Quotes About Collaboration

I prefer, and it turns out to be the truth, that I always have in my movies an ensemble of actors, but not just one individual doing the whole movie.

Teamwork is great for all, but result is greater for some.

When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.

He'd realized the importance of that, of making sure everybody was in on every decision and being on the same page aesthetically with him—and behind the sentiment of the song.

I love staying with people," says MacKaye. "I love doing the driving. I love having to load equipment. The experiences are things that a lot of people never have.

What we were doing wasn't about being really good musicians," Lewis says. "It always seemed to me it was about making a song. We're just making a song.

We felt real strongly about supporting the local scene," Miller says. "I'm not nationalistic, but if you're in the area, you should work where you are. You have to support that which is growing around you.

We" was a sprawling cooperative of fanzines, underground and college radio stations, local cable access shows, mom-and-pop record stores, independent distributors and record labels, tip sheets, nightclubs and alternative venues, booking agents, bands, and fans that had been thriving for more than a decade before the mainstream took notice.

They developed this influence and this clout and they shared it. It's a very inclusive movement.

There was constant communication between everyone.

Relationships are currency, something Sonic Youth had picked up on not only from the art world but from the camaraderie of the SST bands.

The bands of the I.P.U. had created their own movement simply by assiduously seeking each other out and pooling resources and information.

Every work of art is one half of a secret handshake.

But lately she had been starting to experience strong, inarticulate feelings of longing, of a desire to be with Joe all the time, to inhabit his life and allow him to inhabit hers, to engage with him in some kind of joint enterprise, in a collaboration that would be their lives.

But lately she had been starting to experience strong, inarticulate feelings of longing, of a desire to be with Joe all the time, to inhabit his life and allow him to inhabit hers, to engage with him in some kind of joint enterprise, in a collaboration that would be their lives. She didn't suppose they needed to get married to do that, and she knew that she certainly ought not to want to.

But lately she had been starting to experience strong, inarticulate feelings of longing, of a desire to be with Joe all the time, to inhabit his life and allow him to inhabit hers, to engage with him in some kind of joint enterprise, in a collaboration that would be their lives. She didn't suppose they needed to get married to do that, and she knew that she certainly ought not to want to.

Whenever I engage high school teachers in a discussion of collaboration, they generally view it as an elementary process. That is because they are confusing collaboration with cooperative learning. We all know the experience. Assign a group a project, expect all of them to do a percentage of all components, and grade them on the final product. This is not collaboration. Collaboration is about helping people work together to achieve an outcome that could not be achieved by an individual.

thanks to the many police officers who over the years have given me an insight into their jobs and lives. I also want to ackowledge Tom Mangold

investigator. And they were together that

And because you can stand on the shoulders of giants, you can accomplish something quickly.

The Japanese have a saying: fix the problem, not the blame. In American organizations it's all about who fucked up. Whose head will roll. In Japanese organizations it's about what's fucked up, and how to fix it. Nobody gets blamed. Their way is better.

In the end, it became clear that all scientists were participants in a participatory universe which did not allow anyone to be a mere observer.

the PLM is powerful and stable, precisely because it unites so many institutions of society.

great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.