Collaboration Quotations

Collaboration is no longer painful - or precious.

Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration.

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

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction.

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.

One of my dream collaborations is to work with Sade. I would love to work with Andre 3000, Miguel.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very quick.

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.

That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.

I've never been asked to do a collaboration. I guess I just don't give off that come-and-get-me vibe. I wouldn't be adverse to doing one with Coldplay or U2 - anyone who sells 50 million albums.

As always in a musical collaboration: One has to like each other. As simple as that.

The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.

There are many collaborations I'd like to explore. One is to co-write a rap concerto with Eminem.

What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.

I think a good relationship is about collaboration.

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them.

I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.

I love doing collaborations - it's always good to do something that's out the box.

I've done a lot of collaboration over the years, but right now I'm enjoying writing by myself and just being me again for a while.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

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

I don't know if it'd be any time soon but I'd really like to work on a collaboration with somebody - I always have ideas for stuff like that.

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

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

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.

I learn a lot from my experiences and collaborations. Most of my collaborations are meant for me to learn.

I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.

I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to do it.

Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow.

Without community, there is no liberation.

Collaboration is the best way to work. It's the only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.

Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really.

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

Politeness is the poison of collaboration.

Collaboration is a nice change of pace from the often solitary nature of the writer's craft.

We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.

Every collaboration helps you grow.

I'm a very big believer in collaboration and teamwork.

I'm always open to discussing collaborations.

In the United States, there is no end which human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united in a society.

I'm an actor and I love to find new collaborations and new characters where I can grow as an actor and human being.

The future of cinema and communications is all about collaboration and the decentralized control of storytelling. We're all part of the story; we can all contribute and participate.

The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.

I think because I do model for brands but it's never without input, ever. With AG I front their campaign, and obviously designed the collection for them. I did the same back in the day with Madewell. Even with Longchamp, there's a certain amount of collaboration on deciding on photographers and stuff like that. It's something that I'm accustomed to doing behind the scenes.

I always need a support team, even at Donna Karan. I like collaborating. There is something in collaboration that is wonderful.

Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as community entrepreneurship.

This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others.

Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.

The collaboration really begins once the rehearsal starts. This is when the actor takes his place, because he becomes the one who is going to bring the words of the author off the page.

Creative collaboration is awesome.

Those who can ask without shame are viewing themselves in collaboration with-rather than in competition with-the world.

The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products. Our knowledge is contextual and only contextual. Ordering and invention coincide: we call their collaboration knowledge.

Collaboration is not an absolute good.

We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.

I believe in collaboration, which is why I work with others to make positive contributions of consequence, and why I have made a very clear and unwavering commitment to remain absolutely apolitical.

Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?

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.

I like the idea of collaboration - it pushes you. It's a richer experience...

Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is fear, and a democratic society presupposes confidence and candor in the relations of men with one another and eager collaboration for the larger ends of life instead of the pursuit of petty, selfish or vainglorious aims.

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.

Collaboration is like the sex of creativity.

I think film is collaboration, and I always want to hear everyone's input.

Err in the direction of kindness.

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.

Collaboration - the ultimate intertwining of skills, passions, and knowledge - is what concocts the most shatterproof forms of changemaking.

Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps competition, inclusivity replaces exclusivity and transparency and openness to others becomes essential to the new way of conducting business, empathic sensibility has room to breathe and thrive. It is no longer so constrained by hierarchies, boundaries of exclusion, and a concept of human nature that places acquisitiveness, self-interest, and utility at the center of the human experience."

Success takes communication, collaboration and, sometimes, failure.

I don't do a lot of collaborations that I don't believe in. Actually, I don't do any collaborations that I don't believe in.

The amazing thing about an artistic collaboration is that it is as intense and intimate as a romantic one. Sometimes even more so.

I like style. For Dior, I did more of a collaboration shoot, not just a single image - so there was more to it. It's a very prestigious brand. I like their style and feel like their style is mine.

I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world.

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

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

Personally Im very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.

All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on coercion can't endure. It's too expensive.

Another roof, another proof.

Filmmaking is such a collaboration. At a certain point, I suppose you do have to let go and trust the people you're working with.

I don't necessarily love all the collaborations that I've done; the more I work with other people, the more I realize that I want to work with myself.

Collaboration equals innovation.

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

Sometimes it’s more a matter of collaboration which matters in a collection.

Collaboration is when magic is made with more than one person. It's when more than one person finds common ground on the same page. That's collaboration.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

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.

It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life.

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

Intelligence will become more and more collective; innovation and order will become more and more bottom up.

I'm an investor in MakerBot, which is a good example of the 'thingiverse'. The idea of applying collaboration and rapid iteration to things that we interact with and hold in our hands every day is super revolutionary.

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

As much as I have done collaborations over the years, I am actually kind of a reluctant partner.

MAC allowed me to have complete freedom on the collaborations—from the shades, the look-and-feel, to the campaign visuals. I have to admit that the visual aspect of the collection excites me most. For designers, we care about the photographs much more than a Ferrari.

An interviewer once asked me to discuss my collaboration with Elmer Bernstein, and precisely why I chose to work with him. My first thought was: How could I not work with Elmer, when I had the chance? Simply put, he's the best there is-the very best.

I love collaboration of all kinds, and I love the way that collaboration pulls me into directions I wouldn't go in if I was working on my own.

Adapting a book is essentially a collaboration, whether the author is alive or dead.

I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist.

I want to collaborate. I'm a big believer in collaboration.

Filmmaking is a miracle of collaboration.