William Julius Wilson Quotes

Great partnerships thrive because the people need each other.

Everyone needs help from everyone.

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

We are an industry, and we are all in this together and can't survive without each other. I feel it is high time we realise that. If we go against each other, or if we get happiness from other people's fall, then there is no way we will move ahead.

We all need each other.

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.

I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay.

People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to come into your life that you need, and that's the really crazy thing.

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

I think a good relationship is about collaboration.

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I'm not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I'm not talking about co-dependency, I'm talking about giving people the opportunity to practicing love with its sleeves rolled up.

It has to be a partnership. I go back to Ted Thompson's opening press conference, and he talked about partnership. We had a hell of a partnership for 12 years.

I'd never be a jerk with my teammates because I know I need them to be successful.

No one can do anything by themselves. Sometimes you may need help and sometimes you will be offering it.

I work with Ninja, Ninja works with me.

I'm open to working with anybody and everybody as long as I have faith in them and they have faith in me.

The concept of bettering yourself at the disadvantage of others is out the door, and the new one is to help one another while helping yourself.

The dogs and I are a single thing, and thus we share our interests. With them, I'm bigger and better than I am without them, and vice versa.

We hold each other's lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.

The best teams play for each other, not with each other

We are unselfish and we trust each other

To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.