Quotes About Collaboration

One composed of many.

Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.

The teacher did say we can help one another. Cooperative learning it's called. That's where you borrow someone else's brain because yours isn't big enough.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.

web being constructed by the children in their constant exchange of ideas the moment I stopped talking and they resumed playing.

If the room were always like this there would be no need for our new rule. Everyone is occupied with individual projects directed toward a goal created by the teacher. No one is excluded; every contribution will be given equal attention and find equal expression in the margins of the Magpie story. No problems here. The rule is needed for all those other times, the bulk of the day, when public and private needs and obligations are in conflict.

Genuine mathematicians do not gang up, but the weak need gangs in order to survive.

strategic planning should be more about collective wisdom building than top-down or bottom-up planning.

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.

Divided responsibility means that nobody is responsible.

Management of a system, cooperation between components, not competition. Management of people.

Put everybody in the company to work to accomplish the transformation. The transformation is everybody's job.

A new president came, talked with the head of sales, design, manufacturing, consumer research, and so forth. Everybody was doing a superb job, and had been doing so for years. Nobody had any problems. Yet somehow or other the company was going down the tube. Why? The answer was simple. Each staff area was sub-optimizing its own work, but not working as a team for the company.

I could do a much better job (fewer mistakes) if I knew what the program is to be used for. The specifications don't tell me what I need to know (programmer).

Much of publishing (and any business) is a matter of making the right connection with the right person at the right time at the right place. You can't make that connection working alone in your office at your computer or curled up with your legal pad writing your story.

I have to thank Messrs. Macmillan, and the editors of Belgravia, All the Year Round, and Monthly Packet, for leave to quote from Patrick Kennedy's Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, and Miss Maclintock's articles respectively; Lady Wilde, for leave to give what I would from her Ancient Legends of Ireland (Ward & Downey); and Mr. Douglas Hyde, for his three unpublished stories

When truly brothers, men don't sing in unison, but in harmony.

Give everyone a chance to have a piece of the pie. If the pie's not big enough, make a bigger pie.

If both parties have a stake in the other, the chances of them killing each other are going to be reduced.

I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.

We know nothing about most the people around us, yet there is always a chance they could be hugely valuable to us

I think that artists have a better chance at making great art if they know as much about every different area in the industry as they can.