Top 100 Collaborating Quotes
#1. I'm terrible at collaborating with people; nothing ever ends up coming out good.
Mac DeMarco
#2. I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff.
Liz Phair
#3. Destructive thoughts prevent your body from collaborating with your deepest wishes and needs. Sabotage has never been the road to success.
Thorbjorg Hafsteinsdottir
#4. Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself, is an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He is a storyteller first and foremost, so we speak the same language. We approach things always from the story.
Melissa Rosenberg
#5. A poet should always be 'collaborating' with his public, but this public, in the mass, cannot make itself heard, and he has to guess at its requirements and its criticisms.
Louis MacNeice
#6. I love collaborating outside of my space.
Steve Aoki
#7. I love getting into a studio with a bunch of friends. When the day's done, we've made something. We recognize that we're from different walks of the music industry, and there's no reason we shouldn't be collaborating. That's what I'm trying to create with thenewno2 - a sense of community.
Dhani Harrison
#8. A lot of my peers don't think about collaborating the way I do. My approach is to imagine my world. The Jason Wu woman isn't just floating around in a beautiful dress. I like to know where she's going, what she likes. I'm not just in the fashion business. I'm in the lifestyle business.
Jason Wu
#9. [Mikhail] Saakashvili will use all legal and illegal means possible to remain in power. People are being threatened to prevent them from collaborating with the opposition. At the same time, he is terrorizing the business world, which prevents the opposition from gaining any funding.
Irakli Okruashvili
#10. You're really creative when you're in an environment that you don't know how to handle. So collaborating was like that for me. I think that was one of the reasons why I knew I was gonna get a challenging reaction.
Liz Phair
#11. Some people work very closely with a director or a producer on something, and from the get go, they're collaborating. But typically, it's just go in for an audition, do the best you can, and if the phone rings a couple of days after the audition and you get the part, that's great.
Roger Craig Smith
#12. It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings.
Wendy Kopp
#13. Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.
Edmund White
#14. Every director is different. One of the great things about getting to work with so many directors in one TV series is collaborating with different artistic visions and voices. And they all have something to offer and making the story better and bringing their vision to what you see in the frame.
Beau Willimon
#15. I'm always interested in collaborating with designers. I love Gaultier. I know that's kind of a high hope!
Pamela Love
#16. When you're collaborating with somebody who's got a lot of stuff they haven't worked out yet, you're working out their vision as well.
Sandra Bernhard
#17. I've done art on my own, and I've also collaborated with other people to make art. And collaborating with other people is always interesting because you end up doing things you probably wouldn't do otherwise.
Kim Gordon
#18. It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.
Ben Folds
#19. That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.
Noah Baumbach
#20. I was writing music when we finished the last Walkmen record, Heaven, and a few of these songs may have even been started before Heaven was done. With The Walkmen we all wrote a lot of stuff alone, but then we'd start collaborating with each other.
Hamilton Leithauser
#21. I enjoy collaborating with all of the directors I have worked with. I love collaborating with creative people on interesting projects.
Lior Ron
#22. When your party is controlled by a billionaire rootless international financier who expresses 'no sense of guilt' for collaborating with the Nazis, you might want to ease up on lecturing the rest of us about the evil rich.
Ann Coulter
#23. The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and others I think are total travesties. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's the fun of that?
Alex Chilton
#24. In terms of so-called fly-on-the-wall documentaries, there's a claim that the camera is a transparent window into a pre-existing reality. What really is happening is that the film crew and the subjects are collaborating to simulate a reality in which they pretend the camera is not present.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#25. I've always been very comfortable in a set environment. All the collaborating going on, seeing how actors work - it all excites me.
Gia Coppola
#27. Collaborating with your wife is amazing because you are doing something together with a person you truly love and know and discover things about her in that process which you have never had discovered on other circumstances.
Etgar Keret
#28. I've been collaborating with Ira Schickman on some songs, and there will be many other, great musicians involved.
Chaka Khan
#29. I found collaborating with congenial doctors about problems that physicists could help solve was very satisfying. I also like educating anybody who would listen!
John Cameron
#31. This isn't a mass-produced ... instrument. Mike Lull Custom Guitars makes each bass right here in the NW. Over 20 years of collaborating, designing, and building basses has gone into my model.
Jeff Ament
#32. I've been collaborating a lot, because I like working that way. It's fun and keeps you moving forward.
Tove Styrke
#34. Whether I am collaborating with different people, I like changing projects conceptually so I can grow.
Rain Phoenix
#35. The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who are trying to help you find what you need and what you want.
Roman Coppola
#36. We spent a lot of time trend forecasting and collaborating on ways to design a fresh line of fashion-forward, affordable luxury.
