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Quotes About Collaboration

Market society is a game where you win by making sure other people are better off with you than without you.
~ David Schmidtz
If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volunteers.
~ Kofi Annan
Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.
~ Dorothy Day
el amor no encuentra su sentido en el ansia de cosas ya hechas, completas y terminadas, sino en el impulso a participar en la construcción de esas cosas.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
A place that proves if you get enough talented people in a room, one or two are bound to offer some helpful advice. Kind if like monkeys with typewriters.
~ A. Lee Martinez
If your spouse is collaborating with you, you both might want to start with making changes in communication (Chapters 14 and 15), reducing anger (Chapter 17), and introducing new methods of solving problems (Chapter 16). If you are able to cooperate to determine more precisely what your spouse legitimately wants or doesn't want, likes or dislikes, you are in a better position to make those changes (Chapters 12 and 16).
~ AARON T. BECK
Just as man is not alone in what he is, he is not alone in what he does. A mitsvah is an act which God and man have in common.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
He is in need of the work of man for the fulfillment of His ends in the world.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
If you can't do the skinnin' the least you could do is hold a leg.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I suppose we couldn't realize, or could realize but couldn't accept, that the logic of business is not a logic in that sense. It's not only a narrow consideration of profits and losses, but a larger logic of, well, appetite. To buy something is to assert oneself, and to sell it, for whatever reason, is to collaborate in one's own diminishment.
~ Adam Gopnik
No one single person needs to be a genius or a visionary or even a great artist for the result to be permanent and to transcend generations. In the same way, the clubs we make are collectively smarter than the people we are. Reason, like musicals, emerges from the meeting of many minds.
~ Adam Gopnik
what is the work of one man, in a rude state of society, being generally that of several in an improved one.
~ Adam Smith
Each individual becomes more expert in his own peculiar branch, more work is done upon the whole, and the quantity of science is considerably increased by it.
~ Adam Smith
Comprenderemos que sin la ayuda y la cooperación de muchos miles de personas, el individuo más insignificante d un país civilizado no podría disponer de las comodidades que tiene, comodidades que solemos suponer equivocadamente que son fáciles y sencillas de conseguir.
~ Adam Smith
Romy had never done a budget, Marisol had never designed costumes and sets, and Suzanne had never acted, but when I asked them to help, they didn't hesitate
~ Adriana Trigiani
In every enterprise is no greater evil than bad companionship.
~ Aeschylus
In union, there is strength.
~ Aesop
United we stand, divided we fall.
~ Aesop
Two thousand scientists in a hundred countries, engaged in the most elaborate, well-organized scientific collaboration in the history of humankind, have long since produced a consensus that we will face a string of terrible catastrophes unless we act to prepare ourselves and deal with the underlying causes of global warming.
~ Al Gore
It's a conundrum. "Marketing is too important," said David Packard, cofounder of Hewlett-Packard, "to be left to the marketing people." On the other hand, marketing is too complicated to be left to management people who have little experience in marketing and who don't understand its principles.
~ Al Ries
The more people you have to ask for permission, the more dangerous a project gets.
~ Alain de Botton
The next library is a place, still. A place where people come together to do co-working and coordinate and invent projects worth working on together. Aided by a librarian who can bring domain knowledge and people knowledge and access to information to bear.
~ Alan Bennett
Tu gli dài l'istruzione, io gli strumenti per resisterle. Insieme formiamo quell'entità che il nostro preside adora: un «team».
~ Alan Bennett
No, in the end what persuaded me was simply Ã¢â'¬Â¦ that he had asked me. My father would have made such a decision on his own and only informed my mother after the fact. That Jae-sun sought my opinion—my consent—meant more to me than I could say. And because of that, I could not gainsay him this job.
~ Alan Brennert