Cooperation for mutual benefit, a survival strategy very common in natural systems, is one that humanity needs to emulate. — Eugene Odum
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization — Peter Kropotkin
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation. — Bertrand Russell
The fact is that co-operation between independent countries - to our mutual advantage - is the way of the modern world. — Nicola Sturgeon
In fact, collaboration, cooperation and resource exploitation are the things that will drive this knowledge economy forward so that we can solve these problems. — Naval Ravikant
Successful cooperation in or by formal organizations is the abnormal, not the normal, condition. — Chester Barnard
The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you. — Carroll Quigley
Group cooperation has probably been fundamental to the hunter-gatherer way of life for more than 2 million years. — Daniel Lieberman
It's not competition and greed that makes the world go around, it's cooperating and caring — Ed Mayo
We're all working together; that's the secret. — Sam Walton
People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them. — Allan Fromme
People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them. — Dr. Allan Fromme
With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership. — Paul Farmer
Short Cooperation Quotes
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. — Alexander Graham Bell
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. — Phil Jackson
Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously. — Mark Twain
Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation. — Ida Lupino
One hand washes the other and together they wash the face. — Turkish Proverbs
When husband and wife live in harmony, they can dry up the ocean without a bucket. — Vietnamese Proverbs
It takes two to tango. — English Proverbs
Community is not created by force. — Afghan Proverbs
Scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours. — American Proverbs
I like to play co-op against nature. — Andrej Karpathy
Cooperation Image Quotes
When you can't look on the bright side i will sit with you in the dark.
Teamwork And Cooperation Quotes
A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other. — Simon Sinek
The ability for a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people can pull together as a team. — Simon Sinek
Synergy does not mean giving up what we want. It means joining to co-create so each is able to receive ever more of what attracts us through joining rather than opposing. — Barbara Marx Hubbard
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation. — Mo Rocca
Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts. — Willard Libby
Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients. — Henry Dreyfuss
If you help others get what they want, they will help you get what you want.
Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable. — Chris Bradford
Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth. — Ken Robinson
Team Cooperation Quotes
The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together. — Lisa Fernandez
Life is not a game of Solitaire; people depend on one another. When one does well, others are lifted. When one stumbles, others also are impacted. There are no one-man teams—either by definition or natural law. Success is a cooperative effort; it’s dependent upon those who stand beside you. — Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
Acting is not about competing. Acting is about cooperating. Acting is about collaboration. It's about your utility, your usefulness, your capacity to add to the work that has already been done and will be done. You're just part of a team. I never feel competitive about acting. — Harrison Ford
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success. — Stephen Covey
We've been cooperative with the NFL investigation. We'll continue to do so and we will turn all our attention and focus on to the Seattle Seahawks, a very well coached, talented, tough, competitive football team. — Bill Belichick
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. — Halford Luccock
Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
I like working in a team, and at Ferrari there is always good cooperation. — Michael Schumacher
Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own. — Ludwig von Mises
Sure, there's no 'i' in team, but there is an 'm' and an 'e'. — Kevin Myers
People working together in a strong community with a shared goal and a common purpose can make the impossible possible. — Tom Vilsack
Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group. — Max De Pree
Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you're the CEO. — Max McKeown
He that does good to another does good also to himself. — Seneca
I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that. — Paul McCartney
Chris Cooper I got to work with many times. — Spike Jonze
We can't kill our way to victory, and no armed force anywhere - no matter how good - can deliver these keys alone. It requires teamwork and cooperation. — Michael Mullen
A hundred thousand men, coming one after another, cannot move a Ton weight; but the united strength of 50 would transport it with ease. — George Washington
It's better to have a great team than a team of greats. — Simon Sinek
Collaboration And Cooperation Quotes
Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others. — Alexander von Humboldt
Success takes communication, collaboration and, sometimes, failure. — Jessica Alba
Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement. — Barack Obama
Cooperation is working together agreeably... Collaboration is working together aggressively; and theres a world of difference between those two. — John C. Maxwell
Going with the flow is responding to cues from the universe. When you go with the flow, you’re surfing Life force. It’s about wakeful trust and total collaboration with what’s showing up for you. — Danielle LaPorte
It was about finding creative, original musicians. Musicians who are strong composers. Flexible, empathetic musicians, who are great individually but who also have a great sense for cooperation and collaboration, great listeners as well as great players. — Joshua Redman
