Top 81 Quotes About Collaborators

#1. 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

#2. The unconscious is our best collaborator.

Mike Nichols

#3. All the collaborators of storytelling, in film and television, have to be partly self-centered because they need to do their work the best they can, and that's what makes them really good at what they do, but then they also have to be a part of the socialist society, for the greater good.

Ray McKinnon

#4. I think one thing for sure that you learn the more films that you make is how important it is to choose your collaborators.

Brit Marling

#5. Up and down the lanes, the last unevacuated townspeople wake, groan, sigh. Spinsters, prostitutes, men over sixty. Procrastinators, collaborators, disbelievers, drunks. Nuns of every order. The poor. The stubborn. The blind.

Anthony Doerr

#6. My process in making a music video is pretty much a formula of talking to the artist. I've never made a video where I didn't talk to the artist before I wrote the treatment. Basically, I enter into it knowing we are collaborators.

Adria Petty

#7. I consider myself extremely lucky to have worked with so many great collaborators in my lifetime.

Trey Anastasio

#8. When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

Sidney Sheldon

#9. I think that in the minds of many, the press is being seen less and less as a neutral observer in the impeachment enterprise and more and more as participants, or even collaborators. On Media's Participation In Watergate

Pat Buchanan

#10. It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family.

George Porter

#11. I take a lot of inspiration from the people I work with, and having many collaborators keeps me challenged and inspired.

Nick Blaemire

#12. The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.

Mandy Patinkin

#13. We only want autonomous collaborators that are incentivized to make or break their own income.

Joel Salatin

#14. Why hire these geniuses if they're forced to stick with the script? You want to empower your actors as collaborators.

Shawn Levy

#15. You have to have doubts. I have collaborators I work with. I listen and then I decide. That's how it works.

Giorgio Armani

#16. As a director, you're only as good as your collaborators. You surround with collaborators that are going to understand what you're trying to do. Not only that, they're going to push and fight for what you're trying to do.

Alfonso Cuaron

#17. The industrial world would be a more peaceful place if workers were called in as collaborators in the process of establishing standards and defining shop practices, matters which surely affect their interests and well-being fully as much as they affect those of employers and consumers.

Mary Barnett Gilson

#18. You have to know that your collaborators want you to make the movie that you want. Don't back down because you think it's nice to them. You need to have the film be the way that you want it.

Josephine Decker

#19. God says, "Please, please help me realize this dream." And some of God's best collaborators are the young, because you dream. You dream God's dream.

Desmond Tutu

#20. I'm constantly thinking about trying to piece together collaborators ... All disciplines can be narrow ...

Judith Weir

#21. However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.

Walter Kohn

#22. A secret history of the US Government's Nazi-hunting operation concludes that American intelligence officials created a safe haven in the US for Nazis and their collaborators after WW2 and it details decades of clashes, often hidden, with other nations over war criminals here and abroad.

James Morcan

#23. The most advanced, creative and original thinking is always a product of historical context and the influences of previous geniuses, mentors, and collaborators on the mind of the originator.

Michael J. Gelb

#24. Democrats - lily-livered, weasel-assed collaborators.

Michael Parenti

#25. Hodel saw it through her sister's eyes: women were created to be in every way partners, not mindless slaves or brainless doormats, but helpers, collaborators, equals. And that was a thing of great beauty

Alexandra Silber

#26. Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard.

Gwen Stefani

#27. I've had wonderful collaborators. They're very different, just as actors are. Working on a show with Nathan Lane is different from working on a show with Chita Rivera. It keeps you on your toes because it's different every time.

Terrence McNally

#28. That quality is what makes women great collaborators; we understand it's a team effort. Even if it comes from society telling us to be polite.

Rachel Bloom

#29. It would have to stand on the basis of what somebody had done to it and that would be the basis on which it would be judged. So it's a funny art form. You gain a great deal when you have good collaborators and sometimes people just don't understand what you've done.

Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

#30. A thinking partner who isn't an echo chamber ... How many of us dare to have such collaborators?

Margaret Heffernan

#31. Darwinism by itself did not produce the Holocaust, but without Darwinism ... neither Hitler nor his Nazi followers would have had the necessary scientific underpinnings to convince themselves and their collaborators that one of the worlds greatest atrocities was really morally praiseworthy.

Richard Weikart

#32. Collaborators let down their guards. Successful collaborators still carry a taser.

Ryan Lilly

#33. The biggest thing I have realized was that you have to choose your collaborators very carefully, and that not everybody can like you. The process of filmmaking is so difficult, there's no point in doing it unless you can do it the way you want.

Peter Capaldi

#34. I have an incredible team of collaborators that work with me on all my films. I adore them and respect them tremendously. I can't wait to begin production on my next film so we can be reunited.

Dori Berinstein

#35. Full Circle integrates the indigenous and modern practices, bringing individuals, community and organizations together as indispensable collaborators realizing a co-creative, sustainable and fulfilling future.

Andrew Keegan

#36. I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.

Bebe Neuwirth

#37. I credit my collaborators for allowing me to grow. Without them I wouldn't have that opportunity.

Dave Koz

#38. Writing a screen play with a group of collaborators is like the Lennon McCartney collaboration ... sometimes one or two people do more than others on certain parts of the process and vice versa.

Peter Jackson

#39. While it would be as wrong of me to attribute these traits to women at the exclusion of men as it would be for a man to do the reverse, I think women can often be very strong team players and good communicators and collaborators.

Diane Nelson

#40. I didn't know anything about music when I started a band. I barely knew how to play a guitar. I didn't know how to produce records. I learned how to play bass guitar and keyboards in Rilo Kiley. I picked up a lot from my collaborators.

