Quotes About Cooperation

Nos salvamos juntos o nos hundimos separados.» Juan Rulfo, México y los mexicanos

At the core of all societies, I will show, is the social suite: (1) The capacity to have and recognize individual identity (2) Love for partners and offspring (3) Friendship (4) Social networks (5) Cooperation (6) Preference for one's own group (that is, "in-group bias") (7) Mild hierarchy (that is, relative egalitarianism) (8) Social learning and teaching

Plagues reshape our familiar social order, require us to disperse and live apart, wreck economies, replace trust with fear and suspicion, invite some to blame others for their predicament, embolden liars, and cause grief. But plagues also elicit kindness, cooperation, sacrifice, and ingenuity.

The fundamental reason is that we each carry within us an evolutionary blueprint for making a good society.

The experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us."11

you'll need someone's help to get it. If people like you, they will be disposed to give you their time and their efforts. And the better the quality of rapport you have with them, the higher the level of their cooperation.

Other people can also help you take care of your needs and desires. Whatever

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

The left often refers nonjudgmentally to "sex workers" and tends to be tolerant of transactions among consenting adults. The right, joined by some feminists, refers to "prostitutes" or "prostituted women" and argues that prostitution is inherently demeaning and offensive. The result of this bickering is a lack of cooperation in combatting what everybody believes is abhorrent: forced prostitution and child prostitution.

Co-creation suggests the interaction of individuals within a framework to evolve, re-define or invent something that is new.

The US State Department cables Bradley Manning leaked to Julian Assange contained the names of Afghans who had helped allied forces fight the Taliban.

As the costs of storing and retrieving information have collapsed, sharing expertise ought to be easy. But the cooperative approach based on openness and trust undermines the status of managers, whose wealth depends on the ability to create the impression that they have knowledge that their subordinates cannot be trusted to share.

I don't try to make the sound better. Trying is not the way to do it. The way to do it is to find a medium by which you can create a sound through these other guys and myself by that medium.

Millennia of endless warfare can be prevented!

Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy.

Everybody hated the Chinese, and the Chinese, ever willing to oblige, reciprocated.

When I was young, it was about winning, about making the other do what I want. But sometime in the last ten years…Well, I changed." She didn't look at Eric, but I got the impression their feet were touching under the table. "Now instead of charging at people, sword drawn, I find it much more enjoyable and productive to run alongside them, learn their stride and rhythm, whether or not we could run together in the long term.

Trouble meant they had to listen, not fight.

En este siglo toda empresa colectiva edifica prisiones. Sólo el egoísmo nos impide colaborar en vilezas. Hoy los copartícipes terminan en cómplices.

It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.

People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.

I don't think there has been enough communication between the players and the tournaments. In one sense it's just as much the players' fault. Players talk between each other and in the locker room about things that can be improved and then when the time comes to talk and really do something about it they stop.

Flight from the communal spirit is death!