Quotes About Cohesion

It's really difficult when you don't see much of a team and you're not familiar with how they play.

Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.

You've got to be extremely careful, because you could be with a great team, and you could be the product of a great team. There are some players that stand out despite the teams that they play on, and there are some players that are good because of the team that they're with.

I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'

I've been lucky enough to play on NBA teams I really enjoy, teams where I've liked everybody and had fun, and had that college kind of experience with an NBA team. When you have that, and I don't know that everyone does, but when I've had it, that's what it's all about.

When you look at Jerry Sloan teams, they're all very disciplined. They execute well. They play within themselves.

Great teams, you see players working off of wavelengths. Telepathic, not even actual physical things.

We want people that fit in our locker room. As I said, it's all about teamwork.

I've never been one to tear the social fabric.

As long as my players show respect - not for me, but for the locker room, their team-mates and the club - I will tear my heart out of my chest and let them play keepy-uppy with it.

The fact that everything ever works perfectly together, anybody who tells you that is pulling your leg.

The intent is to shatter cohesion, produce paralysis, and bring about collapse of the adversary by generating confusion, disorder, panic, and chaos.

Serendipitous connections become less likely as increased communication narrows our tastes and interests. Knowing and caring more and more about less and less. This tendency may increase productivity in a narrow sense while decreasing social cohesion.

Wittingly or not, Cynthia's laughter imposed a sort of obligation: smile back or seem hostile. Robin remembered a documentary on monkeys she had watched one night when she was too tired to get up and go to bed: chimps, too, laughed back at each other to signal social cohesion.

The old Spanish revolutionary slogan, 'un pueblo unido jamás será vencido' ('a people, united, will never be defeated') applies less to the divided countries of the continent than to almost any other.

And without shared culture, civilization is doomed.

Political order, in short, requires cultural unity, something that politics itself can never provide.

So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instrument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind us no longer.

As a team, they were unbeatable and far more than the sum of their parts.

The unit had organized itself like a small-market baseball team enjoying an unlikely pennant run: talented journeymen working together, no stars, no egos, mutually supportive, and above all ruthlessly and relentlessly effective.

rule...." "Ours not

...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society.