Collaboration famous quotes

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.
-- Adam Braun

#Passion #Collaboration #United States

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

#Grateful #People #Collaboration

Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
-- Alice Walker

#White #Collaboration #Earth

Creative collaboration is awesome.
-- Alicia Silverstone

#Creative #Collaboration

A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait.
-- Alvin Langdon Coburn

#Artist #Portraits #Collaboration

hybrid, n. A pooled issue.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Issues #Collaboration #Hybrid

This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others.
-- Andre Agassi

#Helping Others #Perfection #Collaboration

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
-- Andre Gide

#Spiritual #Art #Collaboration

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

#Unity #Vision #Collaboration

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.
-- Angela Lansbury

#Collaboration #Actors #Rehearsal

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

#Collaboration #Way #Working It

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.
-- Antony Starr

#Skills #Collaboration #Boards

Combating climate change requires collaboration with many levels of government.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

#Government #Climate #Collaboration

Without community, there is no liberation.
-- Audre Lorde

#Change #Community #Collaboration

We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi

#Hands #Collaboration #Destination

Some [intentional communities], like the Shakers and the Harmony Society, have endured for a century or even longer. The Hutterians, to cite an extreme example, are today still strongly committed to communal living after practicing it, punctuated only by occasional lapses into private enterprise, for 450 years. The Hutterian rate of membership turnover has been only about 0.0006 per year.
-- Benjamin Zablocki

#Years #Community #Collaboration

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Change #Teamwork #Collaboration

Every collaboration helps you grow.
-- Brian Eno

#Collaboration #Helping #Grows

Twitter represents a collective collaboration that manifests our ability to unconsciously connect kindred voices through the experiences that move us. As such, Twitter is a human seismograph.
-- Brian Solis

#Moving #Voice #Collaboration

It's good to go back and look at what other states are doing. For example, Mayo Clinics and the University of Minnesota had a collaborative grant program that we modeled our program after, so we went back to talk to them about the successes of their program. It's been very successful, the state is going back to fund it again, and it's resulted in a great deal of collaboration and specifically patented technology.
-- Brian Thompson

#Successful #Technology #Collaboration

Collaboration sometimes causes conflict, and sometimes it's easy, but the bringing together of great minds only adds.
-- Cary Fukunaga

#Mind #Together #Collaboration

Groups become more extreme and entrenched in their beliefs and polarized from others when members only exchange information that reinforces their views and filter out all else or never learn of alternatives. Thus they narrow their options, and magnify each other's prejudices and misconceptions. This trend leads to blind spots in decision making and to extreme behavior, even terrorism.
-- Cass Sunstein

#Views #Decision #Collaboration

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

#Interesting #Joy #Collaboration

I've never written anything that wasn't somewhat of a collaboration. I don't know how people do it on their own.
-- Charlie Day

#People #Collaboration

You can't change the bricks, and together, you still have to build a wall.
-- Chris Hadfield

#Wall #Together #Collaboration

There is a need in every generation to study the past, to absorb its spirit, to preserve its messages...it's a collaboration of ourselves and our ancestors, the result is a deeper understanding for individuals and in consequence, a broader culture for the nation.
-- Christopher Tunnard

#Past #Understanding #Collaboration

Collaboration is not an absolute good.
-- Clay Shirky

#Collaboration

We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.
-- Clay Shirky

#Moving #Collaboration #Cooperation

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.
-- Cliff Curtis

#Believe #Commitment #Collaboration

Going with the flow is responding to cues from the universe. When you go with the flow, you’re surfing Life force. It’s about wakeful trust and total collaboration with what’s showing up for you.
-- Danielle LaPorte

#Surfing #Collaboration #Going With The Flow

A chance to collaborate with one of my favorite bands in a completely open and supportive creative environment... some our best work.
-- Dave Genn

#Creative #Supportive #Collaboration

Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.
-- David Deutsch

#Technology #Collaboration #Tasks

If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.
-- David Harvey

#Wall #Political #Collaboration

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.
-- Delta Goodrem

#Writing #Years #Collaboration

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

#People #Collaboration #Denzel

The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons.
-- Desmond Tutu

#Law #Collaboration #Fundamentals

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

#Self #Ties #Collaboration

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

#Government #Collaboration #Cost

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.
-- Donald Bren

#Community #Collaboration #Nonprofits

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

#Real #Cities #Collaboration

Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
-- Edwin Land

#Teamwork #Decision #Collaboration

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

#Thinking #Collaboration #Thumbs

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

#Dream #Collaboration

There's only one thing that all the successful companies in the world have in common: None was started by one person.
-- Ernesto Sirolli

#Successful #Collaboration #World

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

#People #Collaboration #Different

Effective collaboration is about maximizing time, talent and tools to create value. The old way was the pass-along approach. I do my job and then pass along my work product to you. You do your piece of it and pass it along to somebody else.
-- Evan Rosen

