Quotes About Collective Effort

#1. Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort.

Robert D. Putnam

#2. Women's progress has been a collective effort.

Gloria Steinem

#3. The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make anything of the collective effort of shaping their economic society, now expect fortune to descend like pie from the sky.

Max Lerner

#4. Individual effort is good but collective effort is better. We need a NETWORK of nation builders

Fela Durotoye

#5. After Obama became president, I realized that black people could not have put him in the White House - it had to be a collective effort of everybody in the country.

Tyler Perry

#6. Scientists contribute in a variety of ways and I don't think I can singular one even including [Albert] Einstein, that I can say that he's the best. We don't work like the best basketball player and the best musician and so on. Science is a collective effort.

Ahmed H. Zewail

#7. Those who have the most, who earn the most, must give an example, because that is important for Spain's collective effort.

Luis De Guindos

#8. The paradox of this arrangement was not lost on Lewis Mumford, who described suburbia as "a collective effort to live a private life." In many ways, this goes to the heart of the matter, for it is a project based on self-contradiction - the tragedy of American domestic

Morris Berman

#9. A book is almost always a collective effort, even if it has only a single author.

Raghuram G. Rajan

#10. I'm a big believer in the value of labor unions and with what collective effort gets people.

John Wells

#11. More than any other colonial founder, Oglethorpe made himself one of the people, promoting collective effort.

Nancy Isenberg

#12. Russia would prefer to rebuild trust rather than allow it to further corrode. That's why, in July 2007, President Putin, in the spirit of strategic openness, proposed a truly collective effort at missile defense for Europe.

Sergei Lavrov

#13. The road to success in life is never an individual battle but a collective effort.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#14. Individual efforts can bring excellence but only collective efforts can deliver effectively.

Narendra Modi

#15. Look inside yourself and recognize that change starts with you. It starts with me. It starts with all of us.

Jared Bush

#16. Our collective information regarding his death was still limited, which brought forward the sadder fact that, at the end of it all, none of us had actually known Rob as well as we thought we did, as well as we should have, as well as - with just a little more effort - we could have.

Jeff Hobbs

#17. There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.

Gustav Klimt

#18. What I don't like in movies dealing with the illustration of altered states of consciousness is that usually you see the guy from the outside.

Gaspar Noe

#19. If secrets were stuffing, the woman would be done up like a Thanksgiving turkey.

Lauren Oliver

#20. He said that the plane was too fast, that his body had arrived fast. That he was just ill because his soul could not keep pace with the speed of the plane and was still on its way home, and he would feel better once his soul had caught up.

Kyung-Sook Shin

#21. The era of the Single Savior is over. What is needed now is joint action, combined effort, collective co-creation.

Neale Donald Walsch

#22. The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights

Gloria Steinem

#23. This would be nice when we baptize people in the winter.

Phil Robertson

#24. The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

Terence McKenna

#25. Theatre is very much concerned with the society, with the social situation ... A theatre piece of itself, demands a confrontation with the audience. It demands that you connect with people; it demands a collective and social effort with the company and later with the audience.

Griselda Gambaro

#26. He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens his own conviction, and guards others from delusion; but steadiness of belief, and boldness of profession, are yet only part of the form of godliness.

Samuel Johnson

#27. Something as simple as better breastfeeding could save a million children a year.

Anne M. Mulcahy

#28. In America, it was decided to attempt the production of atomic bombs with an effort that would constitute a large part of the collective American war effort. In Germany, an effort one thousandth the scale of the American was applied to the problem of producing atomic energy that would drive engines.

Werner Heisenberg

#29. Please leave me alone; let me go on to the stars.

Arthur C. Clarke