Collaborative Quotes

#1. When young people develop basic leadership and collaborative learning skills, they can be a formidable force for change.

Peter M. Senge

#2. 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

#3. Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.

Meg Cabot

#4. In my view, Russia has not been a particularly collaborative player on the world stage.

Mitt Romney

#5. Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.

Hanna Rosin

#6. When Spotify launched in the U.S. in 2011, it relied on simple usage-based algorithms to connect users and music, a process known as 'collaborative filtering.' These algorithms were more often annoying than useful.

John Seabrook

#7. Millennials expect to create a better future, using the collaborative power of digital technology.

Mal Fletcher

#8. The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

Tim Berners-Lee

#9. You kind of form a bond with your subjects, in a way. You're in it together. To a degree that people don't realize, documentary films - or at least the kind of documentary films I'm interested in - are a collaborative undertaking with the subjects.

Steve James

#10. As a collaborative leader, you support people in their work - you remove roadblocks and help them win.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#11. Being an actor all of my life is kind of a collaborative, social form of interpretive art. Sitting down with a blank page every day by yourself is a different feeling.

Michael Beck

#12. Governments must ensure that the power of blogs is cultivated and implemented in collaborative ways, with a view to preserve peace and human dignity.

Nayef Al-Rodhan

#13. Great Art is collaborative but not democratic. It's OK to be the boss

Jamie Catto

#14. Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.

Julia Leigh

#15. collaborative teams think of common formative assessments as academic scrimmages or dress rehearsals.

Robert Eaker

#16. Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.

Daryl Hannah

#17. I've always said that my favorite aspect of online political writing is how interactive and collaborative it is with one's readers: that has always been, and always will be, crucial in so many ways to what I do.

Glenn Greenwald

#18. When people see me struggling on paper, I think it invites an almost collaborative relationship with the outside world, and that includes readers and other artists.

Adrian Tomine

#19. When I do solo stuff, when I do anything involving music, it's very collaborative.

Amy Ray

#20. Design is a series of creative choices - it's a collaborative effort, an evolutionary process. You choose your fabrics depending upon what you want to say, then you work with mills to get those fabrics. Through the process, you realize what you want it to be.

Marc Jacobs

#21. In the new music landscape, with is the democratization of the internet and music in general, I think it can be a lot more collaborative.

Adrian Grenier

#22. When you're working in a collaborative storytelling medium, every step of the way, you're opening yourself up.

Lesli Linka Glatter

#23. I like stand-up. But I'd also like a family and house and a yard. I want to work with a lot of people, have colleagues; and on good film sets, there's people there that work with the same people for years and years. I love that collaborative spirit in that medium. Comedy is a lot more solitary.

Demetri Martin

#24. When you have great working relationships with people, both collaborative and creatively, everybody will always want to work together.

Edward Kitsis

#25. The multifaceted nature of the strong points of the enemy in this brutal warfare calls for nothing less than a global scale collaborative response that is stubbornly radical, yet humanely civil.

Ray Anyasi

#26. I think maybe the most important thing that I or anybody at my company and any of my colleagues can do is establish a trusting, productive, collaborative relationship with creative people.

John Landgraf

#27. There's going to be a lot of collaborative social experiences with Rift and Touch.

Brendan Iribe

#28. Our inability to think beyond our own species, or to be able to co-habit with other life forms in what is patently a massive collaborative quest for survival, is surely a malady that pervades the human soul.

Lawrence Anthony

#29. I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.

Alan Parker

#30. I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show.

Shawn Ryan

#31. I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level.

Ron White

#32. If you can design the physical space, the social space, and the information space together to enhance collaborative learning, then that whole milieu turns into a learning technology.

John Seely Brown

#33. I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.

Karen Bass

#34. The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.

Nicholas Meyer

#35. There's a lot of women's organisations, but they're all working separately. If you get people together, as a collaborative voice, it's strong.

Annie Lennox

#36. Endings are really hard to do, and it's hard to do an ending where it's sort of collaborative with thousands and thousands of people, and to satisfy all those people is impossible.

Jennifer Hale

#37. And as their penile pain began to subside, the two men were able to form more complex thoughts, resulting in a collaborative work: the development of a worldview that might be described as penilosophy.

