Collaboration quotes
273 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off."
"We will surely get to our destination if we join hands."
"While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."
"Synergy: The combined effect of individuals in collaboration that exceeds the sum of their individual effects."
"The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation."
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"Everyone needs help from everyone."
"The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons."
"I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world."
"Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders."
"It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part."
"I'm always open to discussing collaborations."
"Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one."
"Creativity takes a hit when people in a work group compete instead of collaborate."
"For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were quite other than himself—and then trying to grasp it. But a third response is possible. Not withdrawal, not stewardship on the hypothesis of a future reward, but the fullest collaboration with the world as a harmonious system of contained conflicts—based on the realization that the only real "I" is the whole endless process."
"I'm not a huge fan of covers in general, but collaborations always make them more fun - they're sort of neutral territory."
"Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow."
"This is a collaboration between a complex analyst, a dynamical system expert, and an arithmetical algebraic geometer. It sounds like a joke, a complex analyst, a dynamical system expert, and an arithmetical algebraic geometer walk into a bar."
"I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively."
"Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really."
"If I could solve all the problems myself, I would."
"I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future. I'm a big fan of Common. I'm a big fan of Scarface; I'm a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to... well, there are a lot of people's music that I respect. I don't know who I will collaborate with, but there's a great chance of something happening."
"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."
"Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar."
"Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike."
"Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?"
