Desmond Tutu Quotes

A good band is like a team. You want to have the right balance. It's not always the best people you need, but the right ones for the job.

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

We all can't shine at the same time.

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'

Within an ensemble, like in sports, if you do your little job, it makes everybody look good.

Music teaches people to work together, which is maybe one of the most important skills.

There are lots of ways to work together.

Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.

But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and six—the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.

You can play the piano with the white keys only or you can play it with only the black keys. But for harmony you must use the black and the white keys.

Gene Roddenberry continually reminded us that the Star Trek Enterprise was a metaphor for starship Earth. And the strength in this starship came from its diversity, coming together and working in concert as a team. That is the strength of our countries, Canada and the United States. We are nations of diversity.

Part of an ensemble show is realizing it's a collaboration. It's like a symphony. Everybody takes their turn, but it's really the collective group that matters.

The more everyone tries to do their own job, that's when the team fires on all cylinders.

As a group we must make sure we're all in sync with each other. We need to be connected through each other's actions.

Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.

The best teams play for each other, not with each other

Never one thing and seldom one person can make for a success. It takes a number of them merging into one perfect whole.

Ten strong horses could not pull an empty baby carriage if they worked independently of each other.

If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble.

I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help.

Men and women are like two feet; they can help each other get ahead.

I've always been a good ensemble player.

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

I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.