Quotes About Cooperation

The family that plays together.

If your primary objective is to bring the team into a state of harmony and oneness, it doesn't make sense for you to rigidly impose your authority.

There's no I in the word 'team,'" Tex would say. "But there is in the word 'win,'" Michael would counter with a grin.

To Fox, the reason we lost was simple. "A team always beats a group of individuals," he said. "We picked a poor time to be a group of individuals.

triangle offense, that aligned perfectly with the values of selflessness and mindful awareness I'd been studying in Zen Buddhism.

The people are living separately together," he said. "So there is responsibility. I cry, you cry. You cry, I cry. We all come running, and the one that stays quiet, the one that stays home, must explain. Is he in league with the criminals? Is he a coward? And what would he expect when he cries? This is simple. This is normal. This is community.

Tell him, we are not devils but we have friends who are.

When she saw how they worked, not on their own but two by two, working their trunks together to tie a knot, she realized why they'd been so astonished by her hands, because of course she could tie knots on her own. At first she felt that this gave an advantage--she needed no one else-- and then she realized how it cut her off from others. Perhaps all human beings were like that.

They could not have done it alone, but together they did it.

I think we need to tell each other everything we've found out. And it'll take us a good long time, and we might as well keep our hands busy while we're doing it, so

Nevertheless, he understood: this was work, and it was hard, but they were equal to it, all of them.

they could discuss without quarreling and cooperate without getting in each other's way

War is the enemy of civilization. We cannot grow through war, Xander. It drags us down, filling our hearts with hatred and thoughts of revenge.

A good rule to remember is that, in relationships, there are no win-lose or lose-win combinations: There are only win-wins and lose-loses.

with the Minister for Immigration, Harold Holt, and the head of his department, Heyes, who said the department would 'be very willing to co-operate', but the defectors needed to have 'satisfactory' health, be of 'reasonable age', be prepared to take whatever work was offered and should come to Australia as full fare-paying passengers in British ships.60 Subsequently, on 15 May

Developing an increased level of trust with other teams can enable the harder things.

woodland, cranberry bogs, hunting grounds, fishing spots, clay deposits, berry bushes, and medicinal plants were available to everyone. The people sometimes gathered as a community to harvest and sell these resources in bulk to fund public services like poor relief. One Massachusetts official, assuming that jealousy and selfishness were naturally the dominant features of all human societies, marveled that these places were "almost realizing the wildest dreams of the communists."48

free-market capitalism and free expression allow people to flourish and cooperate. Freedom encourages independence and responsibility, too, because it respects the fact the we are each individuals.

Maybe that's it, [...] [w]ith what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces. [...] Maybe [...] what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking.

Because that's the thing about mean people: They make you think that the world will never work, that there are divides that you will fall into if you approach. It takes a whole lot of good people to fill in the breach created by a single mean one.

Then it hits me. Maybe we're the pieces, What? Maybe that's it. With what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces. Maybe, what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking. Tikkun olam.

Is that okay?" he asks, backing down a little. "How about Tuesday?" I say. "Wednesday." His seriousness is cracking. "Tuesday and a half." "Tuesday and three-quarters.

These aren't two solos, this is a duet that isn't taking itself at all seriously.

Maybe we're the pieces, What? Maybe that's it. With what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces. Maybe, what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking. Tikkun olam.