Quotes About Collaboration

Jazz is an interesting music. It's one of the few forms of music where everyone that's performing the music has a creative stake in the music. In jazz, everyone's improvising, and everyone's creating at the same time.

I think it is going to be very difficult to be a company in silos. I think the game has changed. We won't define our success by looking at the competitors but at how satisfied are our customers, how engaged are our internal stakeholders, and how good is our product pipeline.

I look forward to working closely with the CDK Board, management team, and employees to enable CDK to meet its full potential to generate value for all of its stakeholders.

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

Asking for people's help - rather than directing it - is almost always the smart way of doing things, regardless of the stakes.

When you come to documentaries, the stakes are too low for it to be cutthroat. You're all doing it for the right reasons.

You can get stale writing with each other for a while.

I made a stamp with Destiny's Child. We made a stamp together, above anything. And making a stamp on my own, I'm very proud.

I am ready and prepared to work with the President, but I will not be a rubber stamp for any president.

I'd love to work with any director who has their own artistic vision, their own stamp, and who believes in that.

I had the house rhythm section at a club called the Sundown in Hartford. Stan Getz came up and played with us.

Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret.

I think we've always thought that it's important to have a positive relationships with local government rather than taking a confrontational kind of stance.

I think when you have the point guard guarding someone full court and just chasing the guy all around, always in the right spot, it just makes you want to get down in a stance and be his backup and have his help whenever he needs it. Or having the same energy that he has.

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

I've always believed that the director does whatever the hell he wants. That's what you sign on for as an actor - I can't stand it when you have actors who are trying to leverage directors into doing things they don't want to do.

To try and stand outside the marriage, I'd say we have complementary capabilities. I do the hustling and the business. I do more script reading. I handle contracts.

We need to stand up and become a united front against a common enemy. It's important for us to not be divided.

We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone.

A lot of times, working in stand up, you're by yourself, and so you just have to rely on yourself only... but I like working in an ensemble.

You can't manage by memo. You can't stand up there and just send out edicts. I think you just gotta really personalize your relationships.

My son assisted a few directors and my daughter does stand up acts with me.

I liked that improv and sketch comedy were collaborative, but you really depended on other people and a stage to perform. With stand-up comedy, I liked that you had no one else to blame and depend on.