Quotes About Teamwork

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

The outstanding coach is a teacher that gets all his squad to accept the role that he considers to be the most important for the welfare of all.

Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence.

Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.

You can overcome wrong technology. Your people have the initiative, they see the problem, no big deal ... you can't overcome bad culture. You've gotta change whoever is in charge.

Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing on each others' feet.

I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.

She loved cooperative vegetables.

as had been the situation on other commercial expeditions, I had been hired to prepare the mountain for the people instead of the other way around.

To the spectator the ex-Commando might be standing impassively, the meerkats clinging to him, his hand resting lightly on Surra's round skull, the eagle quiet on his shoulder. But an awareness, which was unuttered, unheard speech, linked him with animals and bird. The breadth of that communication could not be assessed outside a 'team,' but it forged them into a harmonious whole, which was a weapon if need be, a companionship always.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all credit for doing it.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

El secreto de mi éxito fue rodearme de personas mejores que yo.

For Alan Turing did not think of himself as placed in a superior category by virtue of his brains, and only insisted upon playing what happened to be his own special part.

Have you noticed how some project teams are efficient, with everyone knowing what to do and contributing fully, while the members of other teams are constantly bickering and don't seem able to get out of each other's way? Often this is an orthogonality issue. When teams are organized with lots of overlap, members are confused about responsibilities. Every change needs a meeting of the entire team, because any one of them might be affected.

As a programmer, you are part listener, part advisor, part interpreter, and part dictator.

At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats. • The Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985 So

Distrust environments where requirements are gathered, specifications are written, and then coding starts, all in isolation.

we work daily within our teams to advocate our ideas, modify existing practices, and suggest new ones.

Unless you work in a vacuum, you need to be able to communicate. The more effective that communication, the more influential you become.

You read poems about it, you hear stories about it, you hear Sicilians talk about being struck by lightning. We know there's no love of your life. Love isn't terrifying like that. It's walking the fucking dog so the other one can sleep in, it's doing taxes, it's cleaning the bathroom without hard feelings. It's having an ally in life. It's not fire, it's not lightning.

Nothing has happened in right field all season, which is why he was put there: a kind of athletic Canada.

there's no love of your life. Love isn't terrifying like that. It's walking the fucking dog so the other one can sleep in, it's doing taxes, it's cleaning the bathroom without hard feelings. It's having an ally in life. It's not fire, it's not lightning.