Quotes About Collaboration

Working with somebody who has a more interesting life than I do - and getting to take on that life temporarily - is an endlessly interesting way to have the experience of writing memoir.

Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.

The songs came from a more solitary place and I hadn't played them with many people before recording. So I just added the layers of people who are in my life, and built up the songs.

What I've seen in my own life is that when I get something important done it's because of a lot of other people - some who get credit, some who don't.

Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to unite to make the fragments whole and the imitations genuine.

Actors rarely stay in touch with directors after they've filmed together. We go back to real life.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

For all the insomniacs of the world I want to build a new kind of machine For flying out of the body at night. This will win peace prizes, I know it, But I can't do it myself; I'm exhausted, I need help from the inventors.

whether in London's ornate arcades or Rio's fractious favelas, whether in the high-rises of Hong Kong or the dusty workspaces of Dharavi, our culture, our prosperity, and our freedom are all ultimately gifts of people living, working, and thinking together—the ultimate triumph of the city.

There is nothing that as a team we can't solve.

If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience.

People around the world today, growing cautious of war and fearful of its consequences, have turned increasingly to its moral equivalent in team sports.

Would the humanities care to colonize the sciences?

Men and women have strengths that complement each other.

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

Dialogues between two sides can be more constructive and resultful than the third party that has only its interests in its agenda

Everyone visits with each other for its purpose.

Partnership, in whatever way, restricts and limits your independence.

Veto mostly explicates and elucidates only the rift, for its authority and interests, not unity, collaboration, and support for the peace. It bluntly sprays poison to justice, equality, and stability, flaming all the laws and rules.

A fief, the elder Hosokawa had advised, was like a castle wall built of many rocks. A rock that could not be cut to fit in comfortably with the others would weaken the whole structure, even though the rock itself might be of admirable size and quality.

Man attains not by himself, nor woman by herself, but like the one-winged birds of the ancient legend, they must rise together.

Man does not attain the one-winged birds of our childhood's tale, they must rise together.

Wherever people gather for selfless ends, there is a vast augmentation of their individual capacities. Something wonderful, something momentous happens. An irresistible force begins to move, which, though we may not see it, is going to change our world.

I forged the thunderbolts and she fired them," is how [Elizabeth Cady] Stanton described their [hers and Susan B. Anthony's] work together.