Quotes About Collaboration

El Bulli was created by 2,000 people that passed through it. And we didn't know that something big was happening. It was like a game in a way. You didn't really know how it was going to end up, and people who would leave, they would take a piece of it with them, but they would leave another piece behind.

We'll work with any designer producing something linked to gastronomy. So a chair for the dining area, a van to move food around. Anything that's connected to the gastronomic process.

elBulli isn't me. elBulli is the people who have eaten there, the people that have passed through the kitchen, and the people that have written about it. Every person has inserted their little bit of sand, their way of understanding the world, in that place so that it could exist. So they're not disciples or sons -- if they are anything, they're brothers.

A chef is a chef, a cook is a cook; a lorry driver is a lorry driver and a designer is a designer. I've never heard anyone say that Philippe Starck is a chef. The important thing is dialogue. If I said to Norman Foster that he was a chef he'd say "No", but he might have a dialogue with chefs. People have said to me for many years that I'm not a chef and that I'm an artist instead, but I always say, "No, I'm a chef." I just have dialogues with designers.

we discovered that some great minds have the same passions, and now look where we are

The more people that meet each other, the better it is for all of them. ("The Gift Of God").

To be a fellow worker with God is the highest aspiration of which we can conceive man capable.

Many people, other than the authors, contribute to the making of a book, from the first person who had the bright idea of alphabetic writing through the inventor of movable type to the lumberjacks who felled the trees that were pulped for its printing. It is not customary to acknowledge the trees themselves, though their commitment is total.

In sports, teams win and individuals don't.

We all do everything, share the work--there's no room around here for a star, for someone to think she's above the others. You're expected to pitch in on whatever needs doing. Nothing is beneath your dignity. But on the other hand, nothing is beyond your reach.

ayuda de los demás es necesaria para llevar a cabo todos los grandes proyectos.

Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.

When you actually like each other, it translates to the music.

Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.

I'm playing with Bonnie Raitt. I don't have to sing it. I just have to play it. That's cool.

So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

Studios! You can't make picture with 'em, you can't make pictures without 'em.

It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.

I would love to work with Paolo Nutini because he is so soulful and an amazing songwriter.

There's no such thing as a superhero, but together we can world in a new direction.

I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency.

In addition to having the right people on board, you need to keep the bus in good running condition. That may seem obvious, but you'd be surprised how many companies with wonderful intentions trip themselves up by having poor internal communications, or bad coordination between departments, or inadequate follow-through on decisions, or any of a thousand other fundamental management issues that can negate all the positive initiatives those companies undertake.

All those three-step things really do work," said Amy Emberling, a managing partner at Zingerman's Bakehouse, "but they also gave us a language we could use to talk to each other. Everyone in the different businesses had the same vocabulary, which helped create the culture in the community as a whole.