Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
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.
What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Creativity is not a solitary process. It happens within networks... when talented people get together, when idea systems and mentalities merge.
Collaboration is vital to sustain what we call profound or really deep change, because without it, organizations are just overwhelmed by the forces of the status quo.
There is a creative act involved by the receiver as well as by the sender and that makes for innovation. Both sides are equally important.
Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.
A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.
We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.
Good collaboration essentially boils down to personalities who work well together and are able to integrate each other's notes and ideas without killing each other.
A successful collaboration is all about trust and respect. If you show people trust they will perform better.
We're in this together, and if we united and we inter-culturally cooperated, then that might be the key to humanity's survival.
If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.
Frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be compassionate, be prepared for action.
Courage is freedom, and freedom is joy. Be fully who you are, letting the world get used to you - it will! Find a loving community of friends who support your ever-flowering growth, which is a lifetime proposition.
There is nothing antithetical in American history, culture, or traditions to teamwork. Teams were important in America's history - wagon trains conquered the West, men working together on the assembly line in American industry conquered the world, a successful national strategy and a lot of teamwork put an American on the moon first (and thus fare, last). But American mythology extols only the individual...In America, halls of fame exist for almost every conceivable activity, but nowhere do Americans raise monuments in praise of teamwork.
That's my mathematician who examines problems which I put before him and checks their validity. You see, I am not myself a good mathematician.
What you're always trying to achieve in a creative relationship is one that is egoless... ideas belong to the collective. If you can disassociate your own ego from your idea, then, almost always, everybody will arrive at the same decision as to what is best.
I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.
I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world.
I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!
I'm basically the idea person. I'm not physically involved in the production. I don't have the necessary abilities, so I go to the top people.
Finlay was the godfather of a problem that's rampant everywhere today. He called the people who made his work 'collaborators'... nowadays it's 'fabricators'... talented people who are grateful, desperate and thwarted. There's plenty of them.
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