Quotes About Cooperation

We are all having to move beyond what is comfortable. Patience is stretched. Personalities get in the way. Egos provide points of obstruction. It is never easy. We are learning to listen. We are learning to forgive. We are learning to go forward, believing what binds us together as a community is stronger than individual bickering points. And we are having a great time.

Sometimes, she thought, you've got to accept a helping hand. Sometimes you've got to admit you can't do it all by yourself.

We're not trying to mess

Mama does not like to make too many waves in the ocean. She told us it is important to be good to one another, especially now. She said the time has come when we must each lean on the other, so it is important to have patience.

when I try to impose my ideas on others and thereby refuse to allow them to think, I end up getting in the way more than I end up being helpful.

Most wars between individuals are of the 'cold' rather than the 'hot' variety—lingering resentment, for example, grudges long held, resources clutched to rather than shared, help not offered. These are the acts of war that most threaten our homes and workplaces.

The most important move consists of my putting down my resistance and beginning to act in the way I want the other person to act.

Would our organizations be better off if all of us were to turn outward in our work with each other? Yes. But this preferred state can be reached only if some are willing to change even when others do not—and to sustain the change whether or not others reciprocate.

COLLUSION: A conflict where the parties are inviting the very things they're fighting against

What's the purpose of our efforts at work?" "To achieve results together

Man ist nicht bloß ein einzelner Mensch, man gehört einem Ganzen an, und auf das Ganze haben wir beständig Rücksicht zu nehmen, wir sind durchaus abhängig von ihm. (S.199)

It's a team, that's what I mean. There's a lot of yammering going on about the women taking over. They're not taking over. They're moving in.

We all lose when we think that everything people in our party do and say is right and everything people in another party do and say is wrong. This is simply not true. If we think, speak, and act only along party lines, we operate like a machine without insight, without understanding, without compassion.

Thich Nhat Hanh: "The next Buddha will be a Sangha.

If the United States wants safety, it has to take care of the safety of other nations also. If Great Britain wants safety, it has to think of the safety of other groups of people. Any of us could be victims of violence and terrorism. No country is immune.

I don't want to see Jonathan lose at anything. And that's why together we're actually stronger as a team.

Whatever you want me to play, I'll just do it.

Sometimes when your coach draws something up, you just kind of go with it.

All 15 guys on every team want to play all 48 minutes. It's just kind of the way that every season goes.

It is not about just one player, it is about the whole team.

No record belongs to just one person, and there are no number ones outside of a group.

A magazine is not just one person. And a fashion shoot is the same!

I'm very much of the opinion that theatre is a collective art form, not just one person's vision.

You look at the years that the Giants have been successful, it really wasn't just one star that got it done.