Kourtney Kardashian
#37. That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there.
David Amram
#38. I was at the forefront of the effort to pass $15 minimum wage in Seattle, and have been collaborating with the people who are trying to make that happen across the country.
Nick Hanauer
#39. I write by myself initially. That's the way I've always written, just working on pure thought by myself. Then I bring it to the table with whoever I'm collaborating with.
Amy Lee
#40. I don't think I ever got the hang of the writers' room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to - if I did something again, I think I'd want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does.
Diablo Cody
#41. What's great about collaborating is getting to work with wonderful people. That's what theatre is about: other people getting you to give your best, and getting everyone else's best out of them.
Jason Robert Brown
#42. A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos.
Evelyn Glennie
#43. We're living in an age where we should be collaborating. Because it's the Internet now. It's hard to say who owns what.
Michelle Phan
#44. Some things, I feel like no, I never could have the depth of experience of their own music and culture - but sometimes if I'm collaborating with somebody, they're interested in me bringing my own stuff into their thing, and sometimes that works.
David Byrne
#45. People keep on saying, "Don't Think Much." Is it underrated? You can't be creative enough unless you make a thoughtful process by collaborating your conscience and consciousness
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#46. The fun part about collaborating is that you naturally just bounce off each other's energy and learn off each other.
John Legend
#47. When I write on 'SNL,' I've found I'm most productive while collaborating and joking with friends and not being firmly attached to any one idea.
Cecily Strong
#48. Any artist that's as serious about making music as I am, I'm cool with that. But if you tellin' me, "Man, send me a verse and I'ma send you a verse." No. That's not collaborating. We don't know each other and I'm serous about this music.
Kevin Gates
#49. When we got to the step when we'd normally start collaborating, we started having these talks about how it was not worth getting together. Getting together just didn't feel very inspired, and doing it alone did.
Hamilton Leithauser
#50. I love fashion, and I love clothes, and so collaborating and putting pieces together is a passion that I have.
Nina Dobrev
#52. In the mid-nineties, I quit my job as a senior feature writer at 'The Mail' on Sunday in the U.K. and became a 'ghost writer,' collaborating with politicians, pop stars, psychologists, soldiers and sporting legends who needed help in penning their autobiographies.
Michael Robotham
#53. On social media, like on Instagram and stuff that I post, and the way that I view myself, and portray myself on there, that's definitely a much more personalized take. I'm not collaborating with people to make that, it's my own social media platform in which I'm - it's not a character, it's just me.
Chloe Grace Moretz
#54. I love collaborating with strong women.
Mika.
#55. What I love about collaborating is that you're working with other minds that work differently to yours.
Lauren Beukes
#56. Neither group working alone can create gender balance in society. The sexes must work together for this balance to be realized, collaborating in courageous new forms of experiential and transformative modalities.
William Keepin
#57. Of course we had the best possible classical education, which gave us a very strong foundation and tradition. But we also learned a lot by collaborating with different pop/rock artists and especially by recording and working in the studio.
Luka Sulic
#58. The biggest neurological turn-on for people is other people. This is what really excites us. In reward terms, it's not money; it's not being given cash - that's nice - it's doing stuff with our peers, watching us, collaborating with us.
Tom Chatfield
#59. Hamas thinks they can kill the will of people by intimidation. Most of those who are killed in the Gaza Strip for the suspicion of collaborating with Israel, have nothing to do with Israel.
Mosab Hassan Yousef
#60. Working with and collaborating with and for Peter Jackson was an incredible experience because he is such a phenomenal filmmaker.
Andy Serkis
#62. You're collaborating with people you don't even know, when you're making a film. You're collaborating with people you've never seen. So, the collaborative process is very, very different than when you're collaborating on a record with the musicians you've worked with all your life.
Nick Cave
#63. But BEing time is never wasted time. When we are BEing, not only are we collaborating with chronological time, but we are touching on kairos, and are freed from the normal restrictions of time.
Madeleine L'Engle
#64. The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
Gary Numan
#65. I love collaborating with people, but I also really love working by myself.
King Tuff
#66. To know we are being spied on by our own government, and to have someone else's government collaborating on that, to know that data storage is so cheap your information can be kept for years and used to create any kind of story, to me that's a grave attack on human rights.
Sara Harrison
#67. All I know for certain is that this is how I want to spend my life - collaborating to the best of my ability with forces of inspiration that I can neither see, nor prove, nor command, nor understand. It's a strange line of work, admittedly. I cannot think of a better way to pass my days.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#68. Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do.
Chris Matthews
#70. Part of why I was drawn to making dance music was convenience. It was the type of music I could make without a band, and I wasn't interested in collaborating with anyone.
