Quotes About Cooperation

If they could redirect the energy they'd spent on trying to find fault with the other side and put it toward finding a new direction that worked for everyone, they could all benefit.

More than ever before, zero-sum scenarios where only one party wins often mean, in the long run, that both parties will lose. Win-win has become a necessary reality in a networked world. In a hyper-connected marketplace, cooperation is gaining ground on competition. The game has changed.

Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone. —Margaret Wheatley

Success in any field, but especially in business is about working with people, not against them.

by giving your time and expertise and sharing them freely, the pie gets bigger for everyone.

We human beings are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others' actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others' activities. For this reason, it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others. —the Dalai Lama

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

His understanding of the DNA code in all bands is that sooner or later the two principals will turn on each other because one of them will be driven crazy by the knowledge that to be at their best they need to perform with the other person and therefore they need that other person to be successful, or even to be heard. It makes you hate that person.

We're both pretty lousy, but together we are better than ten others.

Cooperation and conflict are two sides of the same coin, neither of which can be understood properly without taking account of the other.

Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.

Just think -- IBM and DEC in the same room -- and we did it. Makes you feel warm inside.

For rhetoric as such is not rooted in any past condition of human society. It is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic, and is continually born anew; the use of language as a symbolic means of inducing cooperation in beings that by nature respond to symbols.

Many times we're cheated out of the blessings God wants us to have in this life because we're not cooperating with Him. Instead of praying again for Sister Gray's healing, the congregation should have raised their hands and thanked God that she had been healed.

We may not agree on what a good society is, but... we will never have one until we realize that the public we complain about is us.

I want there to be a level of respect between everybody.

Given the choice between an extremely skilled loner and a competent-but-social programmer, XP teams consistently choose the more social candidate. The best interviewing technique is to have the candidate work with the team for a day. Pair programming provides an excellent test of technical and social skills.

Let us put our minds together and see what kind of life we can make for our children." — Sitting Bull I

I'm a uniter, not a divider.

Public opinion is the unseen product of education and practical experience. Education, in turn, is the function, in co-operation, of the family, the church and the school. If the family fails in its guiding influence and discipline and if the church fails in its religious instruction, then everything is left to the school, which is given an impossible burden to bear.

A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.

I am hopeful that Antarctica in its symbolic robe of white will shine forth as a continent of peace as nations working together there in the cause of science set an example of international cooperation.

friends don't threaten friends' distributor caps

True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.