Mary Lasker Quotes

Nobody would have me in their laboratory for five minutes. I couldn't cut up a frog, and I certainly couldn't perform surgery. I'm better at making it possible for other people.

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

Assists is what Earvin is all about. That's what my whole life has been, assisting others.

You're supposed to have one hand up and one hand down. As you're trying to going up, you're trying to pull someone up at the same time.

There's something inside of me that makes me want to help people, especially people who are having difficulty of some kind.

I'm not on this earth to be a goalie. I'm not here to stop somebody from accomplishing their goals. If you're not hurting anybody, I'm here to either assist or get out of the way

I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.

No one person can take credit for the success of a motion picture. It's strictly a team effort. From the time the story is written to the time the final release print comes off the printer, hundreds of people are involved - each one doing a job - each job contributing to the final product.

Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it.

A lot of it is "how do you work with people". How do you get people to work with you and do wonderful things.

It's an all-inclusive package, when you get to be creative and run a little country while you're on a set and doing it with people that you enjoy working with and you all have a say in it.

Even if it's a sequel, lots of people have to give their all to make a game, but some people think the sequel process happens naturally.

What really matters is not just our own winning but helping other people to win, too.

I'm having so much trouble with writing. Maybe if I help other people, it'll be easier for me.

Gymnastics, you get one shot; acting, it's like, do it again, do it again, do it again. So that was the one thing that I found very different. You're allowed to get different tries and you're more expressive in a way when you're working with people. In gymnastics, you're so on your own and individual.

You are truly successful when you can extend a strong hand to someone who is reaching out or just trying to hang on.

I think one of the worst things people can do is try and fight the people they've agreed to work with.

One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.

This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.

I like meeting people and I like being able to help.

On a personal level, just for me in my own work, I would say the most interesting thing has been getting to work with the people that I've worked with.

For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.

There are a lot of different paths through the jungle, but...the simplest thing you can do is make yourself useful. Be easy to work with, be a hard worker and help people get the job done. And do it with as much passion and quality as you can.

When people start serving together, they forgot about all their stress, [...] all their own problems. They start focusing on someone else's.