"Great things can happen when you don't..." - Quote by Mark Twain
Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.
More by Mark Twain
“There is no accounting for human beings.”
“an Autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth, the remorseless truth is there, between the lines, where the author-cat is raking dust upon it which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell... the result being that the reader knows the author in spite of his wily diligences.”
“You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee IacoccaLove is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
More on Collaboration
“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.”
“What a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of the other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous.”
“If you ever go to a music session, you'll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they're reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.”
More on Humility
“Most fighters are the most humble people in the world because they've gotten their ass kicked before.”
“The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel.”
“It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed.”