Quotes About Collaboration

#1. Our ... advantage was that we had evolved unstated but fruitful methods of collaboration ... If either of us suggested a new idea, the other, while taking it seriously, would attempt to demolish it in a candid but non-hostile manner.

Francis Crick

#2. Books are a weird collaboration between author and reader: You trust me to tell a good story, and I trust you to bring it to good life in your mind.

John Green

#3. As Christians, we should be the best collaborators in the world. We should be quick to find unlikely allies and subversive friends, like Jesus did.

Shane Claiborne

#4. Having a team of people united by one purpose - to bring Christ to that city - is key for the emotional stability of all decision makers.

J.A. Perez

#5. Some of the greatest advances happen when people are bold enough to speak their truth and listen to others speak theirs.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#6. Collaboration requires focusing on everything from vision and values to how individuals can feel they are making a real contribution.

Jane Ripley

#7. I would say my dream collaboration would probably have to be with Drake. I think he is an amazing artist.

Austin Mahone

#8. We say submarining is a team sport, but in practice it often amounts to a bunch of individuals, each working in his own shell, rather than a rich collaboration.

L. David Marquet

#9. I was doing that [ a collaboration with Kurt Cobain] to try to save his life. The collaboration was me calling up as an excuse to reach out to this guy. He was in a really bad place.

Michael Stipe

#10. Build a heterogeneous team to close three gaps in innovation management - idea gaps, collaboration gaps, and implementation gaps

Pearl Zhu

#11. Your creativity is way older than you are, way older than any of us. Your very body and your very being are perfectly designed to live in collaboration with inspiration, and inspiration is still trying to find you - the same way it hunted down your ancestors.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#12. I love writing - it's the best. But I really hate collaboration.

Norm MacDonald

#13. Collaboration is much like a birth. The song that springs forth resembles each one of us to a degree, but it's the kind of thing that would never be born from just one of us sitting down with a guitar.

Grant-Lee Phillips

#14. It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.

Cecilia Bartoli

#15. Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients.

Henry Dreyfuss

#16. I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their presence or their own personality that make a character, that exaggerates some qualities and suppresses other qualities. It's always a real collaboration for me.

Jim Jarmusch

#17. Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.

Alexander Von Humboldt

#18. Debate is an attempt to cling to the illusion of control provided by a point of view designed to keep the ego in place; dialogue is an attempt to dance with the unknown at the risk of losing what we think we know.

Oli Anderson

#19. The cows in Stella Gibbons's immortal 'Cold Comfort Farm' are named Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless, and that more or less is the verdict on 'Ocean's Kingdom,' the wildly hyped and wildly uninteresting collaboration between Peter Martins and Paul McCartney.

Robert Gottlieb

#20. Fundraising is also always a call conversion. And this comes to both those who seek funds and those who have funds. Whether we are asking for money or giving money we are drawn together by God, who is about to do a new thing through our collaboration.

Henri

#21. In Australia, there aren't a lot of people committed to art, so these communities form that are dedicated to music, theater, cinema, but they're very small. So, they tend to move ahead on the power of collaboration, enthusiasm and creativity.

Joel Edgerton

#22. If our show [Carpool Karaoke] shines, then I shine. I don't ever want to come out and make anything about me. I want to make it about them, make them the best that they can be. And the whole thing is a collaboration, those carpools.

James Corden

#23. We hope that through these trade arrangements, through collaboration in training, in manpower development, and what have you, ASEAN in, say, ten years' time, will be a very different ASEAN.

Sellapan Ramanathan

#24. A partner's different perspective is valuable, but the very fact that it is different means that it will require work, humility, time, and resources to incorporate that perspective. At times, this will require checking one's pride at the door.

Ron Garan

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

John C. Maxwell

#26. Collaboration is far more powerful than competition. Do not think that only if you are pushed to the wall, you will do your best.

Jaggi Vasudev

#27. It is not only one person's work, it's really a partnership and collaboration during all these years.

Christo

#28. The CEO's role in raising a company's corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration.

Bill Gates

#29. The fun for me in collaboration is, one, working with other people just makes you smarter; that's proven.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#30. A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren't echo chambers.

Margaret Heffernan

#31. Genuine collaboration is an environment that promotes communication, learning, maximum contribution, and innovation.