Jenny Lewis

#41. If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.

Brian Wilson

#42. Only the closest collaborators of the Fuehrer know how difficult is the burden of this responsibility; how sorrowful are the hours during which decisions must be made which bear upon the well being and the fate of all of Germany.

Hjalmar Schacht

#43. Every time you start a movie is to explore with a director and if you can with the actors and with the other collaborators and try to figure out what's the best way to tell the specific story.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#44. Artists are not your art monkeys. They are your collaborators. They should be given all due consideration to follow their journey.

Brian Michael Bendis

#45. In some respects I'm quite easily led, so I have to make sure I've got my own space, and that I feel comfortable in my working environment. It's very important for me to work with the right collaborators, as I can easily get led into a corner where I'm not comfortable.

Steve Winwood

#46. I guess these days this is a politically charged statement, but it seems to me manifestly true: You make nothing alone. Human beings are not mere competitors, and human life is not merely competition. We are collaborators. To be human is to catch the falling person.

John Green

#47. Directing is a terrible, anxious process. It's all collaboration, and if you have a dream, it's diluted very quickly by the slightest ineptness in any of your collaborators. They're supposed to help you, but too often they help you into your grave.

Mel Brooks

#48. If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic results of the sexual revolution? Because many are collaborators.

Pat Buchanan

#49. A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

Mike Gordon

#50. Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women, for the moral tarring and feathering they give indigenous women who have had the bad luck to live in what they make their humping ground.

Julie Burchill

#51. I tend to choose collaborators who are more courageous than I am. I think it's good for me.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

#52. The goal is to align with your core group of collaborators, who understand your vision and aesthetics. I usually show them visual material of what I have in mind, as well as a color spectrum of mood boards.

Marc Forster

#53. This story of benign judicial neglect of Nazis and collaborators forms a striking contrast with the systematic repression of the Greek Left, which lasted for over two decades.

Mark Mazower

#54. The best you can hope for is a great collaborator.

Lauren Graham

#55. Sasha tipped back her head to look at him. She made a point of doing this now and then, just to remind Coz that she wasn't an idiot - she knew the question had a right answer. She and Coz were collaborators, writing a story whose end had already been determined: she would get well.

Jennifer Egan

#56. Even though I design my own jewelry, one of the great things about my job is being able to bring in really talented collaborators.

Monika Chiang

#57. The future belongs to those who are creative collaborators

William J. Clinton

#58. Joy and serenity are not slavishly tied to our physiology. We are not programmed neurons over which we have no control. We are collaborators in the generation of our thoughts and emotions.

Jerome Kagan

#59. I've seen so many of my friends and collaborators struggle and face the challenge of feeling like what they're working so hard to create and put into the world isn't important or appreciated ... it's like being in love with someone who won't give you the time of day.

Kate Brown

#60. Finlay was the godfather of a problem that's rampant everywhere today. He called the people who made his work 'collaborators' ... nowadays it's 'fabricators' ... talented people who are grateful, desperate and thwarted. There's plenty of them.

Alexander Stoddart

#61. It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.

Amartya Sen

#62. I urge you to be teachers so that you can join with children as the co-collaborators in a plot to build a little place of ecstasy and poetry and gentle joy

Jonathan Kozol

#63. I'm glad I went through the training because I've met such great mentors and lifelong friends/collaborators along the way. Also, any training (acting, movement, dance, piano, singing, etc) allowed me to hone my skills and find an inner space of self-generating creativity.

Jade Hassoune

#64. For a writer, readers are the best collaborators.

Mark Rubinstein

#65. We are collaborators in creation.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#66. One person can't know or like everything, so an editor needs collaborators whose opinions and expertise he values and can trust.

Toni Jerrman

#67. Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

Heraclitus

#68. I could have an office all to myself but since my collaborators don't have one, then I too am contented to have a desk in a shared room.

Ingvar Kamprad

#69. It's very exciting to be a part of a team of collaborators in general.

Sara Bareilles

#70. As a director myself, you want to have colleagues and collaborators that respect your authority as the director. I'm very comfortable with that, and I've done a lot of work in second unit.

Roman Coppola

#71. From the time we're born, our brothers and sisters are our collaborators and coconspirators, our role models and our cautionary tales,

Jeffrey Kluger

#72. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women.

Julie Burchill

#73. Criminals did not have friends. They had associates, suppliers, fences, whores, sugar daddies, enablers, dealers, collaborators, co-conspirators, victims and bosses, any of whom they might rat out and none of whom could be trusted.

Robert Crais

#74. I think different musical collaborators bring out different qualities in my songs and I like that.

Conor Oberst

#75. Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#76. It was relatively easy, we now realize, to categorize countries and nations. You knew who your enemies were and whom you could count on as collaborators and friends. And even more importantly, you had ready-made scapegoats to take the blame when things were going wrong.

Desmond Tutu

#77. North and south must also adopt measures to arrest the growing phenomenon of illegal capital flight and the repatriation of illicit wealth siphoned abroad by corrupt political leaders and their collaborators back to their countries of origin,

Olusegun Obasanjo

#78. I did not set out to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs. I'm a particle physicist, and I was actually thinking about dark matter along with some collaborators.

Lisa Randall

#79. For a producer, you want to be in L.A. You want to be close to the action, and in L.A. there are always singers, artists, songwriters, collaborators and other producers. It's easy to get access to all that, which gives you more opportunity to work records.

Steve Aoki

#80. For me, writing is a solitary thing and a personal thing. And it's weird, because when you make something that requires money and collaborators, you have to talk about them. I don't enjoy that part of it. I still want to keep it to myself.

Mike White

#81. If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

Walter Jon Williams

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