Quotes About Cooperation

Understanding how your child reacts to transitions and changes is a key to winning his cooperation. If your child is slow to adapt, you need to know it so you can help him prepare.

Next time your child starts to lose it, say to her, "I am listening. I am trying to understand." This simple phrase, "I am listening," can help her to open herself to other alternatives. It can also help you to change an entrenched pattern of battle with your child because your willingness to work together is so evident.

For myself I am certain that the good of human life cannot lie in the possession of things which for one man to possess is for the rest to lose, but rather in things which all can possess alike, and where one man's wealth promotes his neighbor's.

My intuitive, feeling mind and my logical mind work in concert.

Most often they speak according to their kind – the deep rumble of oak, the whisper of the birch, or the singsong chant of the alder. The evergreen stands of pine have voices sharp as needles. But the forest can speak as one, when it must. When the trees so choose, they think with one mind. When there is danger, especially, they speak in one voice of a thousand echoes. I hate it when they do this. For the forest mind is always right, and will hear no argument.

Remember, Weed: The good of one tree is not important. The good of the forest is what matters.

I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.

dimensión social de la existencia humana. En un pasaje famoso afirma: «Las relaciones entre nosotros son como un arco de piedra, que se caerá si las piedras no se apoyan mutuamente entre ellas, y que se erige precisamente de esa manera».

A helping hand is better than a critical tongue.

Don't blow out someone's candle or you'll both end up in the dark.

One finger is powerless, but five form a fist.

On Earth, incidentally, civilization is the result of a group of humans coming together and suppressing their instincts.

The hardiest plant in the world is the purple saxifrage. It has delicate-looking flowers, with purple petals that seem as though they might blow away in the wind, yet it thrives in the Arctic. The flowers survive by clustering together, low to the ground, offering each other shelter against the hardest conditions on earth.

We have never been at war with ourselves. We never place the desires of the individual over the requirements of the collective.

Not everything is a war, sweetheart.' 'Of course it is

the war metaphor is misleading, incomplete—even arguably dead wrong. Your immune system isn't a war machine. It's a peacekeeping force that more than anything else seeks to create harmony.

If you want to be happier, if you want to live in a world that may be thick with problems but is at least a sunnier place where people are more decent to one another and more willing to cooperate and show kindness, just turn off the tube.

Marriage takes work, otherwise you're home together all day.

Every time you become a-better-version-of-yourself, the con-sequences of your transformation echo throughout your family, friends, business, school, neighborhood, church, marriage, nation, and beyond to people and places in the future. It is God who does the transforming, but only to the extent that we cooperate. God's grace is constant, never lacking. So our cooperation with God's desire to transform us is essential; it is the variable. Are you willing to let God transform you?

What keeps people together in dynamic relationships? A common purpose. Why do people break up? Because they have no sense of common purpose; or they lose sight of their common purpose; or their common purpose becomes unimportant to them. So in order to create extraordinary relationships we have to develop a common understanding of a shared purpose. But before we can understand the purpose of our relationships, we must first understand our purpose as individuals.

That list of yours… the enemy of my enemy doesn't have to be my friend, but it can still hurt my enemy.

Sober, a philosopher of science, has shown through convincing models that isolated, selfless individuals who come into contact with only selfish and violent individuals will be taken advantage of and tend to disappear quickly.4 Conversely, when such altruists group together and cooperate with one another, they have a definite evolutionary advantage over the selfish people, who also fight among themselves and therefore may slowly disappear from the population.

le rapport entre bonté et bien-être s'explique par le fait que l'homme est un « animal social » et que, de sa naissance à sa mort, son existence et sa survie dépendent étroitement de l'entraide et de la bienveillance dont il bénéficiera et dont il fera preuve à son tour à l'égard d'autrui.

It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.