Quotes About Cohesion

By Allah! Never have I seen the discipline I've seen this day, and in men who have come from here, there and everywhere . . . No, not among the noble Persians, nor the Byzantines with their braided locks!

There is more to military units than hardware. There is the character of the unit's personnel: their strengths, experience, and knowledge, their ability to get along and work together amid the horrors of the battlefield. There is an almost undefinable quality. That quality is the Marine Corps' secret weapon. Their edge. That quality is their ethos.

an orchestra is unified not because all the instruments are the same, but because the different instruments are playing the same song. They are using their unique sounds to create beautiful harmonic textures.

It is not by chance that social democracy and welfare states have worked best in small, homogeneous countries, where issues of mistrust and mutual suspicion do not arise so acutely. A willingness to pay for other people's services and benefits rests upon the understanding that they in turn will do likewise for you and your children: because they are like you and see the world as you do.

The more equal a society, the greater the trust. And it is not just a question of income: where people have similar lives and similar prospects, it is likely that what we might call their 'moral outlook' is also shared.

The kind of society where trust is widespread is likely to be fairly compact and quite homogenous.

Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.

The alpha team." Incredulous

cooperation is "the only thing that will redeem mankind.

Die beste Strategie ist: immer recht stark sein, ... . Daher gibt es ... kein höheres und einfacheres Gesetz für die Strategie als das: seine Kräfte zusammenhalten.

Just as a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, a group is only as strong as its weakest member.

I'm me. I'm just out there being myself. I like having fun. But at the same time, I bring everybody together. So I'm really -- or I try to be -- like the glue of the team.

I've noticed and interesting thing. When some star players are interviewed after a game, they say we , they are part of the team and they think of themselves that way. When others are interviewed, they say I and they refer to their teammates as something apart from themselves - as people who are privileged to participate in their greatness.

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

Any heterogeneous society faces a risk of fragmentation. This

The boom has not secured social cohesion. Instead, it has encouraged a mass outbreak of social climbing. Deregulation has taught Australians to see their self-worth through bricks-and-mortar and the size of the bribe they can extract from government. Avarice is the new black, and the political system has sanctified it with the term 'aspirational voting'.

We need an activism of cohesion. We need an activism that doesn't separate Americans into like-minded factions but brings Americans together across tribal lines.

We are one. Man, horse, lance, we are one beast of blood and wood and iron.

Birds of a feather flock together.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.

We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.