Cooperation and Collaboration
Be generous! Here are some of our favorite quotes about collaboration and
cooperation working toward the high trust environment.
The unattended farm stand, with its The noblest art is that of making others
honor box to deposit payment for your happy.
fruit and vegetable purchases, is a site - P.T. Barnum
for local asynchronous interaction.
Buyer and seller come to the same Many hands make light work.
place, but they do not have to be there - Popular saying
at the same time. In contexts where it
would be unwise to rely so completely The more the merrier.
upon trust, vending machines serve the - Proverb
same purpose.
- William J. Mitchell, Placing Words One of the benefits of continuity is that
the process of communication and
A young man walking on a long stretch organization is simplified. What works
of beach encountered a young girl who works, what does not work changes.
was retrieving starfish and throwing - Conversation
them back out into the sea. The young
man inquired why the girl was throwing In obscurity or fame we're all playing in
the starfish back out to sea. There must this game.
be thousands of them and there are - Ziggy Marley, Dragonfly
miles of beach in this area. What
possible difference would it make? The I said why don't we get together and call
girl paused thoughtfully as she prepared ourselves an institute?
to throw another starfish and replied, 'It - Paul Simon
will make a difference to this one.'
- Popular story Are we singing off the same hymn
sheet?
Let us be lavish with praise. Nothing - Conversation
belongs to us.
- Rainer Maria Rilke If I refused to learn from people unless I
agreed with everything they had ever
What kind of a world do you want for said and done, I would never learn from
everybody? anyone.
- Michael Ventura, Letters at 3AM - Rob Brezsny, Pronoia
All for one, and one for all. When you visit a community, walk in,
- Alexandre Dumas don't fly.
- Papua New Guinea Proverb
We must all hang together, or assuredly
we shall all hang separately. If we don't all prosper together, then
- Benjamin Franklin nothing will have been achieved.
- Eels and Stone Houses
There is no competition among
lighthouses.
- Popular expression
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