Richard Hamming Quotes

They left us together for a reason. Let's show them why.

I am interested in the interaction of a group of people who have a common goal, or a common obsession, each contributing something unique to make something greater than the sum of its parts. I don't know why, but from day one, that has interested me.

The key to - and magic of - good campaigns is when you pull people together. You unite them around a common theme.

The thing you miss most, when you don't play and you don't coach, is the huddle. You miss the huddle. You miss the ability to walk in the room where collectively players are from everywhere. Every race, every religion, every color. It don't matter, because you've got a common goal. You're trying to be something special as a team.

When you get a young group of people that believe, are passionate... and committed to a single purpose, you better look out. Great things can happen.

You've got a goal in life. I've got a goal. Now all we need is a football team.

We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws.

He whose ranks are united in purpose will be victorious.

I think this group of people came together in a way that they haven't before in 2007. I'm very optimistic we can do something ... I want to get there, I want to support this.

I can't tell you how much you gain, how much progress you can make, by working together as a team, by helping one another. You get much more done that way. If there's anything the Steelers of the '70s epitomized, I think it was that teamwork.

We have to get back to "we." It's important to get back to "we" not just "I."

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

I think... you know, collaboration, in general - no matter movies, television or Broadway - is offering of what you can bring to the table and also fighting what you think the important battles are. Not everything is going to make it in there. Not everything is going to work. You have to collaborate. And you have to be a good listener.

‎Be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole.

Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.

It is not enough that there is a collection of people with the common aim of working in unison towards an objective... Aspiration and desire only are not enough.

I never think about my own stats, as long as I'm contributing to the team.

In my walks of life, I've understood that it takes more than one person to think of achieving a goal, and it takes more than one or two players, to get you out of the position you're in.

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

When we think about the people with whom we work, people on whom we depend, we can see that without each individual, we are not going to go very far as a group. By ourselves, we suffer serious limitations. Together we can be something wonderful.

I'm interested in the way each piece comes together to work as one bigger thing. But The whole point was for people to have fun with it and not be taking it too seriously. I think a lot of people succeeded in that.

Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality.

As a group, we are stronger than we are as individuals. We start to think we want everything for ourselves and we don't want to help anybody else. We want to succeed, but we don't want anybody else to succeed, because we want to be the winner.

In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.

Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.