Diversity And Teamwork Quotes & Sayings

What I am doing; how I am being as I am doing it; and does it bring honor to my community? What is the lesson in what I am doing? And most importantly, am I having fun? — Iyanla Vanzant

To boost bonding among others so they are more apt to work (or play) well together, ask them, when together, to do two powerfully simple things that can be done rather quickly:
1. Write down the ways they are like each other. Hint: Create a level playing field. Writing rather than immediately sharing helps slow thinkers keep up with fast thinkers. Fast thinkers aren't smarter, just different in their thinking processes, and each kind has advantages and pitfalls, so they can accomplish more together than when a majority in a group think and speak at the same speed. Hint: Salespeople are often fast thinkers.
2. Share with each other what they wrote, going around the circle, one by one.
Bonus benefit: Other studies show that when you reflect on how you are similar to those with whom you are talking, you pay more attention to them. You care about them more. That spurs the other person to listen more closely to you. — Kare Anderson

I'm sad
I'm tired
I'm lonely
But it's okay because I'm "breathing — Just Me

A paradox: The things you don't need to live - books, art, cinema, wine, and so on - are the things you need to live. — Matt Haig

Most people can accept the truth only in the form of a lie. — P.D. Ouspensky

I'm not interested in being in 'Heat Magazine.' — Cush Jumbo

I got really tired of metal music. How do you pick what's good to sell when you're not totally into what you're listening to and marketing? — Blake Judd

I got to a point in my life when I'd done loads of things I regretted. I made all the wrong decisions. I was trying to fill my life with all these projects, hoping that one of them would succeed. I was like a cheating girlfriend. I was cheating on all the bands with other bands, and I was trying to manage everything. — Duffy

You know, if you play on home soil sometimes funny things can happen and you have that push of the crowd. — Ruud Gullit

We are way more powerful when we turn to each other and not on each other, when we celebrate our diversity, focus on our commonality, and together tear down the mighty walls of injustice. — Cynthia McKinney