Quotes About Collaboration

Leaders have to consider whether they have the right diverse perspectives at the table.

The military is a group of people that come together from different perspectives and backgrounds and places and get a job done because they have a mission.

When employees can bring their full selves to work, we get the full benefit of all their perspectives and experiences.

I think that's the beauty of the collaboration with a team. In the end, it never turns out how you imagine, it always is this amalgam of bringing in different perspectives.

'Udta Punjab' is a story of four different people merged together. There are four different stories and four different perspectives.

Howard Shore, who's an amazing film composer, told me once that it's 10 percent inspiration, 90 percent perspiration. So I think even within the creative process, like being a producer, you're really managing people and getting the best out of them.

A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.

When you're collaborating with somebody, there has to be a spirit of cooperation. There are a lot of times when you just can't persuade someone to write a certain type of song, either musically or lyrically.

I've managed to persuade Yoko Ono to put some of her work in my Penguin book!

I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.

Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.

I would love to bring the children from my foundation Sinfonia por el Peru to play with some of the best musicians in the world.

Someone at Hollywood Records said, 'Are you into Alanis Morissette?' I said 'Yeah, she sells 26 million albums, of course. It would be perverse if she works with me, but I don't think you can get her.' A week later they say she's coming down the studio.

I sent 'Hell or High Water' to Peter Berg, asking if he'd like to be involved.

Peter Baltes was the best bassist I ever played with.

When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch.

When I met Peter Weir, we did a movie called 'Master and Commander' together, and that's when I really started to understand the power of acting, the power of directing, finding the emotion in performance.

If I say often enough that I'm going to be in 'King Kong,' I'm hoping that Peter Jackson will take the hint.

I'd love to work with Lena Headey, Alfie Allen, Charles Dance. I'd love to work with Peter Dinklage.

Meeting Peter Dinklage was just great.

I would work with someone humble like that guy Peter Andre than Madonna.

In 'Secret Life of Pets,' it's a huge orchestra - really, really big.

If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.

The defensive phase is about the team, so it's about balance.