Collective Effort Quotes

• Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.

  Phylicia Rashad

  Inspirational, Birthday, Quilts

  "The Power and Solidarity of Women". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 09, 2016.

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• Individual efforts can bring excellence but only collective efforts can deliver effectively.

  Narendra Modi

  Individual Effort, Excellence, India

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• The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

  Terence McKenna

  Life, Dream, Imagination

  Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham (2001). “Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness”, p.48, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.

  Tom Peters

  Leadership, Teamwork, Kids

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• Those who have the most, who earn the most, must give an example, because that is important for Spain's collective effort.

  Luis de Guindos

  Giving, Important, Spain

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• Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.

  Willard Libby

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Science

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• Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.

  Albert Einstein

  Strength, Struggle, Animal

  Joseph Eger, Albert Einstein (2005). “Einstein's Violin: A Conductor's Notes on Music, Physics, and Social Change”, Tarcher

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• Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort.

  Robert D. Putnam

  Hero, Roles, Individual

  Robert D. Putnam (2001). “Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make anything of the collective effort of shaping their economic society, now expect fortune to descend like pie from the sky.

  Max Lerner

  Sky, Pie, People

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• The socialism I believe in isn't really politics. It is a way of living. It is humanity. I believe the only way to live and to be truly successful is by collective effort, with everyone working for each other, everyone helping each other, and everyone having a share of the rewards at the end of the day. That might be asking a lot, but it's the way I see football and the way I see life.

  Bill Shankly

  Football, Believe, Successful

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• Scientists contribute in a variety of ways and I don't think I can singular one even including [Albert] Einstein, that I can say that he's the best. We don't work like the best basketball player and the best musician and so on. Science is a collective effort.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Basketball, Thinking, Player

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• You're not really just a filmmaker that makes a movie good most of the time. It's everybody involved; it's a collective effort.

  Logan Lerman

  Filmmaker, Collectives, Involved

  "Logan Lerman on ‘Indignation’, His Intense Preparation, and Why Directing Is His Ultimate Goal". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. July 28, 2016.

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• So there might be a kind of collective effort that allows for those risks to be taken, pose a certain danger but not a suicidal one.

  Judith Butler

  Taken, Suicidal, Risk

  Source: ilga.org

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• I sincerely believe that the collective efforts of many secularists during the past generation, resulting in the expulsion from our schools and from the public square, has left us vulnerable.

  Jerry Falwell

  Religious, Believe, School

  "AFTER THE ATTACKS: FINDING FAULT; U.S. 'Secular' Groups Set Tone For Terror Attacks, Falwell Says" by Gustav Niebuhr, www.nytimes.com. September 14, 2001.

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• The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights

  Gloria Steinem

  Women, Struggle, Rights

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• We don't all have to believe in the same feminism. Feminism can be pluralistic so long as we respect the different feminisms we carry with us, so long as we give enough of a damn to try to minimize the fractures among us. Feminism will better succeed with collective effort, but feminist success can also rise out of personal conduct.

  Roxane Gay

  Women, Believe, Long

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