Quotes About Collaboration

Our fellow players are sometimes occupying the spaces I want to play in. And when I see that, it makes it difficult for me to come to those spaces as well. So that forces me to adjust my runs based on the position of my fellow players. And unfortunately, they're often playing in my zones. I think that's a shame.

For me, great jazz records really feel like everyone in the room is playing together in a zone - and all the musicians are completely in sync with each other.

Being surrounded by diverse points of view pushes us beyond our comfort zones. And when people and teams bring multiple perspectives and experiences to the table, the discussions are deeper, the decision-making process is better, and the solutions are stronger.

Teamwork is very important. A music label who has that kind of knowledge is very, very important for the artist to grow on that level. Otherwise, all the artists get into that zone of doing things themselves, sometimes the song works, sometimes it doesn't.

I've worked with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years, and we have this magnificent photographer, Tad Motoyama. He takes these wonderful, wonderful animal pictures. All through the years he's given me copies of these pictures. Well, I have all these gorgeous ones, so I said, 'Tad, I want to do a book with your picture on one side.'

When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.

Behind an able man there are always other able men.

Cooperation is doing with a smile what you have to do anyhow.

Competition is about passion for perfection, and passion for other people who join in this impossible quest.

Working in the theatre has a lot in common with unemployment.

Many plays, certainly mine, are like blank cheques. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

You need three things in the theatre - the play, the actors and the audience and each must give something.

If you give audiences a chance they'll do half your acting for you.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio.

From a fallen tree, all make kindling.

America is a tune. It must be sung together.

No house should ever be on a hill, or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together, each the happier for the other.

Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing, but in a different way. It's no good being an illustrator who is saying a lot that is on his or her mind, if it has nothing to do with the text. . . the artist must override the story, but he must also override his own ego for the sake of the story.

It takes two to make a bargain.

The story of Canada is that if one meeting fails, you have another meeting.

Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital.

The big unions served a noble purpose once, and bless them for it. Now they're part of the problem and must give way if America is to move and to participate in management and achieve reasonable productivity.

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.