Quotes About Collaboration

Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs.

Obviously I've got a great team of people within the company. You can't operate all by yourself. We have a good board of directors and a big bench, and they can make decisions if I'm not around.

As a team, we're all inside a bubble. Each of us only has so much room to operate. You have to carve out your space and recognize that because of someone else's needs, you might have to compromise a bit.

We always operated within a sense of community not just about the band. It's important to the way we define ourselves. It's the entire world in which we operate.

I don't ever have any bass in my monitors at all; I instead like to lock in with the guitar. I know the bass player has got to be locked in with the drummer, but to me, metal music is about the guitar and drums locking in and operating like a machine together. I played with my brother forever, and we were magically locked in together.

Being together on the field as a group, operating as a team, making important plays is a great thing.

Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests.

Yes, if I had it my way I would do all the shots myself - I used to do that when I was just a cameraman, an operator - but there's no way; you can't do that anymore.

Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.

I mean, I didn't feel, as part of Girls Aloud, that my opinion wasn't heard, or they went and did certain things and I had no say, or we had no say.

A team championship doesn't happen because three people score 10s, it happens because all the guys score well. In my opinion, everyone deserved 10s, we're all 10s on this team.

My opinion was that if we had a common enemy we should get together commonly.

Donnie Brasco was great, but the energy on the set made it kinda hard to get in there and have an opinion.

All I can tell you is, all of the good product you got from E-40 with all the good product you got from Too $hort - it's almost impossible for us to make a terrible album together. We're both opinionated, so I damn sure am not co-signing a song that I think is wack.

When you have 435 people who are opinionated... sometimes agreeing on things is difficult.

It doesn't help to just get women's opinions and then turn them over to an all-white-male engineering team.

I have a team who I respect immensely, so if they have opinions, I'm interested in hearing them.

In a side when you have 15 players there will always be times when there will be opinions that will be different. That is what is needed.

to marry into a cloakroom, and form an alliance with a parcel

All a publisher has to do is write cheques at intervals, while a lot of deserving and industrious chappies rally round and do the real work.

The reality remains that teamwork ultimately comes down to practicing a small set of principles over a long period of time. Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory, but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.

Marriage isn't a motion-picture close-up with slow fade-out on the embrace. It's a partnership, and what's the good of a partnership if your heart's not in it? It's like collaborating with a man you dislike....

Had I been alone, a casual glance in passing would have contented me, but for Ukridge the spectacle of somebody else working always had an irresistible fascination, and, gripping my arm, he steered me up to assist him in giving the toiler moral support. About two minutes after he had started to breathe earnestly on the man's neck, the latter, seeming to become aware that what was tickling his back hair was not some wandering June zephyr, looked up with a certain petulance.

We shall get into that series of 'Husbands and Wives Who Work Together.