James Levine Quotes

No matter whether you are new or an old team member, you need time to adjust to one another.

When you try to build a team, you need a mix of talent.

I've never really had a competitive relationship in any work situation.

I love working with other people and bouncing ideas off them.

I've always worked with people who have been supporters of me creatively.

A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.

It's all right buying all these good players but they've got to gel, and that takes time.

I don’t allow my staff to criticize each other…. Evan Rosalyn … She knows that nothing can make me madder then for her to criticize staff.

There is something about me that is collaborative, that wants to get the best performance out of somebody else or to hear something that somebody else has done that's good and to try and make it great.

I think competitiveness is taken in a different way by different people. I'm not a yeller and a screamer, a jumper and a pusher.

I always talk to all the crew. I always make it pleasant. I always nurture a relationship that makes people feel like they're important, like they're a part of the collaboration. I feel that way about the young actors on set. I don't talk to them like I'm the mentor; I talk to them like they're my peers. And I learned that from Meryl Streep.

You want a coach who is going to push you and be strong and be in your corner when it's tough, but sometimes you have coaches who think they are more important than the players. That's where the conflicts come.

If one player can say that I, Emmanuel Adebayor, spoke badly to anyone in the changing rooms, then I'd honestly like to know who it is. It has never happened in my life.

I definitely want to be in a situation where I'm playing with players that are getting me better every day by pushing me and vice versa.

I've been on extremely talented teams that just don't click, and I've also been on team with a little bit less talent, but they clicked, and because they clicked, they did better than other talented teams I've been on.

As you develop relationships in your team you have to learn how your teammates react to being yelled at or how to put your arm around them and show them how to do things. You have to build those relationships up and understand who that person is and how they respond and choose your way to lead them to hopefully help everyone out.

It's not about an individual. If I have a tip or a reminder for one of my teammates, I'll help him out by doing that.

I've never been a break-you-down, one-on-one guy.

I'm not sure what you need first - the players believing or others believing in them - but in the end, both have to think it.

I need to feel like I am important part of the team, if I get that the goals will come.

You like more the people that you work with, you believe more in them, you share some fantastic moments and that habit of winning, winning, winning... after you win, you don't want to stop winning.

The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are doing to intervene.

When you are working with someone who is so aware of what they do, you become better, too.

For organizations seriously committed to making teamwork a cultural reality, I'm convinced that 'the right people' are the ones who have three virtues in common - humility, hunger, and people smarts.

You want to build your own team for the highest level, and that happens more with teams that stay together.