Fritjof Capra Quotes

And if we're all one, we need to stop our competition with each other. Most of the decisions we make are about survival and winning.

Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.

The greater productivity of work under the division of labor is a unifying influence. It leads men to regard each other as comrades in a joint struggle for welfare, rather than as competitors in a struggle for existence. It makes friends out of enemies, peace out of war, society out of individuals.

We must reprogram ourselves to understand that cooperation is a higher principle than competition.

My success, literally, is your success figuratively.

A good work is a partnership between you and nature... Nature will help you every step of the way.

We live to prove that cooperation works better than conflict.

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

The way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery.

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

When it all boils down, it's about embracing each others' stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding,' and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego... And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.

I had a hard time treating my field as if it's horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other. I see how the industry and the studios feel it's important, but I don't really have a feeling for being in competition. I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

M*A*S*H' was a collection of people, in front of and behind the cameras, that really clicked.

In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.

You do your work as fully as you can, and the ones who hear the sound join in.

I hate competition.

I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

I write little quotes all the time to help encourage people to come together, like this one: 'If fate happens to toss you a lightbulb, use it to light the path of others, for they will use theirs to light the path of you. With your light together with mine, it's two times as bright and twice as strong.'

Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition.

Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.