Best Collaborative Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“It is truly connected to your job as an actor, and it benefits the character and the entire film to build a collaborative environment.”

“People who come to Accenture want to be part of collaborative teams that are interesting and diverse. We think it's actually a real differentiator as we try to get people to come join us.”

“A commission and an original are two different things, and both have their virtues and vices. A commission is a bit more collaborative, in that you outline the story that you think should be told, and then you write it. And then, there are notes and you change it, in the conventional studio system.”

“Through Common Goal, we're creating a collaborative way for football to give back to society.”

“Two people making a beat is really like one person making a beat. But you have another person's brain. So what might sound good to you, they could flip it a different way. It's really a collaborative effort, really.”

“I just had this perception of stand up that was like you're alone on stage, where improv is very collaborative. That's also why I do like writing in writers' rooms because they're just very collaborative processes.”

“I have opinions, and I have feelings, and I have thoughts, and I think all of our creatives at Marvel, they've really respected me and allowed me to be part of this collaborative process.”

“In the 1990s music was a beautiful collaborative process between the composer, lyricist and director. They would exchange ideas and magic used to happen.”

“I want to be represented by people who are thoughtful, self-aware and collaborative. What would a system that elevated such people look like?”

“We were definitely new to the whole music thing. The first album was a real collaborative effort between us, the writers, and the A&R people at Columbia Records. We really worked to find out what our sound was.”

“I love working with Prada, I would do it all the time if I could. Working with them is like working on a film: it is very collaborative.”

“When you're writing about someone feeling so isolated and so lonely, when the making of it becomes collaborative, that's a special thing.”

“That's what I like about musical theater, is that it's very collaborative, not just with the writers, but with the director and the designers and the actors. Everybody's playing in the sandbox, and ideas are coming from everywhere.”

“Culture is a collaborative exercise, and I think everybody will do their bit to help it grow.”

“I think one of the great things that Jason does, that 'Ted Lasso' does: the way that Jason leads is by delegating. He's really good at going, 'Here's what I think, but what do you think? Great. Awesome. Let's work that in, that sounds great.' It's a real collaborative process with him.”

“You know, TV, by nature is a collaborative process.”

“I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.”

“Filmmaking is a very collaborative art. Unlike a painting that an artist paints sitting by himself, as a director, you have to work with a team.”

“Theater, especially musical theater, is a collaborative endeavor. The success of the venture is about the team.”

“I truly believe that cinema is a collaborative effort, and as long as I get to tell, and be part of, interesting stories and work with genuine people, I don't see any project as a 'risk.'”

“Obviously, any living musician born after 1960 has been touched by rock and roll. It's the music of our time, and it's 'in the air,' as Steve Reich would say. My experience of it is just really direct because I'm actually playing in a collaborative band.”

“Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.”

“My musician friends could always practice what they loved doing, but I can't go on a street corner and start reciting a monologue. Acting is very collaborative, and you always need other people with you - mainly an audience.”

“There's going to be a lot of collaborative social experiences with Rift and Touch.”

“When you're working in a collaborative storytelling medium, every step of the way, you're opening yourself up.”

“I love discussing the ins and outs of the collaborative nature of writing.”

“We can all agree that government can't solve the obesity crisis alone. It's an ongoing issue that will require a collaborative effort across private and public sectors if we want to see some long-term success.”

“For the most part, I really love being in a collaborative thing. And in a collaborative thing if you have a singer as good as Sean Smith or Eddie Vedder, you kind of think, well, why don't you just go ahead and let them sing? People seem to really like it.”

“I love being in a band. I love that collaborative spirit, although some would suggest that I don't get involved in the collaborative spirit, but it's not true.”

“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.”

“The work that I engage with, whether it's self-generated or collaborative, is uplifting and supporting historically marginalized and disenfranchised people, because when I uplift up those groups, I'm uplifting myself and supporting myself - it works out in that way.”

“I want to be so giving and collaborative, but my best songs were written on my own.”

“I've always been a very collaborative person, and I think 'Cop Car' and all the people I worked with who made it possible is a good example of that.”

“I think being collaborative is definitely more natural for people who are minorities in any sense - so people who aren't, like, white male artists - because we don't have the privilege to create art and work alone, usually.”

“I believe that the director is really the soul. It is a collaborative effort, but the director is the one who needs to have that vision. It could be a great script, but it starts from there. You need to have good material, at least, but if you don't have someone with vision, it's just words.”

“I really like writing television, and I like the collaborative writers room feeling. It's ten people, and you're together every day laughing your heads off.”

“I've always valued and encouraged teamwork, and that collaborative spirit of we versus I is core to Intuit's success. Innovation has been part of Intuit's DNA for nearly 30 years.”

“Fashion has a long interest in collaborative situations.”

“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.”

“Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.”

“I do paint, and I wanted to actually be a painter. Sometimes I'll whip out paints. It's tough to find the motivation, but it's also a solitary, lonely occupation. What I like about acting is that it is such a collaborative thing.”

“Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.”

“I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently. Most of it is because in my band, Incubus, it is very much a collaborative effort. I do what I do in the band, and everyone plays their respective parts, but in the end, we are sort of a democratic process.”

“GM is a highly collaborative organization; we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that we do.”

