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Quotes About Teamwork

SEALs did some of their best work in the dark—and that wasn't just a pickup line. The
~ Laura Griffin
That's the key, you know. If you think about the pain to come, you'll just give up. So you take it hour by hour, minute by minute, and the only thing you have through all of it is your team." Elizabeth
~ Laura Griffin
She looked around the table. "All of you! You all worked together in concert perfectly. I am so proud of you! We did an impossible job, and we did it as well as it could be done. You not only worked together and did what was needed of you, you did more than a person can do, sometimes even more than a grown-up would do. I can't praise you enough. Thank you. And thanks to our heavenly Father.
~ Lauraine Snelling
If I let you get killed, the other bodyguards will make fun of me.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Even officers who don't approve of your lifestyle choices would still take you as backup over Kirkland, or most anyone else. They'd say how you're bad for shaking up with vampires and wereleopards, but in a firefight they'd take your vampire-loving, furry-fucking ass over most anyone else's.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Get here as soon as you can, and let me know which of the guys with you pissed you off and I'll help you play with him, between killing zombies." "You sweet-talking thing, you," he said. That made me laugh. We hung up with both of us laughing. There were so many reasons that Edward and I were friends.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
There were other marshals over talking to the local police, but it was just Edward and me standing in the middle of the scattered body parts. Maybe the others had gotten tired of looking at them;
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
We'll think of something." And then I knew the other marshals were too close to talk more, because Edward's face folded into a grin. His face lit with that charm that Ted always seemed to have. If there was an Emmy award for hired killers, Edward would so have won.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Enraged, the other crew members
~ Laurence Bergreen
The playground was a war of girls versus boys and now I feel shame cuz some kids must have wanted to stand with the other team, and some must have wanted new teams entirely, but the world was drawn for us binary in clumsy chalk lines, and we'd try to do better when we were in charge.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
WE ARE THE HORNETS, HORNY, HORNY HORNETS!
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Don't stride so, Russell!" Holmes whispered fiercely. "Throw your boots out in front of you as you walk and let your elbows stick out a bit. It would help if you let your mouth hang open stupidly, and for God's sake take off your glasses, at least until we get out of town. I won't allow you to walk into anything. Do you think you could persuade your nose to drip a bit, just for the effect?
~ Laurie R. King
It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.
~ Alexander Fleming
I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.
~ Sebastian Thrun
Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.
~ Willard Libby
People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones.
~ Donald Knuth
We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it's not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out.
~ Bill Paxton
I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art.
~ Steve Jobs
Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants." These days we stand on each other's feet!
~ Richard Hamming
The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas.
~ George Iles
Just like the cosmonauts and their pee plants, all we have is each other.
~ Arthur C. Clarke, Sunstorm
You can only rise so far by climbing on others' shoulders, you know.
~ B. Barmanbek, Culpa Innata
Mundane, boring stories--not interesting ones--are the ideal in an operating room.
~ Wolf Pascoe, Breathing for Two