Quotes About Collaboration

The best leader does not ask people to serve him, but the common end. The best leader has not followers, but men and women working with him.

Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known.

It's not enough for women to speak out on the issue - for the message to be strong and consistent, women's voices must be backed up by men's.

The glass ceiling will go away when women help other women break through that ceiling.

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.

Men and women are like two feet; they can help each other get ahead.

Men and women have strengths that complement each other.

The last movie I did, I was very lucky: I got to work with probably the best actor of our era, Billy Bob Thornton. He's just incredible. I was like a sponge: I soaked up everything he had to say.

As an actor, I do not come with preconceived notions. I am like clay that can be moulded or like a sponge that can absorb things. I do what the director wants me to do.

Brizo has been my single biggest sponsor since I began as a designer. Brizo wanted to be involved in many different areas of design - they had already worked with several architects, and fashion was an area they were interested in moving into.

At the end of the day, when you get a sponsor, it's a working relationship. So anyone I get involved with, I want it to be a working relationship where I'm generally trying to help them and they're generally trying to help me.

I'm always looking for people on the other side of the aisle for any initiative I'm sponsoring - men and women - to move things forward.

I'm sponsored by Nike and stuff.

I genuinely only want to work with people that I agree with on certain things. There were many sponsors I didn't want to work with because I didn't agree with their messages that they wanted to use me to convey.

I love working with sponsors.

In Bellator, they don't attack you for your sponsors. They get you sponsors. They don't get mad at you for doing movies. They get you movies.

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

I like the spontaneity; I like to just get people together and hit 'record' so hopefully it has got a liveliness about it.

Making music with other people feeds spontaneity, and lends ideas to your solo work.

So the actual riffing came out of us just sitting there and doing it the way I think some people think we really did it, which is all spontaneously, and it really was.

There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right.

It is hard to get animals which normally pay little attention to each other to do things together. One can teach dolphins to jump simultaneously out of the water precisely because they show similar behavior spontaneously, but try to make two domestic cats jump together and you will fail.

Philosophy is a performance sport - you have to play it with somebody back and forth.