Jane Ripley

#32. Collaboration is vital to sustain what we call profound or really deep change, because without it, organizations are just overwhelmed by the forces of the status quo.

Peter M. Senge

#33. Schiaparelli's collaborations with Dali and Cocteau as well as Prada's Fondazione Prada push art and fashion ever closer, in a direct, synergistic, and culturally redefining relationship.

Thomas P. Campbell

#34. Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.

Simon Mainwaring

#35. I vividly remember going to Google Docs, opening a document at the same time other students were working on it, and seeing their differently colored cursors moving around the screen, typing new words and making edits in real time. It was an epiphany.

Ian Lamont

#36. Though he had spoken of the subject many times, in the silence of his room he added the powerful kind of phrasing that would not have occurred to him as he spoke, because it's origins were in the collaboration of hand and pen.

Mark Helprin

#37. I don't design. I don't paint. I absolutely never touch my works ...

Maurizio Cattelan

#38. I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine.

Steven Levy

#39. I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

#40. To be an objective leader means aligning your models with the needs of the organization. There is no question anymore that collaboration, seeking out diverse perspectives and developing new ways to look at challenges and opportunities, is a key leadership competency.

Elizabeth Thornton

#41. Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.

Zainab Salbi

#42. So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.

Vince Gill

#43. To make a collaboration succeed there can be no visible contusions or abrasions. For the collaboration to succeed, the relationship must be nourished and survive. That is absolutely essential for a collaboration to succeed.

Van Dyke Parks

#44. A person that only looks to benefit from other people, usually ends up alone.

J.A. Perez

#45. Open collaboration encourages greater accountability, which in turn fosters trust.

Ron Garan

#46. 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.

Amy Poehler

#47. The strength that comes from human collaboration is the central truth behind civilisation's success and the primary reason why cities existwe must free ourselves from our tendency to see cities as their buildings, and remember that the real city is made of flesh, not concrete.

Edward Glaeser

#48. Structure influences behavior. Design spaces that make you feel "you are welcome here and that you came to the right place."

Peter Block

#49. Filmmaking is a miracle of collaboration.

James McAvoy

#50. Sometimes, great collaboration is hard to nurture online, so doing so offline is the way to go.

Cameron Russell

#51. Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers - and at some point the distinction should become meaningless,

Nick Denton

#52. The welfare of a people lies not in casting other peoples down but in peaceful collaboration.

Ludwig Von Mises

#53. I don't remember saying nothing about me crossing over. I did R&B collaborations but I never tried to do no pop stuff.

Big Daddy Kane

#54. Muse [10w]
Poetry's a collaboration with your muse.
Silence!
Let her speak.

Beryl Dov

#55. My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google.

Ray Kurzweil

#56. I used to be opposed to collaboration, and that's probably why the music in the past wasn't as good. Writing with other people, especially the great writers that I've had the privilege to write with, it activates something in your mind that you wouldn't use alone.

Charlie Puth

#57. America is best when we work in collaboration with our allies. America is best when we are actually standing up to evil in this world. And ISIS, make no mistake about it, is an evil in this world.

Hillary Clinton

#58. I have been getting offers from international artistes for collaboration all across the globe, but I prefer to work with Indian artistes.

Kailash Kher

#59. When I got to GM they were using a matrix method of management which means everybody has more than one boss. I first heard about that system many years ago. It's supposed to help with collaboration, but my assessment is that it's pretty hard to get geared for action that way.

Edward Whitacre Jr.

#60. Who approaches collaboration with agenda in terms of content? The agenda is only in terms of process, which is generosity, listening, careful thinking.

Eyvind Kang

#61. I believe in collaboration. I think that is the most entertaining and effective way to write for me, personally.

Jonah Hill

#62. Collaboration is like the sex of creativity.

Francis Ford Coppola

#63. I've been working with Five Four. The partnership started as one monthly collaboration, but now I'm the creative design director. There are still going to be collaborations for monthly drops, but we are launching e-commerce.

Mark McNairy

#64. Social embedded business processes that solve concrete needs are key to enterprise social collaboration.

Marc Benioff

#65. We have to accept that much of reality is ineffable and so to understand it we can't rely on words alone.

Oli Anderson

#66. Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration

James D. Watson

#67. I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.

