Quotes About Collaboration

Dance has to look like the music. If you see music simply as an accompaniment, then you don't hear it. I occupy myself with how not to interfere with the music.

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

There is a common ground upon which all sincere votaries of truth may meet, exchanging with each other the language of Flamsteed's appeal to Newton, "The works of the Eternal Providence will be better understood through your labors and mine.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Without appreciation and respect for other people, true leadership becomes ineffective, if not impossible.

All trades, arts, and handiwork have gained by division of labor, namely, when, instead of one man doing everything, each confines himself to a certain kind of work distinct from others in the treatment it requires, so as to be able to perform it with greater facility and in the greatest perfection.

Meetings run best when there are clear rules or norms to follow. These are sometimes difficult to set at the start of the meeting. People may feel reluctant to speak up and suggest rules or there may be pressure to start discussing the agenda items.

A good working relationship with the doctor and health care team of the person being cared for is probably the single most important thing that caregivers need.

Weary of fire, weary of bombardment, and weary of siege, scattered groups of Chinese actually rushed out to welcome the Japanese invaders as they thundered into the city with their tanks, artillery, and trucks. Some people hung Japanese flags from their windows while others even cheered the Japanese columns as they marched through the south and west gates of the city.

The Solarians have given up something mankind has had for a million years; something worth more than atomic power, cities, agriculture, tools, fire, everything; because it's something that made everything possible (...) The tribe, sir. Cooperation between individuals.

A knotty puzzle may hold a scientist up for a century, when it may be that a colleague has the solution already and is not even aware of the puzzle that it might solve.

Pierre Curie, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one—Marie, the famous Madame Curie—and is the only great scientist in history who is consistently identified as the husband of someone else.

The Machine is only a tool after all, which can help humanity progress faster by taking some of the burdens of calculations and interpretations off its back. The task of the human brain remains what it has always been; that of discovering new data to be analyzed, and of devising new concepts to be tested.

sincere friendship through trade will be many times better than an insecure overlordship

I can promise you that women working together – linked, informed and educated – can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

The rural women taught me that courage is contagious and that there's strength in numbers; what you can't do on your own can be achieved together, the more the better.

Esas mujeres del campo me enseñaron que el coraje es contagioso y que la fuerza está en el número; lo que no se logra sola se consigue entre varias, y mientras más sean, mejor.

Los cronistas siempre olvidan mencionarlos, pero sin esas masas silenciosas de indios amigos, que seguían a los españoles en sus empresas y guerras, la conquista del Nuevo Mundo habría sido imposible.

Qui nessuno è superiore a te, improvvisiamo tutti

Estamos angustiadas por la situación de la humanidad y del planeta. Ahora es cuestión de ponernos de acuerdo para darle un remezón formidable al mundo.

Cómo surgieron de pronto tantos delatores, colaboradores, torturadores y asesinos? Tal vez estuvieron siempre allí y no supimos verlos.

We have got amazing filmmakers in New Zealand with amazing stories to tell, and I want to keep being a part of that.

One of the nice things about living in Silicon Valley is that I end up at all these conferences and things, and I get to listen in on the zeitgeist.

The thing about Led Zeppelin was that it was always four musicians at the top of their game, but they could play like a band.