Anne Waldman Quotes

What matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win too. Even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then.

I don’t feel in a kind of race or competition with him or anybody else, because that kind of reactive thing isn’t good, or isn’t useful for natural creative instincts

Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.

Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building enduring communities requires empathy, self-sacrifice and a willingness to help others without expecting anything in return.

When you know people are really at peace with who they are and what they do, they collaborate and want to help you to improve.

We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community.

Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together.

The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.

I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends.

We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for-me?' attitude, and what I try to do is find ways that we can develop common ground.

If you want to reach the top, don't run over others. Likely, the only way you'll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.

I'm just human, and I have great relationships with the people that work for me.

Most women prefer circles of sharing to pyramids and hierarchies. They prefer conversation to construction. They will usually choose nurturance and empathy over competition and climbing. They will normally choose connection over simple performance games.

Through art, through people working together and building relationships and trust, people can overcome the problems of politics.

We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

Everyone fights for everyone else. If someone has a bad day, then the others are there for him. And if a player makes a mistake, then the others can compensate for that. Those sorts of things are crucial at this level, and it's really important that we perform as a unit.

A huge part of making something work is getting along with people you work with. You want them to succeed; you want them to bring their ideas to life as much as possible.

By working together, we can make Arizona a place where everyone has an opportunity for a better life.

I think you function much better when you trust people and when you've got a sort of relationship where you can develop ideas within a framework.

Actually, competitiveness was never part of our upbringing.

We have to listen and learn from each other to lift each other up, so we can all live the life we deserve.

What's the point of being better than someone else?

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.