Dickey Betts Quotes

It's all realistic, if you get a group of ladies and you stick them together almost every day for three, four months you're going to have some catfights.

There must be some tensions in a team, which you can't always wipe away or smooth over.

Lack of harmony comes when I feel that I know how to do something better than you. Lack of harmony is the song and dance of superiority. Because everybody feels superior, disharmony at every moment is entering into our lives.

Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.

It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.

Organizations in conflict quickly become like one another.

When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.

In my solo series, I feel like I've often dealt with groups of people.

I have a real hard time with inter-personal relationships. I find it really taxing. Especially, like, friendships and being in bands.

When you have a lot of communication, it picks up the aggressiveness with everybody on the court.

Students who learn to collaborate and negotiate - on Capitol Hill, in the board room, in everyday life - will outperform peers who have higher test scores.

The problem with Danity Kane is everybody wanted to play everybody's role, and when you're in a group like that, that can't survive.

We're here for one reason, and that's to win ballgames. You're going to have your feuding in there. But that is not going to carry over to the field. That's just the way it is.

You can't just throw people at all your problems, dear.

Pierce Brosnan is a very sweet man. Oh, we had our issues, but a lot of it was hormones.

Consensus building doesn't necessarily fit with my experience.

In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.

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.

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.

What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the human brain to have and monitor social interactions.

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different.

I enjoy working with people. I understand that as a necessity. And clearly that's something that develops as you get older. And I've grown into that.

Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.

On land, you can walk away from people, from unpleasant situations. But when you're on a ship for 14 months with 49 other people, if you don't resolve your issues it literally could mean - and this would be an extreme circumstance - the sinking of the ship. You learn a lot about other people. You learn a lot about yourself.

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.