“A group is a bunch of people in an elevator. A team is a bunch of people in an elevator, but the elevator is broken!” “Learning, without any opportunities to share what we’ve learned, is a little like cooking for ourselves; we do it, but we probably won’t do it as well.”

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.