Collaboration Quotes

My original idea for the cover was better - decapitate Paul - but he wouldn't go along with it.

That's my mathematician who examines problems which I put before him and checks their validity. You see, I am not myself a good mathematician.

Success has many fathers.

No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people.

The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.

[FBI] philosophy is "Go ahead and make the story you want to make, and hopefully we'll love it." So that's that.

He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own.

Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing.

Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.

We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.

The success of a vision is determined by its ownership by both the leader and the people.

The best form of leadership is to be conscious of the leadership potential with the followers and to let them unleash this potential in a spontaneous way. When a great leader accomplishes this task with effortless ease, the followers say, "We did it ourselves."

We were always able to sing and blend well together; that's our gift. But aside from that, we're really two different guys.

In conclusion I wish to say that in working at the problem here dealt with I have had the loyal assistance of my friend and colleague M. Besso, and that I am indebted to him for several valuable suggestions.

I can see close up and my husband can see far away, so we're covered. He tells me who's in the movie and I tell him what's in his sandwich. Together we're human bifocals.

My mentor said, 'Let's go do it', not 'You go do it'. How powerful when someone says, 'Let's!'

I believe that it is a great mistake not to stand up for people, even when you differ with them, if you feel that they are trying to do things that will help our country.

You must find a way to get your vision seen, implemented, and contributed to by others.

Teams make you better than you are, multiply your value, enable you to do what you do best, allow you to help others do their best, give you more time, provide you with companionship, help you fulfill the desires of your heart and compound your vision and effort.

Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.

When somebody shares, everybody wins.

Man's brain may be compared to an electric battery...a group of electric batteries will provide more energy than a single battery.

You need to have a collaborative hiring process.

I think that we have to do everything we can to work together, Democrats and Republicans, and then if we go the initiative route like we have done in the past, go together.

Now you have to be a collaborator and you have to bring on governments and convince people.

The rule should be to minimize the need for people to get together to accomplish anything.

Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions.

Combating climate change requires collaboration with many levels of government.

[Drizzy] reached out to me through Chase N Cashe, they're brothers, they're one. Chase N Cashe made the connection, played some of my music and he [Drake] got up on it, got interested in the music and just reached out and said "You know what, let's work."

It's very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.

You need someone who has a really good way of enabling trust in the cast and crew, or the cast particularly, to allow them the confidence to stretch themselves to get the performance that you're going to need to provide all of the emotional up and downs in the film.

An interesting thing about the beginning of our friendship and professional collaboration [with Tina Fey] was that the improve scenes we would do together were basically dramatic and not funny at all.

It is my belief that industry and government around the world should work even more closely to protect the privacy and security of Internet users, and promote the exchange of ideas, while respecting legitimate government considerations.

I believe that if we stop talking at one another and start talking with one another, we can get a lot done.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

I really liked the sound of some projects that Jon Brion had worked on. I was always considered this crazy hothead kid, but I would always just go and just really break bread with someone who I respected. I will completely bow to anybody I respect.

The group will not prosper if the leader grabs the lion's share of the credit for the good work that has been done.

Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected the punctuation, the botany, the entomology, the geography, and the chronology of previous works of mine and will, I hope, not spare his services on the present occasion.

The company owner doesn't need to win. The best idea does.

Any group, any group that can't work with all other groups, if they are genuinely interested in solving the problems of the Negro collectively why, I don't think that that group is really sincerely motivated toward reaching a solution.

Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom.

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Ultimately, the challenges of the 21st century can't be met without collective action. Agreement will almost never be easy, and results won't always come quickly. But I am committed to respecting different points of view, and to forging a consensus instead of dictating our terms... That's how we will advance and uphold our ideals.

Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.

One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.

If you want to be great, you can't be great by yourself. You gotta to bring people around you. As the the challenge escalates, the need for teamwork elevates. The greater the challenge, the better the team.

With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with somebody really interesting or with an interesting person or group of people.

Profile of a winning team - They play to win. They have a winning attitude. They keep improving. They make their teammates more successful.

One is too small a number to achieve greatness. No accomplishment of real value has ever been achieved by a human being working alone.

Coming together is a beginning, and staying together is progress, but only when teams sweat together do they find success.

It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.

No form of human exchange is more profitable than the exchange of ideas. If I give you a thought in return for one of your thoughts, each of us will have gained a 100 percent dividend.

I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow.

The ideal set-up would be the story man, the director, and the layout man, as well as musician, operating as a sort of story unit. They all should be keenly interested in the picture. No one in person should donate to an extent where he would keep the others from entering into the production and freely expressing themselves.

We reckoned we could make it because there were four of us. None at us would've made it alone, because Paul wasn't quite strong enough, I didn't have enough girl-appeal, George was too quiet, and Ringo was the drummer. But we thought that everyone would be able to dig at least one of us, and that's how it turned out.

Tina Fey and I have 15 things in development: 'Laverne and Shirley', 'Starsky and Hutch 3', 'Cagney and Lacey', 'Wonder Twins Activate From Two Hot Broads', 'Little House on the Prairie: The Musical: The Movie'.

I start where the last man left off.

Doubtless you begin to understand how disagreeable it is to me to do a thing arbitrarily, when it is unsatisfactory to others associated with me.