Quotes About Collaboration

Unless you are genuinely interested in working with someone, don't. It doesn't matter how big an expert they are, or how much grant money the project would bring in. Stay away from things that do not interest you.

Earlier, Man ruled woman by force. Now he rules her by making a fool out of her, that is, by making her superior. There is double benefit in ruling by making her superior. She is made doubly responsible. He makes woman superior to himself and brings her out of her home... provides an opportunity to work side by side with him.

The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.

I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.

Don't get too hung up on working with any one person, because it's like a game of checkers where dudes are hopping over one another all the time, shouting, "King me, motherfucker!" It's checkers, yo. But with a lot of money at stake.

One of the deans of the Graduate School of Management at UCLA had a sign on his door that read something like: "Warning: I might incorporate you to implement your own ideas." The sign itself, I was told, made several creative faculty members turn away with their suggestions while still at the door.

Analysis of the history of any successful organization will show that it owed its success to a team of people whose styles, behavior, and needs were different but who could work together. Although organizational success is usually attributed to one person, behind that person is a team that enabled him to perform well.

A colleague is not someone who agrees with you. A colleague is someone who disagrees with you but for whom you have respect.

I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.

SENTENCES OF THE KHAJAGAN GURGANI: The teacher and the taught together produce the teaching.

Cosas que parecen opuestas pueden de hecho estar trabajando juntas.

God provides the food, men provide the cooks.

Máximas de los Khajagan Gurgani: El enseñante y el enseñado producen juntos la enseñanza.

Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves.

Humans are not by nature solitary. They need to connect with other human beings to share dreams and fears, to lean on each other, to enhance each other.

You can leave behind you a good reputation. But the only thing of momentous value we leave behind is the next generation, our kids—all our kids. We all need to work together to give them the gift of a good start in life.

I believe that when you first take over a new outfit, start out trusting the people there unless you have real evidence not to. If you trust them, they will trust you, and those bonds will strengthen over time. They will work hard to make sure you do well. They will protect you and cover you. They will take care of you.

We have been married to the French for more than 230 years . . . and in marriage counseling with them for more than 230 years;

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.

Thank you, Mina Holmes. We would never have been able to do this without your assistance. - Lurelia

Progress together or do not progress at all.