Quotes About Collaboration

Equality and prosperity shouldn't be seen as enemies of each other, but as partners. One reinforces the other.

The E.U. is a common platform where we come together and agree to do certain things. But the E.U. is never going to take over the responsibility which governments have for prosperity and security of their people.

Our security and prosperity are inextricably linked.

We must always give preference to the collective. We have to play as Brazil. Nobody is a lone protagonist.

As as a coach you shouldn't take yourself too seriously and never forget that the main protagonists are the players. Your own influence is sometimes less than one believes or hopes for.

I'd like to build a way for people doing good work to connect, to learn from each other, protect each other, and then I want to get out of their way.

I'm going to go out and get everybody together and say I think we ought to protect this for generations to come. Now, let's get down to work and walk the land and talk about the conflicts and get everybody involved.

They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.

We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

Protecting our land, our air and our water is a very important thing that we can only do together.

I always try to develop a good relationship with the director on any film and make sure that we want the same things and we're talking about the same ideas, and that gives me great protection.

When you work in a creative environment, people get protective about their ideas. Sometimes it's justified; sometimes it's about ego.

In working with Nick Cannon, he's such a generous guy, a generous actor, and he was very protective.

When people don't like the film, I can take a bullet. I don't mind you talking about me, but I'm protective of my actors, because they bared their soul for me.

Back in high school, I had this folk protest band, and I used to write all the time. And then, when I got in The B-52s, we began to write collectively, collaboratively - most all of our songs are written by jamming together.

I do not lead the Hong Kong protests, because no one person leads the protests.

It is really impressive and makes us proud that in a lot of places in Indonesia, a church is close to a mosque, and even in many places, both Islamic and Christian communities cooperated to build a mosque or church.

I am so proud of what I've achieved personally, but without the lads around me, nothing would have been possible.

I'm proud of Jay Z's success and Kanye's success. Inside, I feel like I had something to do with their success... I don't have anything but positive things to say.

This is one of my lesser moments, and one I'm not proud to admit to, but there's always a time I feel the need to have control over the process and try to defend the song from the person I'm writing with. It never, ever helps and always causes problems.

When Ben and I first got married and we first had kids, I felt I needed to prove we could still do it and I could still work separately from Ben and I could still work with him. I just let go of all of that now. I said to him, 'For me, a little bit goes a long way.'

There are certain filmmakers I'd like to work with that I don't think would take a risk with me, because I could be distracting in their film. It'll take a couple films to prove to them that it's worth the risk.

A lot of people really didn't expect for me to have a record with Kendrick, but I proved them wrong. It's not easy to get Kendrick on a record, so it was a huge deal for me to have him featured on the song.

Right now, I am doing the reverse of molecular gastronomy. I'm working with scientists to find ingredients and produce that are proven to be good for you.