Leonard Bernstein Quotes

The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.

I don't know, scene stealing is something I see as, people look at it, it could be a positive thing, but I really like to think of myself as a team player. It's kind of like one player can make the other teammates better, kind of like Larry Byrd dishing off.

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

I'm a born collaborator. This is what I was born to do, really.

I'm not some person who wants to be treated as a superstar and won't go out and help the team.

I like to be a team player. All the projects I do are collaborations. And I want to solicit the opinions and help of other people. I'm not interested in being the one in charge.

The greatest joy I get is setting up plays for somebody else. I take a lot of pride in helping other people make plays.

I feel like it's important to be flexible, particularly when I'm coming in late in the game and I'm connective tissue in the story. I'm not at the very center. It's important for me to have a certain kind of flexibility and try to help people do what they need to do.

Everything I've done feels like I'm just as much a part of it as if I was the producer. It's still the same job: all of us together figuring out the common good for a song. That's the only thing that matters. It's not like, "I'm the boss, and I'm gonna tell you what to play."

Coming together is a beginning, and staying together is progress, but only when teams sweat together do they find success.

The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.

I'm going to try to fit in where I can and play the way I can.

A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group - that's teamwork.

I know what my strengths are and what theirs are and what the three of us do is play for the good of the team.

... everyone must play his role.

Everybody gave 100%. I mean everyone, because they all knew that the film had the bones and the heartbeat of something that could be good. And everyone was in on it and wanted it for me and wanted it for Roger and Beau.

Team spirit means you are willing to sacrifice personal considerations for the welfare of all. That defines a team player.

To me, groups of musicians playing together, not fighting each other, but playing a groove together is one of the most exciting things to listen to.

I'm pretty, for lack of a better word, happy-go-lucky. I take things very seriously, but I'm very aware of people around me. I like to be part of a group that's working together towards something positive.

WE all have to play as a team to make the world a better place

Adopt a new philosophy of cooperation (win-win) in which everybody wins.

As your captain, I'm going to push you to not fall back on defense, but to play offense, and to play our match -- the Gospel, together.

It's more fun to play a good character with a good director and good actors around you. That's what makes it fun, and the more variety, the better.

Every time we interact with another person at work, we have a choice to make: do we try to claim as much value as we can, or contribute value without worrying about what we receive in return?