Robert Ballard Quotes

Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.

In science your competitors are your colleagues.

The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.

Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.

Many of us are more capable than some of us... but none of us is as capable as all of us!

was not, like the fabled Goddess of Wisdom, the offspring of a single brain. It ought to be regarded as the work of many heads and many hands.

The element of teamwork is perhaps underappreciated.

My brothers and I early on said to one another that, as a collective, we could do far more than any of us could do individually.

It's not about someone making a difference on their own; it's about everybody pulling together to make a difference.

No individual can do it all on their own.

Teams that play together beat those teams with superior players who play more as individuals.

I'm not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

We will work as a group, we need to be a real team, that is the only way to go far

The ability for a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people can pull together as a team.

You have ... been told that science grows like an organism. You have been told that, if we today see further than our predecessors, it is only because we stand on their shoulders. But this [Nobel Prize Presentation] is an occasion on which I should prefer to remember, not the giants upon whose shoulders we stood, but the friends with whom we stood arm in arm ... colleagues in so much of my work.

And what I liked the most about any project was that when it was good, you had a bunch of people trying to accomplish something together who were all acting together as one - that's the most exciting time for me.

One man is not enough.

You can't win if you don't play as a unit.

I love work. I love putting together a group of people who are all doing the same thing. The commonality of purpose.

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

Collaboration is much like a birth. The song that springs forth resembles each one of us to a degree, but it's the kind of thing that would never be born from just one of us sitting down with a guitar.

It's not any one person. It's not any one coach. It's the team.

You're only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can't be a team.