Teamwork Quotes - Page 18

• The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.

  Walter Ulbricht

  Success, Congratulations, Benefits

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• Two heads are better than one.

  Unknown

  Educational, Kissing, Two

  John Heywood, Rudolph E. Habenicht (1963). “A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht”

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• I think that you appreciate that there are extraordinary men and women and extraordinary moments when history leaps forward on the backs of these individuals, that what can be imagined can be achieved, that you must dare to dream, but that there's no substitute for perseverance and hard work and teamwork because no one gets there alone; and that, while we commemorate the... the greatness of these events and the individuals who achieve them, we cannot forget the sacrifice of those who make these achievements and leaps possible.

  Chris Carter

  Dream, Perseverance, Hard Work

  Matt Hurwitz, Chris Carter (2009). “The Complete X-Files: Behind the Series, the Myths, and the Movies”, Insight Editions

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• 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.

  Pat Riley

  Effort, Feelings, Team Building

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• There's a misconception about teamwork. Teamwork is the ability to have different thoughts about things; it's the ability to argue and stand up and say loud and strong what you feel. But in the end, it's also the ability to adjust to what is the best for the team.

  Tom Landry

  Basketball, Strong, Coaching

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

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Coaching, Taught

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.193, Crown Business

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• A player who makes a team great is better than a great player.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Sports, Player

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• A football team is like a piano; you need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

  Phil Douglas

  Football, Men, Eight

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• Being human, we are imperfect. That's why we need each other. To catch each other when we falter. To encourage each other when we lose heart. Some may lead; others may follow; but none of us can go it alone.

  Hillary Clinton

  Encouragement, Heart, Needs

  Announcing Suspension of Presidential Campaign, delivered 7 June 2008, National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.

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• Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Dream, Team Building

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• 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.

  Michelle Trachtenberg

  Relationship, Make Or Break, Actors

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• Teamwork is wasting half of one's time explaining to others why they are wrong.

  Georges Wolinski

  Half, Explaining, Recreation

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• The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that.

  T. S. Monk

  Philosophy, America, Tolerance

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• The town, the team, it's a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don't have football as an out.

  Brett Favre

  Inspirational, Sports, Football

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview with Suzy Kolber, www.espn.in. November 24, 2004.

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• You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.

  Homer Rice

  Motivational, Inspiring, Sports

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• Team spirit elevates with a broad-based contribution to the group effort. It's especially important for the high-performing leader to avoid the situation of one or two people being the only contributors during a meeting.

  Andrew J Dubrin

  Two, People, Effort

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• Volleyball is one of the most interactive games going. It is a game of intuition, imagination, improvisation - but most of all, of reciprocity - of teamwork. There is no way to free-lance in volleyball.

  Marv Dunphy

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

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• To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

  Mitch Caplan

  Decision, Collaboration, Succeed

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• Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges things so that teamwork prevails: What one of us, even the most brilliant among us, misses, another of us, even someone much less celebrated and capable, may detect and rectify.

  Carl Sagan

  Mistake, Missing, Kepler

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• Bolton are an established team in the Premiership these days and well respected by the other sides.

  Mark Lawrenson

  Sides, Inspirational Team, These Days

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• Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Powerful, Technology, Team Building

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.9, John Wiley & Sons

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• A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.

  Fred Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

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• Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Discovery, Mind, Collaboration

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• An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.

  Robert Benchley

  Games, Preparation, Matter

  Robert Benchley (2010). “The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News”, Glendower Media

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• Real teams don't emerge unless individuals on them take risks involving conflict, trust, interdependence and hard work.

  John Katzenbach

  Real, Hard Work, Risk

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