1. Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. ~Helen Keller
2. Clearly no group can, as an entity, create ideas. Only individuals can do this. A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas. ~Estill I. Green
3. Clearly no group can, as an entity, create ideas. Only individuals can do this. A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas. ~Estill I. Green
4. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. ~Henry Ford
5. Community is built when we are willing to stand up for and protect each other in times of need.
6. 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 myself. ~Alexander Graham Bell
7. 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 myself. ~Alexander Graham Bell
8. If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. ~Isaac Newton
9. If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. ~Isaac Newton
10. If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. ~George Bernard Shaw
11. In the great debate about whether creativity works best with individuals or groups, here are some thoughts about doing it with more than one person. In practice, groups can be both better and worse than individuals, as they can both build off each others’ ideas and also squash new thoughts before they even become an idea. ~Unknown
12. In the long history of humankind ~and animal-kind too those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. ~Charles Darwin
13. Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. ~Vince Lombardi
14. It is not a question of how well each process works, the question is how well they all work together. ~ Lloyd Dobens
15. It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought and perception of an individual. ~Alexander Fleming
16. It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak, and another to hear. ~Henry David Thoreau
17. It takes two to speak the truth–one to speak, and another to hear. ~Henry David Thoreau
18. Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
19. Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
20. No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. ~H.E. Luccock
21. None of us is as good as all of us ~Unknown
22. People who work together wll win, whether it be against complex football defences, or the problems of modern society.” ~Vince Lombardi
23. Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together. ~Vesta M. Kelly
24. So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth. ~Bahaullah
25. Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one. ~Andrew Carnegie
26. Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision; the ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. ~Andrew Carnegie
27. The Lessons of the Geese
This fall, when you see Geese heading south for the winter, flying along in “V” formation, you might consider what science has discovered as to why they fly that way.
As each bird flaps its wings, it creates uplift for the bird immediately following. By flying in “V” formation the whole flock adds at least 71% greater flying range than if each bird flew on its own.
When a goose falls out of formation, it suddenly feels the drag and resistance of trying to go it alone and quickly gets back into formation to take advantage of the lifting power of the bird in front.
When the Head Goose gets tired, it rotates back in the wing and another goose flies point.
Geese honk from behind to encourage those up front to keep up their speed.
Finally, and this is important, when a goose gets sick, or is wounded by gunshots and falls out of formation, two other geese fall out with that goose and follow it down to lend help and protection. They stay with the fallen goose until it is able to fly, or until it dies. Only then do they launch out on their own, or with another formation to catch up with their group. ~Dr. Robert McNeish, 1972
The Lessons:
It pays to stick together with others who are headed in the same direction we are;
It makes sense to share the toughest jobs;
Those who are breaking the trail need our encouragement;
People who share a common direction and sense of community can get where they’re going more quickly and easily, because they are travelling on the thrust of one another;
28. The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind. ~Thomas Carlyle
29. The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. ~James Baldwin
30. The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people ~Theodore Roosevelt
31. The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. ~Theodore Roosevelt
32. The secret is to gang up on the problem, rather than each other. ~Thomas Stallkamp
33. There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ~Edith Wharton
34. There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ~Edith Wharton
35. There is a creative act involved by the receiver as well as by the sender and that makes for innovation. Both sides are equally important. ~J. Kirk Varnedoe
36. There is a creative act involved by the receiver as well as by the sender and that makes for innovation. Both sides are equally important. ~J. Kirk Varnedoe
37. Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work: If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up! Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken. ~King Solomon
38. We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately. ~Benjamin Franklin
39. We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately. ~Benjamin Franklin
40. What we know about individuals, no matter how rich the details, will never give us the ability to predict how they will behave as a system. Once individuals link together they become something different ... Relationships change us, reveal us, evoke more from us. Only when we join with others do our gifts become visible, even to ourselves. ~Unknown
41. You cannot collaborate with another person toward some common end until you know him. How can you know him, and he you, unless you have engaged in enough mutual disclosure of self to be able to anticipate how he will react and what part he will play? ~Sidney Jourard
42. You don’t have a team until everyone’s been heard. ~Arturo Toscanini
43. You have to do it by yourself, and you can’t do it alone. ~Martin Rutte