Jeanette Winterson Quotes

When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time.

Climbing has worked for me in a number of ways on Capitol Hill. I'm much more inclined to look at what people do, as opposed to what they say. Also, it's about working together - we're all on the rope together, and you don't get to cut the rope if you're not getting along with someone.

Communication is an issue where we can improve, and if I can do anything to help, I am happy to.

You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.

The hardest job is getting personalities to mesh.

I don't know how people do this job collaboratively if they don't really get along. You're spending all day every day for months and years on end with somebody.

I've never really been too fussed about the kind of teammate I have.

I hate when people talk about certain guys and say they can't work together.

Good teams have more fun. Bad teams have more characters.

Every team boat will have its disagreements and arguments, but if it doesn't kill us or the boat, it will make us stronger.

The message is going to be the same. It's very simple. We're either going to turn to each other or on each other.

If the auto plants in Detroit would just sit around the table and say, 'What do we gotta do to make this thing work?' Instead of, 'I want this and I want that.' They might make it.

I'd have to just say that working with other people, it's a different world from school.

I've always been a good ensemble player.

Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that's politics.

I believe you can work with anybody.

I love collaborating with people.

But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

I've played sports pretty much my whole life, and that teaches you how to work with anyone, whether you like that person or you don't, and whether you get along with them or you don't. The circumstances don't matter. Team work is part of life.

We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in a different way.

I love working closely with people.

When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.

I think that one thing I have learned as a freshman is that it is really important to collaborate.

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

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