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.
My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever.
Creating open teamwork is the best way to encourage innovation.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.
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.
There is nothing antithetical in American history, culture, or traditions to teamwork. Teams were important in America's history - wagon trains conquered the West, men working together on the assembly line in American industry conquered the world, a successful national strategy and a lot of teamwork put an American on the moon first (and thus fare, last). But American mythology extols only the individual. . . In America, halls of fame exist for almost every conceivable activity, but nowhere do Americans raise monuments in praise of teamwork.
Many hands make light work.
Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value - democracy.
All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims.
I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
Winning isn't as important as doing well individually. You can't take teamwork up to the front office to negotiate.
Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.
When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive?
A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other.
If two people agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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.
You know how sports teach kids teamwork and how to be strong and brave and confident? Improv was my sport. I learned how to not waffle and how to hold a conversation, how to take risks and actually be excited to fail.
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.