Quotes About Cooperation

Peace in the world is everybody's business, no matter where you live or what you do.

[Millennials ] are sharing cars. They're sharing apartments. I'm not sure my generation quite knows how to take advantage of it.

Are you coming along peaceful-like, or am I going to have to hog-tie you and put you in the car?

Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.

If you have talent with teamwork, you've got a chance to be a championship team.

We're all in this together, all so interconnected that we can't awaken without one another. We

Nothing can guarantee that the community will not become a monster—especially if it does not put its own presuppositions at risk and listen to the other

Two hundred people, of course, can do a great deal more work than one man. But it does not follow that they produce and contribute more.

An organization is not, like an animal, an end in itself, and successful by the mere act of perpetuating the species. An organization is an organ of society and fulfills itself by the contribution it makes to the outside environment.

Each member of the enterprise contributes something different, but they must all contribute toward a common goal.

Is science a fundamentally cooperative enterprise, or is it a fundamentally competitive one in which scientists are out for personal advancement? According to Hull (and also Merton), science runs on a combination of cooperation and competition. Neither is fundamental, and the special features of science are due to an interaction between the two. This interaction arises from the reward system found in science and the context in which the reward system operates.

It's not just tougher out there. It's become a situation where the contest is how much you can destroy the system, rather than how much you can make it work. It makes no difference if you have a 'D' or an 'R' after your name. There's no sense that this is about democracy, and after the election you have to work together, and knit the country together. The people in the game now just think to the first Tuesday in November, and not a day beyond it.

from each according to his ability to each according to his need"

Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me.

The "good news" part of this point is that we can cooperate in salvation, as we cannot cooperate in creation.

Game theory says that the true source of uncertainty lies in the intentions of others.

A shared vision is the first step in allowing people who mistrusted each other to begin to work together. It creates a common identity.

we must allow multiple visions to coexist, listening for the right course of action that transcends and unifies all our individual visions. As one highly successful CEO expressed it: "My job, fundamentally, is listening to what the organization is trying to say, and them making sure that it is forcefully articulated.

It cannot be stressed too much that team learning is a team skill. A group of talented individual learners will not necessarily produce a learning team, any more than a group of talented athletes will produce a great sports team. Learning teams learn how to learn together. If

A Darwinian left, understanding the prerequisites for mutual cooperation as well as its benefits, would strive to avoid economic conditions that create outcasts.

But he lacked a sense of urgency at key periods, and lacked a firm hand when one was sometimes called for. His greatest strength may have proved his greatest flaw—one that finally sunk John Jacob Astor's West Coast empire. Wilson Price Hunt vastly preferred cooperation to confrontation.

in a struggle between two groups of people, the group with stronger norms promoting cooperation and the most people following such norms has a greater chance of winning.

It is much easier for equals to achieve the unity of purpose and to develop a common course of action. Egalitarianism enables cooperation.

In other words, theorists like van der Leeuw envision that a switch from hunting and gathering to agriculture creates a virtuous circle between problem-solving capacity and societal size, gradually leading to an increase of the scale of cooperation. I