There are reports that Russia is actually working with North Korea to encourage “collaboration and cooperation” between the two countries. Yeah, they believe that with Russia's economic power and North Korea's technology, they can be a real threat to 1987. — Jimmy Fallon
The speed of the Internet provides a fundamentally different perspective on how business relationships occur ... The approach relies on collaboration, not on competition ... on sharing information, and understanding what we as businesses do best. — Michael Dell
Once I accuse you of racist, I have demonized you, and it means any future collaboration, cooperation between us is a sign of my moral deficiency, if I would deal with someone like that. It's a terrible thing to do. — Mark Shields
We care about equality and democracy within the band and outside the band. For us life is about cooperation and solidarity, not about egotism, greed, or competition. This means that we prefer to work with people and bands that have a similar sort of mentality and attitude. — G.W. Sok
Economic Cooperation Quotes
The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force. — Milton Friedman
By 'socialism' I mean a classless society in which the State has disappeared, production is cooperative, and no man has political or economic power over another. The touchstone would be the extent to which each individual could develop his own talents and personality. — Dwight Macdonald
In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate. — Ayn Rand
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the area over which political power is exercised. — Milton Friedman
Each central banksought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world. — Carroll Quigley
It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world. — Lester B. Pearson
The great virtue of a free market is that it enables people who hate each other, or who are from vastly different religious or ethnic backgrounds, to cooperate economically. Government intervention can't do that. — Milton Friedman
Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion - the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation of individuals - the technique of the marketplace. — Milton Friedman
Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over good intentions. — Milton Friedman
A day of peace and sharing can lead to greater understanding and cooperation among political parties, faith groups, and people of different races and economic class. — John Conyers
International Cooperation Quotes
My sense is that we're welcome in China and we'll continue to work hard to deserve to be welcome. — Jensen Huang
Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world. — Jules Verne
There are five main purposes of central bank cooperation"..."the provision of international credits and joint efforts to influence asset prices (especially gold and foreign exchange) in circumstances where this might be thought useful. — William Smith White
China is ready to pursue cooperation of various forms with the U.K. and other countries in international production capacity and equipment manufacturing to synergize our respective strengths and promote each other's development. — Xi Jinping
Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples. — Christopher Dawson
The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us. — John Towner Williams
I am hopeful that Antarctica in its symbolic robe of white will shine forth as a continent of peace as nations working together there in the cause of science set an example of international cooperation. — Richard E. Byrd
The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us. — John Williams
You can remain friends, even without EU membership. The Prüm Convention, according to which data for combatting crime is exchanged, is a good example of international cooperation. — Geert Wilders
Extremism and Islam are completely different things, we strongly demand the immediate release of the Japanese citizens unharmed ... The international community needs to respond firmly and cooperate without caving into terrorism. — Shinzo Abe
Helpfulness And Cooperation Quotes
This project would not only open up venues of cooperation in the oil and gas sector between the member countries but also help bring the people of regional countries together. — Amanullah Khan
So long as our relationship is defined by our differences, we will empower those who sow hatred rather than peace, those who promote conflict rather than the cooperation that can help all of our people achieve justice and prosperity. This cycle of suspicion and discord must end. — Barack Obama
In both cooperative learning and project work, the teacher encourages children to talk to one another. This helps them pay attention to each other's efforts and ideas. Children take to these kinds of exchanges very readily, but the teacher really needs to encourage this interaction. — Lilian Katz
Green strongly influences the heart and helps alleviate tension. Positive qualities associated with green are generosity, humility, and cooperation. Foods of the green vibration are all green fruits and green vegetables. — Tae Yun Kim
to feed, help, protect, comfort, console, support, nurse, or heal to be fed, helped, nursed, protected, comforted, consoled, supported, nursed, or healed to form mutually enjoyable, enduring, cooperating and reciprocating relationship with Other, with an equal to be forgiven to be loved to be free — Sarah Kane
Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it. If we fail to do our share, but rather choose to rely on self-will and self-direction, we shall not only get no help from the graces bestowed on us, we shall actually make it impossible for further graces to be given. — Aldous Huxley
You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help them to be better than without a conductor. And sometimes young talented musicians have to be encouraged. — Kurt Masur
