Quotes About Collaboration

The adults in the room have to be skilled and literate by those 21st-century standards the NCTE is touting. And they have to exhibit the dispositions that will sustain their learning: persistence, empathy, passion, sharing, collaboration, creativity, and curiosity.

We have to stop delivering the curriculum to kids. We have to start discovering it with them." I

at least half of the time they spend on schoolwork must be on stuff that can't end up in the Friday Folder? That the reason they're doing their schoolwork isn't just for a grade or for it to be pinned up in the hallway? It should be because their work is something they create on their own, or with others, that has real value in the real world.

A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.

Oh, dear--did I forget to mention that you can, indeed, have it all, but you need a lot of help!

If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?

True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.

restrain the natural impulse in times of ambiguity and disorganization to push prematurely for certainty and closure. It is tempting to rally around, to have "everyone pulling together," in the neutral zone, but be careful that you don't unwittingly squeeze out dissent or other ways of thinking.

Giving people a part brings their firsthand knowledge to bear on solving problems. Joint decisions are not necessarily better than unilateral ones, but including people makes their knowledge available to the decision-maker, whoever that may be. 4.?The knowledge thus provided is more than the facts about the problem—it also includes the facts about the self-interest of the various parties affected by the situation.

Finally, everyone who plays a part is, tacitly at least, implicated in the outcome.

Part You can give each person a part to play in both the plan and the outcome. People need a tangible way to contribute and participate.

I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.

Making or writing a movie, to me, is like building a watch because a watch is so small and you only can fit so many things inside it that all the pieces really do need to work together.

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.

Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting.

That a society of free men, co-operating under contract, is by far the strongest society which has ever yet existed; that

The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think 'we're all in this together' is a better philosophy than 'you're on your own.'

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you will have to win their hearts to have them work with you.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Surely part of the moral meaning of representative government is that the representatives from all parts of a vast nation coming together in a great mosaic not only represent the interests and visions of their respective localities but also then learn from each other, affect each other, reason together, diminish their respective provincialisms, and shape something nearer to the common good.

Dow Chemical has experimented with this concept in Europe, and DuPont is taking up this idea vigorously.