
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
- Topic: Cooperation, Team
- Location: Yosemite National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
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He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.
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With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
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If you want the cooperation of humans around you, you must make them feel they are important, and you do that by being genuine and humble.
› Nelson Mandela
In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free.
› Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
› Albert Einstein
You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.
› Buddha
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
› J. C. Penney
Fundamentally, there are only to ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion — the technique of the army and the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation — the technique of the marketplace.
› Milton Friedman
Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves . . . But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.
› William James
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 Roosevelt
We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
› Margaret Mead
I let Ike run the country and I ran the home.
› Mamie Eisenhower
Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.
› John Donne