Nicolas Jaar
#71. The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that gets people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.
Mariah Carey
#72. I just enjoy collaborating. I think there is always something to be learned, and I think that one could never collaborate enough - that would be impossible. So I am always excited and honored when someone wants to work with me.
Jim James
#73. Fast thinkers aren't smarter than slow. Collaborating in real time and over time leverages our collective value and limits pitfalls of both kinds of thinkers. Discuss options both face-to-face and virtually to enable fast and slow thinkers to optimize value for the team
Kare Anderson
#74. You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
Dana Brunetti
#75. You know how it is in L.A. At times, it's a dog-eat-dog world. There's a lot of sharks. I think with YouTube, we're anti that. We're anti-competitive. We're all about collaborating and supporting.
Michelle Phan
#76. You know, you can have someone who's the very best at something, but if there's not that kind of chemistry, collaborating is not going to amount to anything.
Yo-Yo Ma
#77. I'm convinced that the greatness that matters more is the greatness people achieve through helping each other, through collaborating, more than the greatness that's achieved by grabbing all you can or getting all you can or building all you can.
Alex Bogusky
#78. I work from the body - I try to develop a language of the body. I've invented a term I call "corporeal writing" around that idea. I love teaching and collaborating around this idea, because no new breakthrough in literature ever happened because everyone was doing what was already there.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#79. Open source is a beautiful way of collaborating; but what's happening on the free Internet is more akin to the 'crowdsourcing' of journalists and other content creators by advertisers who no longer have to pay them - only the search engines that parse their articles.
Douglas Rushkoff
#80. For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.
Kaskade
#81. These were people collaborating because they wanted to, not because they were paid to, and with little or no intellectual property in their ideas.
Matt Ridley
#82. I don't do press for the sake of press. I tend to only be in the press when I'm introducing something or collaborating on something or whatever it may be, as opposed to inviting someone into my home to photograph my closet for no particular reason.
Ivanka Trump
#83. I have a lot of intention behind what I put out there. The reason all this stuff I do works together, the environmental and social, collaborating with ballet companies to score a show, the bike tour - all of that stuff comes together through community building with music.
Ben Sollee
#85. The real excitement is collaborating with computer scientists and neuroscientists and starting to understand in detail how children learn so much so quickly.
Alison Gopnik
#86. I like collaborating, but I felt I should do my first single by myself so people don't think I'm leaning on other artists to be a success.
Missy Elliot
#87. I haven't given any thought to collaborating with my sisters. It would be great fun. My daughter Molly is a wonderful writer - someday I'd love to collaborate with her.
Hallie Ephron
#88. Of course, all people have their own reasons for believing what they do about gender. In my case, in over two decades of collaborating with men and women in music - conductors or otherwise - I have seen no distinction.
Michael Hersch
#89. Building and maintaining consensus while collaborating is the hardest part of building software.
Russell Jurney
#90. If I'm talking to a photographer, I'm talking to a stylist, I'm talking to a makeup artist, we're kind of creating and collaborating and making something that is artwork and is special and is different.
Chloe Grace Moretz
#91. Marriage isn't a motion-picture close-up with slow fade-out on the embrace. It's a partnership, and what's the good of a partnership if your heart's not in it? It's like collaborating with a man you dislike....
P.G. Wodehouse
#92. I wouldn't mind collaborating with anybody, but I don't want to design anything, I'm not a fashion designer.
ASAP Rocky
#93. If I'm collaborating with an artist I like to give them my point of view and if they don't want to take any of my recommendations it's fine, but it's hard otherwise.
Emmanuel Lubezki
#94. Teddy Kennedy rose to become a liberal lion by collaborating with Republicans.
Juan Williams
#95. I get really excited about collaborating because by the end of the day you have something that you never thought you'd have. I was really happy about writing "Bad News" and a bunch of other stuff on the record that came out so well.
Orianthi
#96. I always need a support team, even at Donna Karan. I like collaborating. There is something in collaboration that is wonderful.
Donna Karan
#97. If there are questions that are unanswered by research, they will be answered by a strategy division, a data-mining group or someone else within the organization. We need to be more effective at collaborating with these groups.
Stephen Jin-Woo Kim
#98. Biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
Erica Jong
#99. Everything that works on the Internet depends on a lot of people collaborating, but there's also these rules that you see across all the really successful platforms. Many, many, many more people consume the information or benefit from the information than actually contribute the information.
Jennifer Pahlka
#100. Some directors are like it's their ... nothing can change, nothing can move. I like collaborating, even when an extra has an idea, I like to bring to really have collaboration.
Louis Leterrier
