Quotes About Cooperation

In a Trump administration we're going to go about creating a new relationship between our two countries [U.S and Mexico], but it's going to be a fair relationship. We want fairness.

I think that's my nature, to want to bring people together rather than to try to bombard them into agreement.

I used to play sports in school, but it was hard to do that because you're part of a team and you don't want to let your team down.

I wonder,' Trull said as he watched the momentary stand-off, 'if this is how domestication first began. Not banding together in a hunt for prey, but in an elimination of rival predators.

Life fears chaos. It was ever thus. We fear it more than anything else, because it is anathema. Order battles against dissolution. Order negotiates cooperation as a mechanism of survival, on every scale, from a patch of skin to an entire menagerie of interdependent creatures. That cooperation, of course, may not of essence be necessarily peaceful - a minute exchange of failures to ensure greater successes.

Sunrise smiled to himself at hearing Sweetlard try out that Malazan way of talking. 'Aye.' It's a good word, I think. More a whole attitude than a word, really. With lots of meaning in it, too. A bit of 'yes' and a bit of 'well, fuck' and maybe some 'we're all in this mess together'. So, a word to sum up the Malazans. He uttered his own sigh and settled his head back. 'Aye,' he said.

All life is sorcery. In its very essence, the soul is magical, and each process of chemistry, of obeisance and cooperation, of surrender and of struggle—at every scale conceivable—is a consort of sorcery.

pack and a disorganized band of fringe oscillators. When the system was self-synchronizing, Winfree found that no oscillator was indispensable. There was no boss. Any oscillator could be removed and the process would still work.

Whenever the whole is different from the sum of the parts—whenever there's cooperation or competition going on—the governing equations must be nonlinear.

It is astounding that Google, whose corporate philosophy is 'don't be evil,' would enable evil by cooperating with China's censorship policies just to make a buck," he said in a press release. "… Many Chinese have suffered imprisonment and torture in the service of truth—and now Google is collaborating with their persecutors.

men ran to fill all ten positions. To pull that off required the cooperation of men who would normally have been your rivals." "And the same thing will happen again this year, because the people will demand it!" Lucius thought otherwise

Our intelligence resides not in individual brains but in the collective mind. To function, individuals rely not only on knowledge stored within our skulls but also on knowledge stored elsewhere: in our bodies, in the environment, and especially in other people.

You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That is to help each other and not hurt each other.

We should be partners, not master and servant.

The very moment you will learn to appreciate what's OUR and leave what's THEIR, the wiser/valuable you become

To be human is to need others, and this is no flaw or weakness.

What might happen if we could somehow reorient ourselves toward our more loving, bonobo side rather than our inner mad chimpanzee?

In Bonoboville, the females gently but firmly rule the roost, keeping the males gentle and firm

Meet the bonobos, the rare and marvelous "make love not war" great apes who swing through the trees as well as with each other.

A family meeting is a procedure, and it requires no less skill than performing an operation.

I want you to understand that I never could have done the work I have if I had not had this woman at my right hand.

Its really important to have cooperative co-actors when you're working and specially when you are doing a daily soap.

A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.

I believe that soccer can be an example of understanding and peace between countries and between peoples.