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• A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

  Ayn Rand

  Motivational, Dance, Creativity

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.99, Penguin

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• Real teams are much more likely to flourish if leaders aim their sights on performance results that balance the needs of customers, employees, and shareholders.

  Jon Katzenbach

  Real, Sight, Leader

  Jon Katzenbach, Douglas Smith (2015). “The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization”, p.7, Harvard Business Review Press

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• We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

  Jason Kidd

  Sports, Witty, Stupid

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• The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

  John Wooden

  Leadership, Basketball, Volleyball

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.63, B&H Publishing Group

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• Effective teamwork will not take the place of knowing how to do the job or how to manage the work. Poor teamwork, however, can prevent effective final performance. And it can also prevent team members from gaining satisfaction in being a member of a team and the organization.

  Robert Bales

  Jobs, Organization, Knowing

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• Rotten Attitudes ruin a team.

  John C. Maxwell

  Attitude, Rotten, Ruins

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• In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

  Charles Darwin

  Creativity, Knowledge, Science

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Team members who feel threatened but who are not aware of it become rigid - and that stops teamwork.

  William Schutz

  Team Building, Team Work, Collaboration

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• Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Volleyball, Important

  Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

  Magic Johnson

  Inspiring, Basketball, Champion

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• I think that things happen individually first, and then collectively. It's not the other way around.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Thinking, Literature, Way

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• Stellar teams are invariably made up of quirky individuals who typically rub each other raw, but they figure out - with the spiritual help of a gifted leader - how to be their peculiar selves and how to win championships as a team...at the same time.

  Tom Peters

  Motivational, Spiritual, Winning

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• Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.

  Daley Thompson

  Sports, Good Team, Sports Leadership

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• When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

  Russel Honore

  Inspirational, Leadership, Team Building

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• Other people may complicate our lives, but life without them would be unbearably desolate. None of us can be truly human in isolation. The qualities that make us human emerge only in the ways we relate to other people.

  Harold S. Kushner

  People, Quality, Would Be

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.42, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.

  Bai Ling

  Men, Talking, Mind

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• Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

  Douglas McGregor

  Educational, Decision, Boss

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• Individuals score points, but teams win games.

  Zig Ziglar

  Sports, Winning, Games

  Zig Ziglar (2003). “Zig Ziglar's Life Lifters”, p.83, B&H Publishing Group

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• Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Leadership, Volleyball

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• Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.

  Ken Robinson

  Education, Learning, School

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• No man is wise enough by himself.

  Plautus

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 878-82, Miles Gloriosus, III. 3. 12, 1922.

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  Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

  Tom Landry

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• The key elements in the art of working together are how to deal with change, how to deal with conflict, and how to reach our potential...the needs of the team are best met when we meet the needs of individual persons.

  Max De Pree

  Art, Keys, Team Work

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• Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.

  Earl Nightingale

  Motivational, People, Done

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• You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

  A. A. Milne

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

  "Pooh's Little Instruction Book". Book by A. A. Milne, Joan Powers, www.mtv.com. 2001.

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