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Collective Effort Quotes

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

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

Robert D. Putnam
Hero, Collective Effort, Roles
Robert D. Putnam (2001). “Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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

Terence McKenna
Life, Dream, Collective Effort
Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham (2001). “Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness”, p.48, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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
Collective Effort, Giving, Important

So there might be a kind of collective effort that allows for those risks to be taken, pose a certain danger but not a suicidal one.

Judith Butler
Taken, Suicidal, Collective Effort
Source: ilga.org

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

Narendra Modi
Collective Effort, Individual Effort, Excellence

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
Collective Effort, Sky, Pie

We don't all have to believe in the same feminism. Feminism can be pluralistic so long as we respect the different feminisms we carry with us, so long as we give enough of a damn to try to minimize the fractures among us. Feminism will better succeed with collective effort, but feminist success can also rise out of personal conduct.

Roxane Gay
Women, Believe, Collective Effort

You're not really just a filmmaker that makes a movie good most of the time. It's everybody involved; it's a collective effort.

Logan Lerman
Collective Effort, Filmmaker, Collectives
"Logan Lerman on ‘Indignation’, His Intense Preparation, and Why Directing Is His Ultimate Goal". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. July 28, 2016.

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