Quotes About Teamwork

Leadership is mostly a power over imagination, and never more so than in combat. The bravest man alone can only be an armed lunatic. The real strength lies in the ability to get others to do your work.

The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.

Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.

I always love when everybody else is really bringing their game, because it's only going to make the movie better; it just makes you work harder and they work harder and everybody is trying to get their little bit in. It's competitive in a constructive way.

If appreciation is important to you in your relationship with your manager, realize that it is equally important to the people you manage.

Managers need to focus on people, not just tasks. They need to rely on others, not just be self-reliant. Managers are also team-oriented and have a broad focus, whereas nonmanagers succeed by having a narrow focus and being detail-oriented.

but if you enjoy their company and respect their feelings, you'll be much more effective in your job

We believe how you plant, where you plant and who you plant with are crucial elements to reaping the best fruits and results at harvest for any business

We have more coaches on the sidelines than we have players on the field.

Stella, Nathan, and Steven looked at each other in the beams of their headlamps, which they'd clicked on as the twilight thickened. The wind moved the trees again. Darkness was growing complete. The rain was turning to sleet. Despite the sweat over her body, Stella's hands were numb with cold, and her fingers were growing uncooperative. A recipe for hypothermia.

taunted me with a bottle, saying they would push it up my butt. I was terrified that if I was the only one who stuck my neck out and told the truth of what we all saw, I'd be outed and worse. I honestly believed they might beat and kill me if I came forward and ratted on them and Jon and the other team members.

Don't you remember telling me that you're the brain and I'm the brawn? Naturally I expect you to do all the talking. And naturally I shall knockheads and toss people out of windows as required. Or did I misunderstand? Did you want me to think, too?

What makes for a good marriage isn't necessarily what makes for a good romantic relationship. Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane and often boring non-profit business. And I mean this in a good way.

Marriage isn't a constant passion-fest; it's more like a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane nonprofit business.

There's no crying in baseball! —Jimmy Dugan in A League of Their Own

They then spent the next two hours working, just two regular unicorns, getting through their to-do list.

A guy's definition of baseball: you don't have to buy the other team dinner to get game.

Stop, Kincaid said in a calm voice. Unclench. Unclench what? Murphy demanded. Unclench your ass. Excuse me? You're going to trip the beam. You need another quarter inch. Relax. I am relaxed, Murphy growled. Oh, Kincaid said. Damn, great ass then.

Karrin Murphy led the charge, and Sanya and I tried to keep up. She went through that sea of foes like a little speedboat, her enemies spun and tossed and turned and disoriented in her wake. Sanya and I hacked our way through stunned foes, pushing and chopping with unsophisticated brutality-and that big Russian lunatic just kept laughing the whole time.

Thomas barked out a laugh. There are seven of us against the Red King and his thirteen most powerful nobles, and it's going well? Mouse sneezed. Eight, Thomas corrected himself. He rolled his eyes and said, And the psycho death faerie makes it nine. It is like movie, Sanya said, nodding. Dibs on Legolas.

Form up, I murmured, because it sounded more military and tougher than saying, You guys go first.

Aye, Skipper!" Journeyman said.

You're with me today. I need someone to watch my back. Maybe to help me eat a hot dog later.

I'll talk you through, Kincaid said. Dresden, better take her gun and cover us. Hey, I said. I'm in charge here. Kincaid, talk her through it. Murphy, give me your gun so I can cover you.