Collaborating Quotes

• In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

  Charles Darwin

  Teamwork, Creativity, Knowledge

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.

  Ben Folds

  Real, Numbers, Pressure

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Inspirational, Strength, Teamwork

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• The acting experience and the collaborating and creating the world, working on the piece, they're the same joys.

  Keanu Reeves

  Creating, Joy, Acting

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• As the workplace becomes more specialized, from offices to medical centers to factories, teams of people must accomplish their work by collaborating with each other. In my work in filmmaking, we need talented individuals with technical skills, but their abilities to communicate and work with others are just as valuable.

  George Lucas

  Team, Skills, People

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• How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance amid surprises, of collaborating with chance, of recognizing that there are some essential mysteries in the world and thereby a limit to calculation, to plan, to control. To calculate on the unforeseen is perhaps exactly the paradoxical operation that life most requires of us.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Art, Balance, World

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• I'm no good at anything but comedy, which I think I'm good at. I'm absolutely no good at networking; I'm terrible at acting; I'm terrible at dealing with executives; I'm terrible at collaborating. And I say whatever I want to say. But I think I'm good enough at comedy that I can survive. And I don't really have an ambition for money.

  Norm MacDonald

  Ambition, Thinking, Acting

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• That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.

  Noah Baumbach

  Nice, Nice Things, Conversation

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• Ive always been very comfortable in a set environment. All the collaborating going on, seeing how actors work - it all excites me.

  Gia Coppola

  Actors, Environment, Working It

  "Gia Coppola's suburban fantasy". Interview with Colleen Nika, www.dazeddigital.com. October 17, 2014.

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• Of course, all people have their own reasons for believing what they do about gender. In my case, in over two decades of collaborating with men and women in music - conductors or otherwise - I have seen no distinction.

  Michael Hersch

  Believe, Men, Two

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. April 14, 2014.

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• What I love about collaborating is that you're working with other minds that work differently to yours.

  Lauren Beukes

  Mind, Working With Others

  "Lauren Beukes takes Rapunzel to Japan in ‘Fairest: The Hidden Kingdom’". Interview with Blake Hennon, herocomplex.latimes.com. July 25, 2013.

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• Every director is different. One of the great things about getting to work with so many directors in one TV series is collaborating with different artistic visions and voices. And they all have something to offer and making the story better and bringing their vision to what you see in the frame.

  Beau Willimon

  Voice, Vision, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• Hamas thinks they can kill the will of people by intimidation. Most of those who are killed in the Gaza Strip for the suspicion of collaborating with Israel, have nothing to do with Israel.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  Thinking, Israel, Gaza Strip

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• [Mikhail] Saakashvili will use all legal and illegal means possible to remain in power. People are being threatened to prevent them from collaborating with the opposition. At the same time, he is terrorizing the business world, which prevents the opposition from gaining any funding.

  Irakli Okruashvili

  Mean, People, Use

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I like collaborating, but I felt I should do my first single by myself so people don't think I'm leaning on other artists to be a success.

  Missy Elliot

  Artist, Thinking, People

  "New Again: Missy Elliott". Interview with Michael Musto, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2014.

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• I love collaborating outside of my space.

  Steve Aoki

  Love, Space, My Space

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• Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counselling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, 'How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?' and avoid 'How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?'

  James Thurber

  Writing, Editing, Editors

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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• Designing is always on the mind of a designer, and as I was saying it's a sort of digestive process, so I usually keep it to myself unless I'm collaborating with someone because explaining all the things that are going on in your head can be quite exhausting, especially in the early stages of a project.

  Christian Louboutin

  Design, Mind, Projects

  "interview with shoe designer christian louboutin". Designboom magazine Interview, www.designboom.com. May 21, 2014.

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• Any artist that's as serious about making music as I am, I'm cool with that. But if you tellin' me, "Man, send me a verse and I'ma send you a verse." No. That's not collaborating. We don't know each other and I'm serous about this music.

  Kevin Gates

  Artist, Men, Serious

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• I have a love/hate relationship with the internet. It's obviously the central tool of how I work, and how I keep in touch with all the writers and then producers that I'm collaborating with. Skype saves my life, you know.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Hate, Tools, Skype

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I enjoy collaborating with all of the directors I have worked with. I love collaborating with creative people on interesting projects.

  Lior Ron

  People, Interesting, Creative

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• I was writing music when we finished the last Walkmen record, Heaven, and a few of these songs may have even been started before Heaven was done. With The Walkmen we all wrote a lot of stuff alone, but then we'd start collaborating with each other.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Song, Writing, Heaven

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When we got to the step when we'd normally start collaborating, we started having these talks about how it was not worth getting together. Getting together just didn't feel very inspired, and doing it alone did.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Together, Steps, Inspired

  "Hamilton Leithauser Gets By With a Little Help". Interview with Aly Comingore, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2014.

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• I love fashion, and I love clothes, and so collaborating and putting pieces together is a passion that I have.

  Nina Dobrev

  Fashion, Passion, Clothes

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• I think collaborating with a DJ could be interesting musically and it's something that I'd like to get into down the road, but I think on the live show tip I'm sticking to my guns for right now.

  Girl Talk

  Thinking, Gun, Interesting

  Source: uproxx.com

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