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Quotes About Teamwork

How on earth are you able to do that?" He dropped her with a splash, and when she came up, he gathered her close. "I'm a SEAL, remember? We do the impossible, and we do it in the water.
~ Maya Banks
Okay, let me state right now that I am not a coward. I'm really not. But I'm not a fool, either. I think if you recognize that you are up against a force greater than your own, it is perfectly okay to run. It's not okay to leave others behind, though.
~ Meg Cabot
We'd be the Joystick Order. Out motto would be High Score for One, Pizza for All.
~ Meg Cabot
Be there, or Mal will find you," he said to his squat little lab partner, Le Fou Deux, as they both dissected a frog that would never turn into a prince in Unnatural Biology class. "Be there, or Mal will find you and ban you from the city streets," he whispered to the Gastons as they took turns stuffing each other in doomball nets in PE.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
The lesson, my son, is that we alone, no matter how skilled or smart or how rich, are but spokes and cannot move the wheel alone, only together can we do that.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
It's vital that we work together," he says. "Arguments will only slow us down." "We wouldn't argue if you didn't contradict everything I say. Hold on, I mean you if you don't want to hear anything I have to say. You think you have all the answers already.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
Sleep was our deadliest enemy. Every mountaineer knows that if you allow yourself to be taken down by that cold, it is a one-way ticket to death. There are no exceptions. Your core temperature plunges until your heart stops. So we yelled at each other, and hit each other and kicked each other. Anything to remain awake.
~ Beck Weathers
I also praise the cooperative efforts in our pediatric intensive care unit. In fact, this togetherness permeates every aspect of our program here, including our office staff. We're friends, we work well together, we're dedicated to alleviating pain, and we're interested in each other's problems, too. We're a team, and Ben Carson is only part of that team.
~ Ben Carson
In rowing," Tyler said, "sometimes there's one guy in your boat who slows the whole thing down. He might mean well. He might be trying as hard, or even harder, than anyone else, but it doesn't matter, he's weighing everyone down. We call that guy an anchor." And with that, the twins left the building.
~ Ben Mezrich
An army, I learned in time, needs a head. It needs one man to lead it, but give an army two leaders and you halve its strength.
~ Bernard Cornwell
An army isn't made of its officers, you know, though we officers like to think it is. An army is no better than its men, and when you find good men, you must look after them. That's an officer's job.
~ Bernard Cornwell
You don't buy a dog and bark yourself
~ Bernard Cornwell
When you're a member of a team, when I was member of a team, whether I ultimately agreed or disagreed, once a president makes a decision, everybody, in my opinion, has to go with that decision, or you shouldn't be a member of the team. Your reputation rises and falls with the person who's the leader of the team.
~ Valerie Jarrett
The Shield was only around for what? Two years? And we did a lot in two years. I think the fact that people even take those two years and put them up against the reputations of those other groups really says a lot about what we were able to accomplish in that short period of time.
~ Seth Rollins
I've got a reputation for being difficult, and yet with my crew and my cast, I'm super-collaborative and we get on really well, and they like working with me.
~ Lynne Ramsay
Movies require so many moving pieces to align that it really is a miracle that anything is made!
~ Marie Lu
I think a good rapport is required between actors for any film.
~ Yami Gautam
A lot of coordinated approaches are required to make a global operation work.
~ Naveen Tewari
I'd say it was always in me - it's just what's required of you is very different in the moment that you become leader. When you're part of a team, you defer, and you're there to support your leader.
~ Jacinda Ardern
In our group, it was a necessary requirement that one has to be able to collaborate.
~ Jacques Dubochet
I know what a championship locker room looks like, what a championship team requires.
~ Troy Aikman
It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you.
~ Ricky Ponting
There's not a lot of chefs in the kitchen and very few people are involved in 'Hot Ones.' There's no research team or anything like that.
~ Sean Evans
Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants.
~ Rick Bragg