Quotes About Cooperation

I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts in exactly the same way.

I do enjoy working with writers.

We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.

A lot of times, people assume that I write all the songs: that I arrange them and I stick Kevin up there as kind of a puppet or something. It's absolutely not that way. In fact, he writes probably 60 percent of the songs, and I write probably 40 percent.

When Sonic Youth writes music, we write everything in a very communal way. It doesn't matter who brought something in initially; it all gets transformed by the band.

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.

The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other.

To you Upholders, thanks in advance for cooperating with my request for promptness. Questioners, I gave you a bunch of reasons for why you need to show up on time at all the meetings. To you Obligers, I'm watching you, and I'm counting on you to be there promptly. Rebels, save it for the bar later." Exactly!

The Four Tendencies can help us . . . to give other people what they need-not what we would need. And then we can work together more harmoniously.

sometimes, when people are willing to go with the flow on a collaborative team project, they view my need to ask questions as not showing team spirit

We can live and work more effectively with others when we identify their Tendencies - as coworkers and bosses, teachers and coaches, husbands and wives, parents and children, health-care providers and patients.

Entre pauvres gens, faut bien qu'on s'aide ... C'est les grands qui font la guerre.

Voyez-vous, monsieur, entre pauvres gens, faut bien qu'on s'aide… C'est les grands qui font la guerre.

are two kinds of people: eaters and bakers. Eaters think the world is a zero-sum game: what you eat, someone else cannot eat, so they eat as much as they can. Bakers think that the world is not a zero-sum game—they can just bake more and bigger pies. Everyone can eat more. People trust bakers and not eaters.

There are two kinds of people and organizations in the world: eaters and bakers. Eaters want a bigger slice of an existing pie; bakers want to make a bigger pie. Eaters think that if they win, you lose, and if you win, they lose. Bakers think that everyone can win with a bigger pie.

Busca el acuerdo «La diplomacia es el arte de permitir a alguien hacer la tuya.» Daniele Varè

En el mundo hay dos tipos de personas y de organizaciones: los que comen y los que dan de comer. Los que comen quieren un trozo más grande del pastel; los que dan de comer quieren hacer un pastel más grande. Los que comen piensan que si ellos ganan, tú pierdes, y que si tú ganas, ellos pierden. Los que dan de comer creen que con un pastel más grande todo el mundo podría salir ganando.

Not everything can be achieved alone.

It now became clear that full national sovereignty was possible only as long as the comity of European nations existed; for it was this spirit of unorganized solidarity and agreement that prevented any government's exercise of its full sovereign power.

Un miembro de la raza humana completamente incapaz de comprender la mayor productividad de la división del trabajo y la propiedad privada no es, propiamente hablando, una persona, sino que moralmente es como un animal —

We are totally open kimono with regulators.

You know, it's just tough to get together and do work with somebody.

Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.

The best way to promote and protect opportunity is through collaboration, consensus-building, and pragmatic problem-solving. Throughout nearly 30 years in public service, I have approached tough challenges by making room for as many people as possible around the table in search of common ground.