Teamwork Quotations | Page 4

Sometimes you have to create the thing you want to be part of.

The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.

Movies always fascinated me. They are an endless source of inspiration. There are countless images by great directors that made a profound impression on me, and I see film as a sublime example of teamwork.

I've always had a great interest in sports that embody the values of commitment, hard work and teamwork - all values I strongly believe in.

You might reduce Lombardi's coaching philosophy to a single sentence: In any game, you do the things you do best and you do them over and over and over.

Teammates are there for each other even after the noise of the crowd is gone.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

The only thing I really, really want is for the U.S. to win again. Just to win another team gold. And, of course I would really want to win an all-around gold.

At the end of the day government is about teamwork and partnership and we will be proving that by working together.

You must have discipline to have fun.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's really teamwork, one guy supporting the others, and it's all for one purpose, and there's no flies in the ointment, for a while. And nobody conducting, it's all up to you. It's really jazz__that's the big secret. Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

Sure, there's no 'i' in team, but there is an 'm' and an 'e'.

Teamwork was more accepted 40 years ago.

Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.

...there are persons who seem to have overcome obstacles and by character and perseverance to have risen to the top. But we have no record of the numbers of able persons who fall by the wayside, persons who, with enough encouragement and opportunity, might make great contributions.

I never really understood that massive collaboration involving hundreds of people is what makes movies possible, and it's also why I would agree that curiosity is not the most important human trait; the urge to collaborate is. Heck . . . only we have the ability to cooperate to make like online communities and space telescopes and imaginariums and movies. So the great thrill of this whole experience [my novel being made into a movie] for me was . .. .seeing humanity do what it's best at, which ultimately is not competing but cooperating.

Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.

Teamwork does not come naturally. Let's face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn't one of them.

Teamwork is really a form of trust. It's what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won't achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues.

Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.

To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.

One man cannot make a team.

Visionaries have the unique ability to dream of what's possible and then make it a reality. We are excited to watch these visionaries use technology to help students develop skills in collaboration, critical thinking and teamwork that they'll need to compete in the global economy.

I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

I play for the intense challenges that the game on the highest levels present. The whole team enjoys playng exciting soccer for the fans and my part in that makes me feel good about myself. The whole concept of teamwork is what keeps us all going. It's my role to create scoring chances, and to come through for my teammates is extremely satisfying.

The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.

If you think you're always in control, then you're not going fast enough.

Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success.

Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.

They talked about teamwork. That's all it is. It's about team effort. No particular player trying to outshine each other. Playing unselfishly and believe. Good things will come.

'Teamwork' is the word that bosses use when they actually mean 'Do what I say'

Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.

My mentoring program is pretty specific, it's about self-empowerment, about being able to find solutions through teamwork. That's one of my first goals.

I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship.

This is God's work. It makes blisters and it makes sweat, but it's worth my time and it's worth your time....Working together as God's people in the world-I don't know of anything more rewarding.

Road racing at the moment because it's still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer and teamwork is important. I guess the same is true for track, it's just that I have used track this year as a training device to improve my sprinting in road racing.

Reorganizing can be a wonderful method for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you're the CEO.

Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group.

The key elements in the art of working together are how to deal with change, how to deal with conflict, and how to reach our potential...the needs of the team are best met when we meet the needs of individual persons.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

Teamwork requires that everyone's efforts flow in a single direction. Feelings of significance happen when a team's energy takes on a life of its own.

Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it.

No man is wise enough by himself.

You only win when you help others win.

Kobe was hell-bent on surpassing Jordan as the greatest player in the game. His obsession with Michael was striking. When we played in Chicago that season, I orchestrated a meeting between the two of them, thinking that Michael might help shift Kobe’s attitude toward selfless teamwork. After they shook hands, the first words out of Kobe’s mouth were, ‘You know I can kick your ass one on one.’

Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

I guess if a person didn't quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life.

Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone.

What we really need is for me to get hot and stay hot. When I go, this team really takes off.

This has been one of those years where we don't have any superstars. We have had good teamwork all year.

This is a great example of international teamwork focused on extending the protection provided by the Aegis BMD Weapon System.

People who are coaches will be the norm. Other people won't get promoted.

When all is said and done, teaching is what I try to do for a living.

You want to make sure no one gets hurt, especially in training type situations. So, teamwork is very, very important. That's why we had so many dry runs.

The French played better on key points -- even when we had break points they served perfectly. Our poor teamwork was not the reason for our defeat -- the French pair just played better today.

But was it wrong to put yourself first? That’s called survival, right? If you’re running for your life, you don’t get the luxury of being nice. They were going to learn that. It’s fine to wave the pompoms for teamwork—all for one and one for all—but when push came to shove, these guys wouldn’t be risking their lives for Chloe, maybe not even for each other. I was sure of it. Once things got worse, it would be every kid for himself. It always is.

Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations.

Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits.

Million Dollar Arm touches on many of the Safe At Home Foundations core values, such as children, teamwork and family.

What I learned from 9/11 that is really important, first and foremost, you have to motivate all the workers and understand that they've left their families to help clean up a pretty awful situation. Every time you have an emergency management situation, it's all about teamwork.

Two heads are better than one.

Many hands make light work.

If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.

The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Teamwork is not a matter of persuading yourself and your colleagues to set aside personal ambitions for the greater good. It's a matter of recognizing that your personal ambitions and the ambitions of the team are one and the same. That's the incentive.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

Together we have given the world the possibility of one day living on a truly mine-free planet.

The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.

I love the values football can teach. It gives young people a sense of how to defer present gratification for future success, it teaches self-discipline, it teaches teamwork, it gives them a bonding experience that can be hard to find somewhere else, it teaches the ability to process large amounts of information and apply it in real time.

I worry about America. For the first time in my lifetime, I'm worried about us, i'm worried about how our values to some degree have been eroded, of personal responsibility and compassion and teamwork. I worry about it, I worry about the fact that we're so divided.

Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.

I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.

Traditionally in American society, men have been trained for both competition and teamwork through sports, while women have been reared to merge their welfare with that of the family, with fewer opportunities for either independence or other team identifications, and fewer challenges to direct competition. In effect, women have been circumscribed within that unit where the benefit of one is most easily believed to be the benefit of all.

The lack of crispness comes significantly from a societal change in what's valued: a replacement of bold individual initiative with collaboration, consensus, teamwork etc. All that team-involved decision-making often leads to tepid solutions and a slow-moving organization.

The American Indians were Communists. They were. Every anthropologist will tell you they were Communists. No rich, no poor. If somebody needed something the community chipped in.

The world will be solved by millions of small things.

I’ve never sung anywhere without giving the people listening to me a chance to join in - as a kid, as a lefty, as a man touring the U.S.A. and the world, as an oldster. I guess it’s kind of a religion with me. Participation. That’s what’s going to save the human race.

In developing teams, I don't believe in rules. I believe in standards. Rules don't promote teamwork, standards do

If you have talent with teamwork, you've got a chance to be a championship team.

Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication

No individual can win a game by himself.

A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don't be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays alone. Success depends on your whole team being a single unit.

Teams, not individuals, are the fundamental learning unit in modern organizations. This is where the "rubber stamp meets the road"; unless teams can learn, the organization cannot learn.

Team learning is the Process of aligning and developing the capacity of a team to create the results its members desire. It builds on the discipline of developing a shared vision. It also builds on personal mastery, for talented teams are made up of talented individuals.

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.

...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.

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

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

Bad attitudes will ruin your team.

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.

Lavish praise on people and people will flourish; criticize people and they'll shrivel up.

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them. Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.