Teamwork Quotes - Page 21

• It's feeling the sense of responsibility, the sense of ownership, to step in, to try to solve any problem - and the humility to step back and embrace the better ideas of others. Your end goal, is what can we do together to problem-solve. I've contributed my piece, and then I step back.

  Laszlo Bock

  Humility, Responsibility, Ideas

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• My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren't able to look after yourself and each other, then people die.

  Bear Grylls

  Adventure, People, Mountain

  "Leading questions: Bear Grylls, chief Scout". Interview with Jane Dudman, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2011.

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

  Winston Churchill

  Hell

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• I guess if a person never quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life.

  Lance Armstrong

  Regret, Dodgeball, Tough

  "Fictional character: Lance Armstrong". "DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story", 2004.

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• If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

  John Cleese

  Fun, Business, Humor

  "Best New Games" by Dale N. LeFevre, (p. 9), 2002.

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• Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Inspirational, Success, Men

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• I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join Manchester United.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Player, World

  "United land other Ronaldo". www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2003.

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• If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

  Anais Nin

  War, Fate, Would Be

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• And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.

  Bobby Knight

  Inspirational, Basketball, Coaching

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• A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Jobs, Book, Writing

  "Please Welcome...Sharon Hinck". www.wherethemapends.com. October, 2007.

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• I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Sports, Falling In Love, Golf

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• Politeness is the poison of collaboration.

  Edwin Land

  Decision, Collaboration, Poison

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• The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.

  Tom Landry

  Motivational, Winning, Monday Morning

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• Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master.

  Stephen Covey

  Powerful, Technology, Tools

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• Don't get buried in the thick of thin things.

  Stephen Covey

  Buried, Thick

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• What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

  Stephen Leacock

  Motivational, Years, Creative

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• Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it...only business people think it isn't necessary to train.

  Tom Peters

  Thinking, People, Soldier

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• You cannot collaborate with another person toward some common end unless you know him. How can you know him, and he you, unless you have engaged in enough mutual disclosure of self to be able anticipate how he will react and what part he will play?

  Sidney Jourard

  Self, Play, Able

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

  George Lois

  Inspirational, Creativity, Bad Ass

  "'Damn Good Advice' From One Of The Real 'Mad Men'". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. March 19, 2012.

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• No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

  Althea Gibson

  Motivational, Teacher, History

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• When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it's time to turn out the lights.

  George Burns

  Inspiring, Light, Offering

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• The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Relationship, Leadership

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.75, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Place the team above yourself always.

  John Wooden

  Team

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• We want harmonious development, ... We should work together for more democratic and law-based international relations, and a harmonious environment in which countries respect one another, treat one another as equals, and different cultures can emulate and interchange with each other.

  Li Zhaoxing

  Respect, Country, Law

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• It's easier to be ignorant and say I don't know about the problem. But once you know, once you've seen it in their eyes, then you have a responsibility to do something. There is strength in numbers, and if we all work together as a team, we can be unstoppable.

  Craig Kielburger

  Strength, Eye, Responsibility

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