It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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.
What we definitely agree with Walter on is that filmmaking is teamwork. It's one of the only arts that is truly based in the work of a team. Anyway, Werner he told us a lot of practical things. How to hang a hammock. He'd circle a map and give us a notebook with directions to get to certain places that were out of the way. He told us to drink the river water and not use purifications tactics that only "New Age assholes" used. He said that if we saw piranhas, we should jump in and swim with them. We did all of this. We took his word as gospel.
It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
I think that's what being a chef is all about: camaraderie and teamwork. I never feel that it should be so cutthroat that you can't help the other chefs.
If you want to be great, you can't be great by yourself. You gotta to bring people around you. As the the challenge escalates, the need for teamwork elevates. The greater the challenge, the better the team.
Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
Personally I have never been able to understand why the head of a big business, whether it be the Nation, the State or the Army, or Navy should not desire to have very strong and positive people under him.
Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.
A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.
Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.
The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.
We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
If two people agree, one of them is unnecessary.
In a disparate world, children are a unifying force capable of bringing us all together in support of a common ethic.
Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents. I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and other have gathered the fruits. A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
Place the team above yourself always.
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.