#Jobs #Collaboration #Tools

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

#Rap #Writing #Collaboration

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.
-- Felix Frankfurter

#Selfish #Men #Collaboration

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

#Ideas #Collaboration #Candid

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

#Ideas #Collaboration

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Teamwork #Competition #Collaboration

Err in the direction of kindness.
-- George Saunders

#Kindness #Collaboration

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

#People #Collaboration #Pieces

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

#Country #Collaboration #Accomplished

I think in most cases, if you're with good people, comedy creation happens faster in collaboration. That's how I can tell if it's a good collaboration: If it's faster than me by myself, then it works. If it's slower than me by myself, then I get out of the room.
-- Harry Shearer

#Thinking #People #Collaboration

Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients.
-- Henry Dreyfuss

#Design #Clients #Collaboration

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

#Vices #Collaboration #Vice Versa

Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like.
-- Huston Smith

#Practice #Giving #Collaboration

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

#Garden #People #Collaboration

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

#Giving #Collaboration #Talent

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.
-- Jacques Ibert

#Dream #Thinking #Collaboration

Filmmaking is a miracle of collaboration.
-- James McAvoy

#Miracle #Collaboration #Filmmaking

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.
-- Janelle Monae

#Believe #Collaboration

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

#Winning #Innovation #Collaboration

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

#Ideas #People #Collaboration

I think a good relationship is about collaboration.
-- Jennifer Aniston

#Thinking #Good Relationship #Collaboration

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."
-- Jeremy Rifkin

#Self #Competition #Collaboration

Success takes communication, collaboration and, sometimes, failure.
-- Jessica Alba

#Communication #Collaboration #Sometimes

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

#Trying #Collaboration #Way

Solution = Conflict + Collaboration
-- John Baldoni

#Leadership #Collaboration #Conflict

I am always making sketches of how information should look or mapping out a marketing campaign. When I present my notes, people start responding to them. Desktop publishing makes everything look slick. When you present sketches, it helps start the dialogue and collaboration.
-- John Katzman

#People #Marketing #Collaboration

World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
-- Jon Meacham

#War #Men #Collaboration

Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a collaboration between writer and reader, an invaluable exchange of human conditions.
-- Jonathan Evison

#Reading #Collaboration #Genuine

For the second album I look forward to doing a lot of serious collaboration and taking the experiences I've had over this last year, good and bad, and working it into the album.
-- Justin Guarini

#Years #Collaboration #Albums

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

#Collaboration #Globes #Offers

Schinkel's aesthetic was not a crudely materialistic "truth to material" affair... but rather an attempt to inform iron and other industrial materials with an appropriate beauty through the direct collaboration of the artist in the manufacturing process.
-- Karl Friedrich Schinkel

#Artist #Iron #Collaboration

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

#Collaboration #Boxes

Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.
-- Ken Robinson

#Teamwork #Growth #Collaboration

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

#Collaboration #World #Working It

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

#Simple #Musical #Collaboration

Excellence in our society is less a product of conflict and hostility than of collaboration.
-- Lance Secretan

#Team #Excellence #Collaboration

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.
-- Leighton Meester

#Ideas #Collaboration #Stuff

The individual within the collective is never, or hardly ever, conscious of the prevailing thought style, which almost always exerts an absolutely compulsive force upon his thinking and with which it is not possible to be at variance.
-- Ludwik Fleck

#Thinking #Style #Collaboration

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.
-- Madonna Ciccone

#Letting Go #People #Collaboration

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

#Keys #Collaboration #Needs

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

#Thinking #Echoes #Collaboration

I want to collaborate with me 'cause I've done so many collaborations that after a certain point unless you're really working with a certain caliber of an artist, there's no point [to collaborate].
-- Mariah Carey

#Artist #Collaboration #Done

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

#Behind The Scenes #Directors #Collaboration

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.
-- Matt Mullenweg

#Hands #Ideas #Collaboration

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

#Order #Innovation #Collaboration

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

#Collaboration #Scripts

I don't design. I don't paint. I absolutely never touch my works...
-- Maurizio Cattelan

#Design #Collaboration #Paint

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.
-- Maya Angelou

#Life #God #Collaboration

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

#Dream #Collaboration #Helping

Collaboration equals innovation.
-- Michael Dell

#Innovation #Collaboration

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.
-- Michael Urie

#Magic #Pages #Collaboration

Sometimes those who give the most are the ones with the least to spare.
-- Mike McIntyre

#Giving #Collaboration #Sometimes

Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers — and at some point the distinction should become meaningless,
-- Nick Denton

#Collaboration #Should #Distinction

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.
-- Norah Jones

#Collaboration #Social #Music Is

Another roof, another proof.
-- Paul Erdos

#Collaboration #Proof #Roof