Having Fun: Collaboration Quotes
25 June 2009 Tweet As always in a musical collaboration: One has to like each other. As simple as that. Klaus Schulze
Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work: If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up! Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken. King Solomon
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up. Oliver Wendell Holmes
When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion. Ethiopian Proverb
The reward of a successful collaboration is a thing that cannot be produced by either of the parties working alone. It is akin to the benefits of sex with a partner, as opposed to masturbation. The latter is fun, but you show me anyone who has gotten a baby from playing with him or herself, and I'll show you an ugly baby, with just a whole bunch of knuckles. Harlan Ellison
Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration. Mike Rutherford
The secret is to gang up on the problem, rather than each other. Thomas Stallkamp
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. George Bernard Shaw
People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them. Dr. Allan Fromme
With collaborations you never follow the same palette. Robin Rimbaud
But things can happen in a band, or any type of collaboration, that would not otherwise happen. Jim Coleman
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. Vince Lombardi
Gettin’ good players is easy. Gettin’ ‘em to play together is the hard part. Casey Stengel
Collaboration is no longer painful - or precious. Vince Clarke
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. H.E. Luccock
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. Andrew Carnegie
Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration. Philip Greenspun
Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success. Author Unknown
If I could solve all the problems myself, I would. Thomas Edison
Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it's different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He's very quick. Brian Eno
Teamwork is so important that is it virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it. Brian Tracy
Every sin is the result of a collaboration. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. Helen Keller
Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition. Freeman Thomas
No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings. William Blake
I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions. Ian Hamilton Finlay
A team will always appreciate a great individual if he’s willing to sacrifice for the group. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together. Fred Saberhagen
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision; the ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. Andrew Carnegie
I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist. Jacques Ibert
Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together. Vesta M. Kelly
I enjoy being given a certain amount of freedom in order to interpret or to come up with stuff, but I do enjoy collaboration. I seek and thrive on projects where I am going to learn from the people I'm working with. William Kempe
Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one. Andrew Carnegie
I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was. Bill Murray
Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration. Stephen Sondheim
… 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration. Yahoo Serious
The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden. Bruce Jackson
I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their presence or their own personality that make a character, that exaggerates some qualities and suppresses other qualities. It's always a real collaboration for me. Jim Jarmusch
They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build. Michael Tilson Thomas
The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration. Tim O'Reilly
Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved. Mattie Stepanek
Politeness is the poison of Collaboration. Edwin Land
The one great thing about a continuing collaboration is that they know you. And if you're really lucky, they really believe in you and think that your talent has some unending bounds to it. Mark Ruffalo
It is not only one person's work, it's really a partnership and collaboration during all these years. Christo
The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration is well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of. Gary Lucas
The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community. Kenneth G. Wilson
I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this. Andrew Lloyd Webber
I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better. Tony Goldwyn
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