Collaboration Quotes - Page 5

• As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.

  Amy Poehler

  Inspirational, Change, Ideas

  Harvard University Class Day Commencement Address, delivered 26 May 2011

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• There are a lot of people whove been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.

  Nat Friedman

  People, Machines, Use

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• 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

  Mistake, Cities, Looks

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• I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.

  Joe Pantoliano

  Thinking, Apples, Effort

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. March 31, 2001.

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• 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

  Balance, Band, Gains

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• I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity.

  Helmut Jahn

  Creativity, Space, Office

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• The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Innovation, Mind, Lightning

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• 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

  Real, Character, Personality

  Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• Every sin is the result of collaboration.

  Stephen Crane

  Sin, Results

  Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “The Classic American Short Story MEGAPACK ® (Volume 1): 34 of the Greatest Stories Ever Written”, p.841, Wildside Press LLC

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• As always in a musical collaboration: One has to like each other. As simple as that.

  Klaus Schulze

  Simple, Musical

  Interview by Jason Gross, www.furious.com. May 1997.

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• Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration.

  Philip Greenspun

  Pages, Saved

  "Interactive Web sites to thrive" by Nancy Weil, www.cnn.com. February 9, 2000.

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• Musicals are — particularly musicals — plays also, but musicals particularly are… the last collaborator is your audience, and so you’ve got to wait ’til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Play, Waiting, Lasts

  "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• 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

  Nature, Real, Trying

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• There comes a point with any collaboration like that where you start having other interests creatively. I was moving in one direction musically, and as a guitar player, Mark wanted to move in another direction. That was essentially the reason we broke up.

  Scott Stapp

  Moving, Player, One Direction

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• I'd love to work on a script in collaboration.

  Matthew McGrory

  Scripts

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• As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I can't say that any of my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me.

  Robert Sheckley

  Heart, Ideas, People

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• I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine.

  Steven Levy

  Beautiful, Thinking, Ideas

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  It's a simple idea: We all do better when we work together and invest in our future.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Simple, Ideas, Together

  "The New Populism Is A Fight For America’s Values". ourfuture.org. May 22, 2014.

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• Life is a collaboration, it's not a solo act.

  Tim Gunn

  Life Is, Solo

  "Tim Gunn on ‘Project Runway,’ New Book, Current Fashion". Interview with Patrick McDonald, www.hollywoodchicago.com. October 26, 2010.

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• Collaboration always wins over competition... and is more fun, too.

  Silvio Micali

  Fun, Winning, Competition

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• The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons.

  Desmond Tutu

  Change, Law, Fundamentals

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• No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

  Althea Gibson

  Motivational, Teamwork, Teacher

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• Every collaboration helps you grow.

  Brian Eno

  Helping, Grows

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• A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

  Robert Reich

  Leadership, Teamwork, Business

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• A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren't echo chambers.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Motivation, Inspiration, Thinking

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