Yahoo Serious

#68. Life is a collaboration, it's not a solo act.

Tim Gunn

#69. Denzel Washington: I like the collaboration, I like seeing people do well, so I really plan to direct the rest of my days.

Denzel Washington

#70. I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.

Talib Kweli

#71. In terms of collaboration, working on a new piece is always thrilling, as I'm sure most people would say, because the playwright is in the room and the piece itself evolves in response to what is happening in the room.

Gideon Glick

#72. In a lifetime there are only a few people you can work with ... where you can trust each other and push each other in different directions.

Errollyn Wallen

#73. I left college two months ago because it rewards conformity rather than independence, competition rather than collaboration, regurgitation rather than learning and theory rather than application. Our creativity, innovation and curiosity are schooled out of us.

Dale J. Stephens

#74. Swiss watchmaking and Silicon Valley is a marriage of technological innovation with watchmaking credibility. Our collaboration provides a rich host of synergies, forming a win-win partnership, and the potential for our three companies is enormous,

Jean-Claude Biver

#75. The most productive, healthy and satisfying relationships are based, not on a quid pro quo but an ebb and flow of mutual support over time. Don't just be a giver. Be an extremely helpful giver who demonstrates an awareness of what that person most needs.

Kare Anderson

#76. It's often overlooked. It's labor. That's at the heart of # collaboration .

Martin Scorsese

#77. There's four main pillars to the bow tie - self-representation, service, collaboration and critical thought. You have to understand how to represent yourself and critically understand how to collaborate and serve others.

Dhani Jones

#78. What I love about making movies is that it's a collaboration. It's one of the most rewarding things, to create something and have someone show you something that you didn't see, and vice versa.

Hilary Swank

#79. Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.

Daniel Barber

#80. Global collaboration is something that Wiki mastered in a small way and here we can master it in a big way.

Ward Cunningham

#81. I'm basically the idea person. I'm not physically involved in the production. I don't have the necessary abilities, so I go to the top people.

Jeff Koons

#82. I'm not a huge fan of covers in general, but collaborations always make them more fun - they're sort of neutral territory.

Keith Murray

#83. I show how much of the wars of religion involved Catholics killing Catholics, Lutherans killing Lutherans, and Catholic-Protestant collaboration. (Page 10 The Myth of Religious Violence)

William Cavanaugh

#84. After mutual respect and understanding are achieved, it is possible to establish real, sincere relationships, which is the foundation of a solid long-term collaboration.

Ron Garan

#85. I'd love to work on a script in collaboration.

Matthew McGrory

#86. We took out the safe haven in Afghanistan, but now there is, undoubtedly, a larger safe haven and we must rise to this occasion in collaboration and with alliances to confront it, and invest in the future much better human intelligence so we know what the next steps are.

Martin O'Malley

#87. In 1983, I became the Vincent and Brook Astor Professor at The Rockefeller University, where I established a new Laboratory of Neurobiology and continued my close collaboration with Charles Gilbert on the circuitry of primary visual cortex.

Torsten Wiesel

#88. Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.

Ban Ki-moon

#89. There comes a point with any collaboration like that where you start having other interests creatively. I was moving in one direction musically, and as a guitar player, Mark wanted to move in another direction. That was essentially the reason we broke up.

Scott Stapp

#90. A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part.

Randolph Bourne

#91. Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.

Don Tapscott

#92. The digital revolution has deepened the crisis within representative democracy. But as it forces its demise, it might also dictate its future. Traditional representative democracy within nations is no longer enough. People want more participation and collaboration with their government.

Eduardo Paes

#93. Hopefully, if not it's not working right. I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas.

Jim Jarmusch

#94. Crafting something unique and logical requires trust and mutual collaboration.

Steven Cuoco

#95. I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.

John Green

#96. Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

Freeman Thomas

#97. Collaboration is key, it takes innovation and creativity to the next room.

Shawn Lukas

#98. Going with the flow is responding to cues from the universe. It's not about sitting back and waiting for things to happen. It's a mindful trust and complete collaboration with what is present here and now.

Deepak Chopra

#99. A successful collaboration is all about trust and respect. If you show people trust they will perform better.

Oh Land

#100. I think the key to working with my husband is that collaboration in comedy is best.

Casey Wilson