quotations about cooperation
Cooperation doesn't happen for the benefit of one person or to put one person on a pedestal and have them run the show. Cooperation is not about pleasing other people and rolling over when tough conversations have to happen. Cooperation isn't spineless floundering when the people around you or over you need to be told something tough. Cooperation is thinking of others, hearing others, and finding middle ground. Cooperation is realizing where many can benefit from many different voices. Cooperation is knowing that many can grow by many getting to participate. Cooperation is a necessary shift.
JONATHAN PEARSON
Next Up: 8 Shifts Great Young Leaders Make
You cannot clap with one hand alone.
JOHN TAYLOR WOOD
Quotes to Nirvana
Without trust there's no cooperation. And without cooperation there's no progress. History stops.
RICK YANCEY
The Last Star
Cooperation is in fact the living and productive pulsation of the multitudo. Cooperation is the articulation in which an infinite number of the singularities are composed as productive essence of the new. Cooperation is innovation, richness, and thus the basis of the creative surplus that defines the expression of the multitudo.
ANTONIO NEGRI
Insurgencies: Constituent Power and the Modern State
Teamwork makes the dream work.
ANONYMOUS
The most effective form of creation is an act of cooperation, not force.
BRYANT MCGILL
Simple Reminders
The issues that confront us may seem so huge, so complicated, so difficult to deal with that it's hard to believe that anything we can do will have a meaningful impact. But there are a lot of us in the world. A lot of people doing a lot of little things could have a huge impact. And by doing something, we are also demonstrating that lots of people really do care.
MICHAEL NORTON
365 Ways to Change the World
If we are to be truly free, that freedom will come through cooperation and tolerance with one another.
A.J. DARKHOLME
Rise of the Morningstar
We can see that all the desirable experiences that we cherish or aspire to attain are dependent upon cooperation and interaction with other sentient beings.
DALAI LAMA
"Training the Mind: Verse 1"
In the end the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity. Indeed, since the creation of the first nucleated cells, evolution has proceeded through ever more intricate arrangements of cooperation and coevolution. Partnership--the tendency to associate, establish links, live inside one another, and cooperate--is one of the hallmarks of life.
FRITJOF CAPRA
The Web of Life
There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.
IDOWU KOYENIKAN
Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
Cooperation will solve many problems. Even freckles would form a nice tan if they would ever get together.
ANONYMOUS
Wise Words and Quotes
Cooperation is willing collaboration by free individuals in a collective effort that creates more value than it expends.
JAMES RAYMOND LUCAS
Broaden the Vision
Cooperation for mutual benefit, a survival strategy very common in natural systems, is one that humanity needs to emulate.
EUGENE ODUM
Basic Ecology
Possibly it may help us to realize that there can be no security for one unless it is enjoyed by all; that though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
What Eisenhower Thinks
Cooperation is an evolutionary riddle, as it defies the basic principles of natural selection. If during the course of evolution only the fittest survive, why should one sacrifice individual fitness for the benefit of unrelated others? Widespread cooperation in nature is indeed one of the most important challenges to Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection. Understanding the evolution of cooperation means understanding also the main evolutionary transitions that led from single-cell organisms to complex animal and human societies, and it is therefore little surprising that the subject consistently attracts attention across large contingents of social and natural sciences.
ATTILI SZOLNOKI & MATJAZ PERC
"Evolution of extortion in structured populations"
Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.
JOHN RUSKIN
Sesame and Lillies
One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery.
WALLACE STEGNER
The Sound of Mountain Water
All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR
Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study of Ethics and Politics
Cooperation is a higher moral principle than competition.
BRYANT MCGILL
Voice of Reason