minds for them and then make the world work properly.

Decided to put aside ethnic differences in the cause of making more money.

Yes, but nomes aren't hard to make," said Dorcas. "You just need other nomes." "You're weird.

call it empathy. That means putting yourself in the place of the other person and seeing their point of view. I suppose it's because in the very olden days, when humans had to fight fir themselves every day, they needed to find people who would fight with them too, and together we lived—yes, and prospered. Humans need other humans—it's as simple as that.

Vimes had never got on with any game much more complex than darts. Chess in particular had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the kings lounged about doing nothing that always got to him; if only the pawns united, maybe talked the rooks round, the whole board could've been a republic in a dozen moves.