Zack Love

#38. I'm a good collaborative writer. I can usually come in and add a couple lines to something, and add a riff or a B-section, or a bridge that will tie things together. I can do stuff like that. But to write a whole song, I don't have the patience for that, I guess.

James Young

#39. The army influences everything I do. Certainly it teaches you discipline, which is a necessary element of development. I think there's more of a collaborative understanding in the band because of that.

Maynard James Keenan

#40. As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas.

John Lasseter

#41. You need to have a collaborative hiring process.

Steve Jobs

#42. To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.

John C. Maxwell

#43. Television is much more collaborative in many ways than prose.

Ann Cleeves

#44. Before Google, I spent the summer building a program that would look at what websites you would go to and what websites other people would go to - and built a collaborative filtering program that helped you find related sites to look at.

Marissa Mayer

#45. Coding is the language of the future, and every girl should learn it. As I've learned from watching girls grow and learn in our classrooms, coding is fun, collaborative and creative.

Reshma Saujani

#46. Comedy is immediate. Comedy is a solo mission. You're all by yourself, up there. And when you're in a film, on a set, it's a collaborative effort. It's about me being a tool for somebody else to create a story and a character from nothing, from their imagination.

Dane Cook

#47. When you're doing collaborative music, the relationship that forms is a very bonding kind of experience.

Condoleezza Rice

#48. I'm a huge cinemaphile. My interest in filmmaking came out of experimenting with different genres, and I wanted to go back to working in a way that was more personal, which, for me, was artwork. Commercials and films are more collaborative.

Marco Brambilla

#49. For me, an ideal novel is a dialogue between writer and reader, both a collaborative experience and an intimate exchange of emotions and ideas. The reader just might be the most powerful tool in a writer's arsenal.

Jonathan Evison

#50. It's a collaborative art form where we can both learn something from the other. That's what you want from the relationship with a director.

Cam Gigandet

#51. Witchcraft is more than just a practice, it is a way of life. A way of looking at the physical and spiritual as a collaborative source of manifestation.
We are in tune with nature, in tune with ourselves and in alignment with our all-knowing inner witch.

Dacha Avelin

#52. Part of doing mash-ups is getting the legal rights to use the songs. If you're going to do a mash-up with five songs, you should probably find 10 songs, because you're only going to get half of them cleared. It's a real collaborative effort.

Harvey Mason Jr.

#53. Creativity in science is almost always cumulative and collaborative; it proceeds collectively and thus thrives when barriers to collectivity are reduced.

Lewis Hyde

#54. The journey matters as much as the destination. By engaging in the moment on set, I've stopped rushing and now find pleasure in the collaborative process - the characters, the costumes - rather than worrying about the finished product.

Michelle Dockery

#55. Compared to other generations, millennials tend to be more collaborative, are accustomed to working in teams & have a passion for pressure.

Joanie Connell

#56. All dancers are, by and large, a photographer's dream. They communicate with their bodies and they are trained to be completely responsive to a collaborative situation.

Annie Leibovitz

#57. One thing we know for sure is that the Web is a collaborative medium unlike any we've ever had before. We see people working together, playing together, interacting in social settings using these media. We hope that will emerge as the new tool for education.

Vint Cerf

#58. This is called synchronicity - a state in which you almost feel as if you are in a collaborative arrangement with fate.

Wayne Dyer

#59. Anytime I get the chance to sing or work with Michael John, it is such an incredibly fertile and incredibly creative and safe and encouraging environment - and challenging, too, because he is so collaborative!

Audra McDonald

#60. Theater is exciting because it is collaborative, but it is also exhausting for the same reason.

Mark O'Donnell

#61. I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.

Warren Ellis

#62. I like to think that the stuff I do is oftentimes collaborative, so to have other people in it felt natural.

Nick Kroll

#63. If you understand your character and feel like it's a collaborative process, you're more inclined to dive into the deep end and fight for your character and feel passionate about your character, and that passion comes across on screen.

Katheryn Winnick

#64. The result of the collaborative culture is that corporations or government institutions focus intensely on internal culture and pour their energy into achieving minuscule policy changes relating to workplace efficiency, gender or race.

Amity Shlaes

#65. I have the highest respect for stars and auteur directors. But I don't want to work with people who only invite me to the preview. We want to be in the collaborative movie business, not the financing one.

