Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

For me, I don't really see a lot of the things I do as what I do, I see that as what our team does. It just happens to be that I'm the quarterback in those situations.

You've got to learn to work with others. One of my main values is, you learn this system of mutual benefit. That is, if you shirk and you try to make the other guy do more, he's going to do that to you.

I always say that I'm not the director, I'm part of the team.

It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.

You might be the leader of the team, but without the rest of the team, you're not doing anything. I think that's the way I look at my job as the lead of a TV show.

You can’t do leadership alone.

I know, for myself, I probably work a lot better in that - in the group environment. Only because if I am coming up short, someone else helps.

Whether your father, husband, son, or brother has been on the front lines, driving a computer or programming a tank, wielding a gun or a wrench, they are a team. No one moves, no one wins without everyone doing their job.

My fine friends who are perfectionists, each in their own world where they are petty dictators, could write a perfect bill. Those of us who have grown up and matured...understand that we have to work together on the big issues.

At the end of the day government is about teamwork and partnership and we will be proving that by working together.

With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership.

Don't believe anyone who says, "I alone can fix it." Americans don't say, "I alone can fix it." We say, "We'll fix it together!"

We fully realize today that victory in war requires a mighty united effort. Certainly, victory in peace calls for, and must receive, an equal effort. Man has learned long ago, that it is impossible to live unto himself. This same basic principle applies today to nations. We were not isolated during the war. We dare not now become isolated in peace.

I told them my system was based on the "ant plan," that I'd gotten the idea watching a colony of ants in Africa during the war. A whole bunch of ants working toward a common goal.

The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.

o, I don't want to say it's mine. Certainly, I'm leading, there's no question about that. But we have got a long way to go.

This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.

If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.

As a director, you're only as good as your collaborators. You surround with collaborators that are going to understand what you're trying to do. Not only that, they're going to push and fight for what you're trying to do.

From all of us Scarborough girls, greetings and thanks. This task required two, working together, trusting each other. It required the "us," not the "I." For that is true love, is it not?

There's really no honor in proving that you can carry the entire load on your own shoulders. Andit's lonely.

It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.

I’m very conscious of the fact that you can’t do it alone. It’s teamwork. When you do it alone you run the risk that when you are no longer there nobody else will do it.

Football is mesmerizing, because it's a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not as an individual. Players bond whether they're black or white, much as soldiers do.

If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.