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Quotes About Teamwork

An infantryman can fight only if somebody else delivers him to his zone; in a way I suppose pilots are just as essential as we are.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
There was a lot to be said for the job of assistant section leader—when you come right to it, it's a lot easier to die than it is to use your head.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Zeb should command while Jacob handled space-time controls—to each his own. Jacob had asked me to please take orders from Zeb with no back talk … which had miffed me a little.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
každá skupina je slabÅ¡í než jednotlivec, pokud nemá skvÄ›le natrénovanou spolupráci.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
She called out, All stations manned and ready, Captain! He looked at her and grinned. Stand by to raise ship! She answered, Board green! Clear from tower! Ready for count off! Minus thirty! Twenty-nine—twenty-eight— He broke off and added sheepishly, It does feel good.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
So Pike and his guys set up, dug in, and waited, night-vision goggles, commo buds in their ears, weapons locked and hot, good to go.
~ Robert Crais
Pike and his guys were hard-core professionals. Combat discipline was sacrosanct.
~ Robert Crais
Amber was cooperative once she got on board, and Tyson was docile. We grabbed Tyson's backpack and toiletries, and Amber stuffed a few clothes and toiletries into a tote bag. I watched what they packed, and checked their bags. Amber moved quickly once she got going, and didn't whine or complain. Tyson said nothing, and avoided eye contact. I grabbed two towels from Amber's bathroom on the way out, and tossed a towel to Joe. He draped it over his gun.
~ Robert Crais
The most debilitating characteristic of even the most well-behaved psychopath is the inability to form a workable team.
~ Robert D. Hare
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
~ Robert Frost
Men work together," I told him from the heart, "Whether they work together or apart.
~ Robert Frost
We shall creep out quietly into the butler's pantry-- cried the Mole. --with out pistols and swords and sticks-- shouted ther Rat. --and rush in upon them, said Badger. --and whack 'em, and whack 'em, and whack 'em! cried the Toad in ecstasy, running round and round the room, and jumping over the chairs.
~ Kenneth Grahame
While the Rat attacked the door with his stick, the Mole sprang up at the bell-pull, clutched it and swung there, both feet well off the ground
~ Kenneth Grahame
There are four common ways of making decisions: command, consult, vote, and consensus.
~ Kerry Patterson
The Pool of Shared Meaning is the birthplace of synergy.
~ Kerry Patterson
When we first trained people to deal with ability problems, it all seemed so simple. You ask others for their ideas, you get to hear their best thoughts, and they feel empowered. What could be easier? Who could possibly mess this up? As it turns out, there are several ways to go wrong. Here are the top three things not to do.
~ Kerry Patterson
In the worst companies, poor performers are first ignored and then transferred. In good companies, bosses eventually deal with problems. In the best companies, everyone holds everyone else accountable—regardless of level or position. The path to high productivity passes not through a static system, but through face-to-face conversations.
~ Kerry Patterson
One person can't hold anything, but two can have the world...
~ Kim Harrison
But he's Rachel Candy! -Both Jenks and Al
~ Kim Harrison
She's not much of a team player, more of a team yeller.
~ Kim Harrison
I can get us a body," Ivy said
~ Kim Harrison
When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell down most of the last part of the descent, and collapsed on the Rongbuk glacier, and he was crawling over it on hands and knees when the woman who was his entire support team reached him; and he looked up at her out of a delirium, and said, "Where are all my friends?
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Self-reliance my ass. We're fucking monkeys. It's always about teamwork.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Autosuficiencia. Y un huevo. Somos putos monos. La clave siempre ha sido el trabajo en equipo.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson