Collaborative Quotes

Instead of focusing on their individual agendas, collaborative partnerships establish common goals. In order to address problems that lie beyond any single agency's exclusive purview, but which concern them all, partners agree to pool resources, jointly plan, implement, and evaluate new services and procedures, and delegate individual responsibility for the outcomes of their joint efforts.

As we go forward, those who lead will be the ones taking advantage of the creativity and productivity gains available by focusing on the human, collaborative dimension, while laggards will suffer in the face of unrelenting change.

Working on a play is a vibrant and collaborative business.

Everyone from the choreographer to the music director to the director to the writers work together toward the same goal, and everyone chimes in on everything.

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra.

It's a collaborative adventure.

There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor.

Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.

You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work.

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.

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting.

I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

People tend to work in teams, in a collaborative way, in an informal network.

If you create an environment like that, it's much more effective and much more efficient.

GM is a highly collaborative organization;

we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that we do.

We stayed there 24 hours a day. We lived and ate and slept that movie. We were enthusiastic, not just because of the movie, but because we had such a great collaborative team. We had a really good time. It was very much a family.

In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.

I have long believed these types of collaborative agreements are a far better approach to federal land management than the contentious battles that too often sidetrack proper resource management.

The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.

Tim also has enough confidence so that it always looks like a Tim Burton film, but it really is collaborative. You're allowed to do it your way but of course he's always going to choose his way.

I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling.

The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.

Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.

You know, it takes a while to get used to - it's a whole group of people with all these ideas and after you sort of navigate your way through the first few episodes it becomes collaborative and creative.

Musicals are very collaborative. Unless you find somebody who wants to do something with you and has equal commitment, it's not going to work.

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

I don't want people at my shows to come out and say, 'I just saw a cool show.

' I want them to say, 'I had fun at the show.' I want it to be a collaborative thing and be part of the audience and have them be part of me. I try to interact with everyone there and have them be equal to me because they are.

But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

I like stand-up. But I'd also like a family and house and a yard. I want to work with a lot of people, have colleagues; and on good film sets, there's people there that work with the same people for years and years. I love that collaborative spirit in that medium. Comedy is a lot more solitary.

Further, science is a collaborative effort.

My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort.