“In science men have learned consciously to subordinate themselves to a common purpose without losing the individuality of their achievements. Each one knows that his work depends on that of his predecessors and colleagues, and that it can only reach its fruition through the work of his successors. In science men collaborate not because they are forced to by superior authority or because they blindly follow some chosen leader, but because they realize that only in this willing collaboration can each man find his goal.” KnowsMenPurposeGoalRealizingCommonLeaderWillingDependsAuthorityAchievementLosingIndividualityChosenSuperiorsCollaborationColleaguesSubordinatesPredecessorsSuccessorsFruitionCommon Purpose Author:John Desmond Bernal
“My opinion is there should NOT be an MVP award [in hockey]. The Olympic teams sports shouldn't acknowledge individuality. And if there is going to be such an award a player on the losing team who lets in the losing goal shouldn't get it.” IfsShouldSportsGoalOpinionPlayerTeamLosingIndividualityAcknowledgeAwardsHockeySports TeamMvp Author:Michael Wilbon
“The unique eludes us; yet we remain faithful to the ideal of it; and in spite of sense and of our merely abstract thinking, it becomes for us the most real thing in the actual world, although for us it is the elusive goal of an infinite quest.” ThinkingWorldRealGoalUniqueIdealsInfiniteIndividualityFaithfulAbstractSpiteQuestsReal ThingsElusiveEludeElude UsAbstract Thinking Book:The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown Source: The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown
“We should stop looking to law to provide the final answer.... Law cannot save us from ourselves.... We have to go out and try to accomplish our goals and resolve disagreements by doing what we think is right. That energy and resourcefulness, not millions of legal cubicles, is what was great about America. Let judgment and personal conviction be important again.” ThinkingShouldTryingImportantAmericaLawEnergyGoalAnswersMillionsJudgmentFinalsIndividualityConvictionAccomplishResolveDisagreementResourcefulnessCubicles Author:Philip K. Howard
“For a team to accomplish their goal, everybody’s got to give up a little bit of their individuality.” GivingLittlesBitsGoalTeamGiving UpLittle BitIndividualityAccomplish Author:Bill Belichick