It is a democratic uprising. I'd say a democratic revolution against imperialism and against capitalism. So the agreements between us, more than that, any cooperation means unconditional credit, while the US and some capitalist countries want to help us under conditions, under blackmail. — Evo Morales
[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways. — Timothy Keller
If you make a film normally it's all right, the distributors are helpful and cooperative. But if you make a film that's a little stange, a little bizarre, then all the time it's a struggle with them. — Dario Argento
Regional Cooperation Quotes
Indonesia is eager to cooperate with APEC member economies and with the business communities in the Asia-Pacific region. — Joko Widodo
Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges. — Hassanal Bolkiah
We cannot leap into world government through one quick step... The precondition for eventual and genuine globalization is progressive regionalization because by that we move toward larger, more stable, more cooperative units. — Zbigniew Brzezinski
I am in favor of increased communication and cooperation between countries, but it is more important that each country becomes responsible for its own actions, its own communities, its own economies, before starting to integrate in large regional or global supranational organizations. — David Korten
Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past. — Khaleda Zia
It is in line with the fundamental interests of the two peoples for China and Afghanistan to strengthen a strategic and cooperative partnership, which is also conducive to regional peace, stability and development. — Zhou Yongkang
In America, we need to develop communitywide structures of democratic ownership, we need to work out cooperative development, we need to work out participatory management, we need new ecological strategies developed at the local city, state, regional level. — Gar Alperovitz
Under our regional cooperation projects, we are building roads and bridges. The scope of regional cooperation [with China] is constantly growing. — Vladimir Putin
It is rather difficult to envisage a scenario that could change the domestic situation in the countries of the South Caucasus without solving the problems constantly hindering normal cooperation in the region. — Garry Kasparov
Both our nations [Malasian and American] are committed to building a regional order where all nations play by the same rules and disputes are resolved peacefully and this visit will be an opportunity to continue deepening our cooperation on behalf of regional stability and prosperity. — Barack Obama
Co-operation Quotes
Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation. — Yuri Gagarin
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change, that lives within the means available and works co-operatively against common threats. — Charles Darwin
There is but one mode by which man can possess in perpetuity all the happiness which his nature is capable of enjoying, - that is by the union and co-operation of all for the benefit of each. — Robert Owen
Nothing-was more degrading than for a woman to have to marry for a home. Love should be the sole reason. Surely those with a brain-to think, eyes to see and a mind-to reason must realise that the capitalist system must cease and a co-operative system prevail in its place. — Vida Goldstein
Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation. — E. Stanley Jones
The UAE’s policy will continue to champion peace and stability in our region and the wider world, supporting others and advocating for wisdom and co-operation for the good of mankind. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy. — Mahatma Gandhi
When we speak of the Path we mean much more than a course of study. The Path is a way of life and on it the whole being must co-operate if the heights are to be won. — Dion Fortune
Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks of creating productive employment, overcoming poverty and achieving social integration. — Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Relations between States, as between individuals, must be regulated not by armed force, but in accordance with...truth, justice and vigorous and sincere co-operation. — Pope John XXIII
Co-operative Quotes
God is always working through you; the important thing is to become conscious and co-operate. — Mother Meera
My guiding principle will be justice and complete impartiality, and I am sure that with your support and co-operation, I can look forward to Pakistan becoming one of the greatest Nations of the world. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The inside operation of Congress - the deals, the compromises, the selling out, the co-opting, the unprincipled manipulating, the self-serving career-building - is a story of such monumental decadence that I believe if people find out about it they will demand an end to it. — Bella Abzug
Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. — Bertrand Russell
The British Empire has advanced to a new conception of autonomyand freedom, to the idea of a system of British nations, each freely ordering its own individual life, but bound together in unity byallegiance to one Crown, and co-operating in all that concerns the common weal. — George VI
Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder. — Alexander Berkman
Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people. — Beatrice Webb
The Japanese tend to be far more co-operative and docile and group-oriented. It would be easier to get the entire population of Tokyo to wear matching outfits than to get any two randomly selected Americans to agree on pizza toppings. — Dave Barry
We are ready to engage in international co-operation against terrorism with a view to safeguarding national interests and regional security and stability. — Li Peng
We will not rest until we reach a permanent agreement [with the Palestinians] that would secure a safe future for our children and that would provide us with renewed hope to live in a region where people lead a life of co-operation and not, God forbid, where blood is shed. — Yitzhak Rabin
Collaboration Quotes
Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator. — Antoni Gaudi
The distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers — Lev S. Vygotsky
Millennials expect to create a better future, using the collaborative power of digital technology. — Mal Fletcher
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality. — Dalai Lama
Any artist that's as serious about making music as I am, I'm cool with that. But if you tellin' me, "Man, send me a verse and I'ma send you a verse." No. That's not collaborating. We don't know each other and I'm serous about this music. — Kevin Gates
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. — Andrew Carnegie
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. — Neville Chamberlain
...let us continue to work together to develop and nurture in future generations a culture of human rights, to promote freedom, security and peace in all nations. — Kofi Annan
For us it's much more becoming a story of How do humans and computers collaborate to actually create these vector space data sets? — Andrej Karpathy
It's a meeting between two personalities of different natures—the creative people and the organizers, water and fire. But out of the contradiction can come progress. — Bernard Arnault
Cooperation and conflict are two sides of the same coin; both arise out of man's relationship with his fellows. The larger the group, the greater the possibility of development through cooperation, and the greater the possibility of conflict. — Julius Nyerere
Every human being is a raindrop. And when enough of the raindrops become clear and coherent they then become the power of the storm. — John Trudell
The most effective weapon against crime is cooperation... The efforts of all law enforcement agencies with the support and understanding of the American people. — J. Edgar Hoover
... let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away, and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in a unity that is living. — Rabindranath Tagore
There is a great sense of community within the Montessori classroom, where children of differing ages work together in an atmosphere of cooperation rather than competitiveness. There is respect for the environment and for the individuals within it, which comes through experience of freedom within the community. — Maria Montessori
Mafia is a process,not a thing. Mafia is a form of clan - cooperation to which it's individual members pledge lifelong loyalty....Friendship, connections, family ties, trust, loyalty, obedience - this was the glue that held us together. — Joseph Bonanno
If you're fighting the system, then you're still caught in it. It's not about fighting the system; it's about ceasing to hold it together. Non-cooperation. We cannot be imprisoned without our cooperation. Their power is in our acquiescence. — David Icke
The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world. — Lillian Wald
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 seven principles of Kwanzaa - unity, self-determinat ion, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith -- teach us that when we come together to strengthen our families and communities and honor the lesson of the past, we can face the future with joy and optimism. — William J. Clinton
Whether we live together in confidence and cohesion; with more faith and pride in ourselves and less self-doubt and hesitation; strong in the conviction that the destiny of Canada is to unite, not divide; sharing in cooperation, not in separation or in conflict; respecting our past and welcoming our future. — Lester B. Pearson
Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia. — William C. Kirby
Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea, birds and plants surround us. Cooperation with all these things brings harmony, opposition to them brings disaster and chaos. — Bill Mollison
Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia. — William Kirby
It comes as a great shock…to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance…has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, and although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you. — James A. Baldwin
The real struggle isn’t proletariat vs bourgeois. It’s between high-status elites and wealthy elites. When their cooperation breaks, revolution. — Naval Ravikant
It is true that some people have some misgivings about China-U.K. cooperation. What I want to stress is that in today's world, no country can afford to pursue development with its door closed. One should open the door, warmly welcome friends, and be hospitable to them. — Xi Jinping
The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. — Tim Berners-Lee
To realize peace on the Korean peninsula, and to develop exchange, cooperation between both Koreas, they are the, you know, immediate target of our government. — Kim Dae-jung
We as a country have something to learn from Israel, especially in the areas of security and defense, and we will of course be doing that. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy
You may consider yourself an individual, but as a cell biologist, I can tell you that you are in truth a cooperative community of approximately fifty trillion single-celled citizens. — Bruce H. Lipton
The great artists throughout history are the ones able to maintain this childlike enthusiasm and exuberance naturally. Just as an infant is selfish, they’re protective of their art in a way that’s not always cooperative. Their needs as a creator come first. Often at the expense of their personal lives and relationships. — Rick Rubin
I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror. — Robert Stack
We need to scale up cooperation between APEC member economies on scientific and technological innovation, and foster an open, fair, equitable and non-discriminatory environment for the development of science and technology. — Xi Jinping
Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit. — Chen Shui-bian
William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir." Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions. — Terry Pratchett
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