Daniel Barenboim Quotes

Within an ensemble, like in sports, if you do your little job, it makes everybody look good.

Collaboration is really important.

There are lots of ways to work together.

I'm one that likes to collaborate.

If they focus on me too often, somebody's going to be wide open. It's all about playing together and playing as a team.

Teamwork is a strategic decision.

Men and women are like two feet; they can help each other get ahead.

We all can't shine at the same time.

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

Collaboration is something I missed at one point in The Shins. I really wanted to have that experience again, you know, not having everything rely on me. I wanted to have a partner.

In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.

Music teaches people to work together, which is maybe one of the most important skills.

Companies are communities. There's a spirit of working together. Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves to be singled out as solely responsible for success.

Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.

People must work in unison.

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.

It's really nice to pass the ball when you're in an ensemble cast.

One of the things about a great team is that the whole exceeds the sum of its partners.

Le Mans is such a great race because you can never do anything alone. You have to work as a team member. And being a team member makes you a better person.

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.