No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
Interpretation
Teamwork values contributions over individualism.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of teamwork and collective effort in achieving success. While individual talents and personalities are valuable, it is the harmony and cooperation of the group that ultimately leads to accomplishment, particularly in collaborative endeavors such as rowing.
In practice
This quote can be used in a team-building workshop to promote cooperation.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.
Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.
That is our vocation: to convert the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and sisterhood can be formed and fully experienced.
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.
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