Quotes About Collaboration

I gravitated to economics because I'm interested in how people coordinate and collaborate with each other. Economics studies all the ways people get along with each other.

I choose optimism. I hope to be a catalyst not only by providing financial resources but also by fostering a sense of possibility: encouraging top experts to collaborate across disciplines, challenge conventional thinking, and figure out ways to overcome some of the world's hardest problems.

When you're part of an ensemble and share the screen with so many people, you become close to them because you're hanging out all the time. Obviously you have your ups and downs, but that kind of brings you closer in many ways.

I felt like for what I needed, Bad Boy got me... they got me covered. Especially Puff, man. He's going to be the first billionaire rap entertainer. At the end of the day, they need me. Other artists-labels don't need me, but Bad Boy and Puff needs me. And I need them. It goes both ways.

I hate to say there are female and male ways of dealing with power, because I think each of us has a male and a female part. But based on my own experience, women will tend to be inclusive, to reach out more, to care a little more.

Baseball is all about relationships, and in some ways, what know you and who knows you.

One of the things that the Grateful Dead did, way back when, was we spent a lot of time just turning each other on to music. If somebody was listening to something that really caught their ear, they'd make sure that everybody else in the band heard it, and that came home for us in innumerable ways.

It ain't just one guy, it's a team game, and I'll get myself better, I'll keep working on my technique and trying to find ways to free myself and keep making plays.

One of the things that's important for anybody adapting source material that is primarily a male buddy picture is to find ways to latch on to strong female characters in the piece and bring them to the forefront and celebrate their point of view alongside the men; otherwise, it becomes a sausage party, and it's a singular point of view.

I think it's counterproductive in many ways to pretend to know things you don't. You surround yourself with people who are the real experts.

We cannot turn our backs on Europe. We are part of Europe.

We cannot be mere consumers of good governance, we must be participants; we must be co-creators.

We will not only use the machines for their intelligence, we will also collaborate with them in ways that we cannot even imagine.

We cannot ensure equal access or build upon our diverse strengths by sitting at our desks.

We cannot, any of us, do all the things of which mankind stand in need; we must have fellow-labourers.

If we're unified, there's nothing we cannot do.

In seeking to counter challenges such as terrorist threats, hostile state activity, or nuclear proliferation, we cannot work in isolation.

We cannot even predict what kinds of emergent properties would appear when animals begin interacting as part of a brain-net. In theory, you could imagine that a combination of brains could provide solutions that individual brains cannot achieve by themselves.

We think that without cooperation with the Russians, we cannot achieve our goals.

We cannot agree on everything but we must agree on the framework.

We dream of nation-building. We cannot achieve this by fomenting social divisions.

We cannot take responsibility for every goal we concede, we all need to do our part across the field to ensure we win as a team.

Our soccer has always been weak in team-work. Iranians have been the best in the world individually, but as a team we are one step behind.

Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.