Sidney Sheinberg

#66. One of my favorite things about 'Castle' is the fact our writers and producers are so collaborative. They allow us to bring in ideas, and they try to make them happen for us.

Jon Huertas

#67. One of the things about working on stage - actually, about working in show business, that is - is that it's such a collaborative effort. I suppose that everything in life is - every endeavor where people are able to be successful.

Gregory Hines

#68. What's so great about making television is that it's a collaborative beast. It's created by a great many hands belonging to a great many people.

Vince Gilligan

#69. Witchcraft is a way of looking at the physical and spiritual as a collaborative source of manifestation.

Dacha Avelin

#70. In the computer industry, you've got an interdisciplinary team of people who can come together, attack the problem, and work in a collaborative style. You knock down one problem after another, cobble things together, and then hopefully turn the crank at some point.

Paul Allen

#71. I've done well because I'm lucky and I'm willing to be collaborative with the one thing you don't want to be collaborative with: your writing.

James Vanderbilt

#72. The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.

Jock Sturges

#73. I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.

Steven Bochco

#74. Like Neanderthals, men prefer to hunt alone or, if in a pack, at the head of it. Women, whether in the field or in a campfire, are collaborative, and when they hunt ... they work together.

Russell Banks

#75. A film is not done by one person. It's done by a lot of people. I love this whole collaborative aspect. When it works well, you end up with something better than any of us started out to do.

Jim Henson

#76. at Pixar, Steve couldn't shape the culture. He wasn't the founder, and even as owner, he could not change the company to reflect his image and sensibilities. It already had a culture. It already had a leader. Its cohesive and collaborative team knew exactly what it wanted to do.

Brent Schlender

#77. It's all about loyalty and collaboration, gathering your gang around you, finding your soulmate in filmmaking because it is a collaborative process. When failure happens, that family you gathered regroups around you and gives you the fresh energy you're lacking.

Matthew Jacobs

#78. The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.

Cory Doctorow

#79. What I find is with all due deference to - deference to our male colleagues, that women's styles tend to be more collaborative.

Susan Collins

#80. Collaborative is my favorite word in moviemaking.

J.K. Simmons

#81. Any film is a collaborative process, you've got thousands and thousands of people working on it.

Joseph Kosinski

#82. My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort.

John Bardeen

#83. Reviews about film acting are very ... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.

James Franco

#84. Film is a collaborative art form. I don't know why you wouldn't recognize the stunt performers.

David Leitch

#85. 'The Last Starfighter' was the first movie I did in the U.S. It was an absolute joy to be a part of it. 'Night of the Comet' was a labor of love. Truly a collaborative effort. I am eternally grateful for the experiences.

Catherine Mary Stewart

#86. I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.

Jesse Eisenberg

#87. A lot of directors want to storyboard you, whereas the best way to get a performance out of an actor is a collaborative process where you listen to the actor's input.

Jacki Weaver

#88. In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.

Godfrey Reggio

#89. Collaborative workshops and writers' peer groups hadn't been invented when I was young. They're a wonderful invention. They put the writer into a community of people all working at the same art, the kind of group musicians and painters and dancers have always had.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#90. Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help the person in front of you in realising his or her potential, the film invariably comes out good.

Randeep Hooda

#91. Conflict can be healthy within a collaborative group, as long as everyone sticks to the issues and things don't get personal.

Eunice Parisi-Carew

#92. In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.

Kelly Lynch

#93. I'm not a technical person, at all, but you get a little bit more of a sense for how to get something done a little bit more efficiently. I think everybody is in that place where it's a little bit more efficient, but the process is still the same, which is still loose and collaborative.

Ty Burrell

#94. Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike.

David Ives

#95. I reject the notion that science is by its nature secretive. Its culture and ethos are, and for very good reason, collective, collaborative, and communicative.

Carl Sagan

#96. A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

Robert Reich

#97. One of the things we did at PayPal was collaborative filtering and machine learning: looking at patterns of human behavior. We used it there to predict when people would try to cheat the system to get money. But you can predict pretty much any behavior with a certain amount of accuracy.

Max Levchin

#98. There is an extraordinary collaborative spirit when you are learning and growing.

Robbie Robertson

#99. There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.

Campbell Scott

#100. I love being in a band. I love that collaborative spirit, although some would suggest that I don't get involved in the collaborative spirit, but it's not true.

Trevor Rabin