Graeme Souness Quotes

I worked in rose fields, and I worked in potato fields. I did some bouncing.

I'm a farm boy. If we need five people to haul in hay, we don't take one and just work them to death.

Our bodies and minds evolved and were adapted for hundreds of thousands of years for tasks like climbing a tree and picking apples, or hunting rabbits, or looking for mushrooms in the forest. They were not adapted to the very gruelling work that is involved in field work - ploughing, harvesting, bringing water, digging weeds - things like that.

I like being outside and I like hard work.

I enjoy working with people. That seems simplistic, but whenever I'm distressed, angry, and want to feel like something can be done about something, it feels better when you surround yourself with people.

When you involve people, they come out, you see them, you get to see their sense of humor.

Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.

People are more productive when they're alone, but they're more collaborative and innovative when they're together.

The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate.

Nothing great can come of more than three people in a room.

Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that my own hands, all of my life, I put in the plant beds and transferred it! I hoed it! I've dug in it! I've sprayed it! I've chopped it! I've shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it!

Working with my hands keeps me sane.

One person is nothing. Two people are a nation.

I love the process of working with people and having things going on, all the time, and just trying to trust your instincts.

I'm a person who loves people. It's all about the vibe of the environment I'm working in.

For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.

I always try and tell dudes that are younger than me is that because of the Internet everyone can just be by themselves doing something, but the importance of a group is being able to have some sort of competition.

It takes 3 girls to tow always; two to hold the rope, and the other one runs round and round, and giggles.

A group of amazingly high achievers can be brought together and play together, and all believe that they are competing for something bigger than themselves. Those players are so used to being patted on the back and told how good they are. Frankly, those are usually the hardest people to remind that they are aspiring to achieve something bigger than themselves.

I think that most people really do need the sort of community you find in an office. Most people are always going to go into an office. If you are a member of a working group and you are not there physically, decisions are made without you.

A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of

The biggest thing I've noticed with some of my favorite directors is their gift of sticking a bunch of strangers in a room together and making them comfortable and making them into a cohesive group. There's magic involved, because you don't know why anybody would pick this group of people.

I've been lucky with the circle of people I'm playing with. We've played enough that there's a language we talk with each other when we play.

I like having people with me to lean on and write with and have fun with.

The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.