Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Crandall

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Thomas Pynchon

Teamwork," Koteks snarled, "is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It's a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society.

Robert Heller

In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus.

Sandra Day O'Connor

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.

Robert Schumann

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Yogi Berra

Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.

Winston Churchill

When you're going through hell - just keep on going!

Woodrow Wilson

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Yannick Noah

It made me hungry. I feel like I'm in a program that really helped me individually as a player. I feel like I'm with a group of guys that are like my best friends.

Wilma Mankiller

Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.

Warren Farrell

Although our grammar schools are teaching a whole generation computer language to adjust to the technological needs of a Stage II [post survival-focused] society, we have neglected to teach this generation relationship language and conflict resolution skills to address the social and psychological needs of a Stage II society. And when it is taught, in countries like Germany, although called social competence it focuses on workplace teamwork -- still on survival, breadwinner oriented work goals.

Wangari Maathai

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

Wangari Maathai

I’m very conscious of the fact that you can’t do it alone. It’s teamwork. When you do it alone you run the risk that when you are no longer there nobody else will do it.

Kofi Annan

Let us be good stewards of the Earth we inherited. All of us have to share the Earth's fragile ecosystems and precious resources, and each of us has a role to play in preserving them. If we are to go on living together on this earth, we must all be responsible for it.

Kofi Annan

...let us continue to work together to develop and nurture in future generations a culture of human rights, to promote freedom, security and peace in all nations.

Rahm Emanuel

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

Lenny Wilkens

I never really had a chance to know the players individually... I thought when they were on the floor, they worked hard. But I never really got to know them.

Lee Iacocca

A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.

Latrell Sprewell

When I was put in a situation where I'm going there, you have to look at the team and the possibility that hey, we can probably do some good things over there.

Terry Tempest Williams

Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.

Terry Bradshaw

Bad attitudes will ruin your team.

Ted Koppel

If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is the foundation of human understanding.

Leonard Maltin

I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.

Robert Evans

The only way you can make a deal is if you're ready to blow it.

Walt Frazier

The star player must slay his ego and learn teamwork and communication skills before he can achieve the ultimate in sport

Walt Disney

I don't pose as an authority on anything at all, I follow the opinions of the ordinary people I meet, and I take pride in the close-knit teamwork with my organization.

Walt Disney

Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial life. The more diversified our labors and interests have become in the modern world, the more surely need to integrate our efforts to justify our individual selves and our civilization.

Walt Disney

Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. In my business of motion pictures and television entertainment, many minds and skillful hands must collaborate...T he work seeks to comprehend the spiritual and material needs and yearnings of gregarious humanity. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial life.

Ronald Reagan

By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things.

Ruth Riley

We knew what it was like to go without a lot of things, but we didn't mind, because we were going without those things together.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

A self-reinforcing upward spiral: performance stimulating pride stimulating performance.

Thomas A. Edison

If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.