Quotes About Cohesion

She thought: When we are two, they do not notice us. They think us a match. What wisdom does a mob have? It is a hydra, an organism, stupid or dangerous in much of its behaviour, but could it have, in spite of this, a proper judgement about which of its component parts fit best together?

Only a clear, focused, and common mission can hold the organization together and enable it to produce results.

people's community.

There are three entirely consistent characteristics of groupthink: closed-mindedness, pressure toward uniformity, and overestimation of the in-group.31

It hardly ever attaches to any other sin except one, and is never heard from any organized group of people except one.

A shared vision is not an idea. It is not even an important idea such as freedom. It is, rather, a force in people's hearts, a force of impressive power. It may be inspired by an idea, but once it goes further—if it is compelling enough to acquire the support of more than one person—then it is no longer an abstraction. It is palpable. People begin to see it as if it exists. Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision.

When Michael returned to the Bulls in 1995 after a year and a half of playing minor-league baseball, he didn't know most of the players and he felt completely out of sync with the team. It wasn't until he got into a fight with Steve Kerr at practice that he realized he needed to get to know his teammates more intimately.

Morality was the preserve – literally – of the middle classes; those at either end of the social scale were not obsessed with the moral glue that gave a new class its sense of cohesion.

They weren't a special unit— just a group of guys who thought they were good, so they were good.

The most effective organizations are those that are held together by shared and enforced principles, values, and standards.

Maybe, I say, what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking.

We are so much louder together than apart. We are so much brighter together than apart.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation.

We need to pass conservative policy. And we can only advance our values when we are united.

If we have to battle through some adversity during the year, sometimes that can be the best thing for a team.

Even one player's performance can affect the entire team.

It's important for us to all be aligned with the same energy on stage.

It's great playing alongside Xavi and Iniesta because you know that you're always going to get the ball cleanly from them.

It can happen in football that you argue with somebody in training but when you are not even talking on the pitch something has to change.

It's easy to fit into a team like Arsenal.

We are all driven into the same fold.

Beginning with Liaquat, moving forward with Ayub Khan and culminating with Zia-ul-Haq, Pakistan's leaders proceeded to delineate a 'noble and eternal' ideology that would give Pakistan 'a tremendous power of cohesion and resistance', insisting that it was on the basis of Islam 'that we fought for and got Pakistan'. Islam, hostility to India, and the Urdu language were identified as the cornerstones of this new national ideology.

Family is what works.

esprit de corps