“For me, I love exploring ideas and throwing stuff against the wall and seeing what fits, and if I had a really nice collaborative team around me who could deal with the more day-to-day minutia, that would be fun. And directing sometime in the future and writing... yeah, I can see that all in my future. But I can be incredibly lazy.”

“In all the stuff I do, I really like it most when I'm being creative and collaborative, working with people who have my kind of energy around me.”

“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.”

“I think my confidence has developed over the years in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be.”

“I think writing in a group, even though it can be a challenge - you have to be on your toes all the time - is the way the best comedy gets written. It's very, very collaborative. A lot of comedy writers are definitely introverted nerds.”

“When I'm sick of myself, and when I don't know what to say as a solo artist, I can write a song for a movie. When I don't know where to turn musically, being in a band - Rilo Kiley or Jenny & Johnny - the collaborative nature is really exciting.”

“In my view, Russia has not been a particularly collaborative player on the world stage.”

“There is an extraordinary collaborative spirit when you are learning and growing.”

“One thing we know for sure is that the Web is a collaborative medium unlike any we've ever had before. We see people working together, playing together, interacting in social settings using these media. We hope that will emerge as the new tool for education.”

“I've done well because I'm lucky and I'm willing to be collaborative with the one thing you don't want to be collaborative with: your writing.”

“And 'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll' was a very transitional film for me in that I was one of the producers and you know, came up with the idea with the writer and the producer, as well. But, it was a very collaborative event. You know, I really love working in that way.”

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

“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.”

“Theater is such a collaborative art. Hollywood is a competitive sport.”

“We need to incorporate fashion into every element and institution, whether it be through designer-lecture series, photography exhibitions, or collaborative efforts between artists and designers.”

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

“Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus. Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big.”

“High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in.”

“Usually, when we write in The B-52s, it's quite a collaborative process. We really take hours - and sometimes days - jamming, and then we listen and listen to them and go, 'Oh, let's use this part, and then this part.' It's really like a collage.”

“Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with.”

“I like how collaborative and cult-like filmmaking is. It's really family-oriented, tribe-oriented.”

“Endings are really hard to do, and it's hard to do an ending where it's sort of collaborative with thousands and thousands of people, and to satisfy all those people is impossible.”

“Working on art, as opposed to being in a constant collaborative state, as in a band, is something that I've always done - to a smaller degree, but it always remained a part of my integral self.”

“There's a lot of women's organisations, but they're all working separately. If you get people together, as a collaborative voice, it's strong.”

“I would say I'm 90 percent collaborative in everything I do, and 10 percent of the time I just make the call.”

“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.”

“It is always interesting being on films sets - I have done it before with other actor friends - and I just find it fascinating. I just love that collaborative film family that develops around a project.”

“Before Google, I spent the summer building a program that would look at what websites you would go to and what websites other people would go to - and built a collaborative filtering program that helped you find related sites to look at.”

“It's highly collaborative, musical theater, so everybody has got to somehow get along.”

“I campaigned on being a collaborative leader.”

“Engineers have shown to embody a tremendous amount of leadership skills through the collaborative educational environment.”

“I believe in taking people away from their desks and making them feel collaborative and inspire one another instead of being siloed.”

“Making films is such a large, collaborative effort and there's so many people who are a part of it.”

“Collaborative decision-making is very poor in crises.”

“On 'Vikings,' nobody's got an ego. Michael Hirst is just so open and so collaborative.”

“Design firms and progressive companies rely on many of the same tools: rapid prototyping, observational research, creative thinking, collaborative work environments, and multidisciplinary teams.”

“I would like to believe that I am a collaborative actor. That's why I love all the directors I have worked with in recent times, as they are all collaborative directors. I think my constant desire is to keep bettering my own work. I don't get easily satisfied with my work; I am very critical of it. I learn from my mistakes.”

“I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.”

“I'm excited about how books work in a digital age. When you read a book, unlike a film, you are decoding symbols in order to 'see' the story, so it is collaborative in a way that a film can never be.”

“Comedy is so collaborative. You're going to come up with better jokes with people you like joking around with. It just makes sense.”

“Compared to film or television, theater is more interactive, collaborative.”

“There is something about me that is collaborative, that wants to get the best performance out of somebody else or to hear something that somebody else has done that's good and to try and make it great.”

“There's no one songwriter in the band. It's collaborative, and we all have different tastes.”

“That's something I like about drag - I get to do everything. Collaborative arts are hard for me because I don't really like to relinquish control.”

“If I can say so without sounding presumptuous, I want to model women being collaborative instead of competitive.”

“I will write a verse or a story and bring it into a songwriting session, because that's what's big in Nashville - the collaborative part of songwriting.”

“My sound is a mix between pop, hip-hop, and R&B. It's a good collaborative effort of all three.”

“There's a very collaborative, collective attitude. That's a very female principle. We try to nurture that aspect of the band.”

“I think women bring a different perspective and that we tend to be more collaborative in our approach. I served in the Iowa Senate back in the '90s, when there weren't a lot of us. At the time, I think there were five or six women, and two or three of them were Republicans and two or three were Democrats.”

“Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.”

“I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative.”

“What I've learned in my career as an actor is that you're only as good as your collaborators. The process is many things, but it is wholly collaborative, particularly with something like 'Westworld,' which is a 10-episode-per-season gig, and we're just now on the 7th episode.”

“The most significant pieces for me are the ones that come from my drapings. It's emotional because they are created by my hand and then become a collaborative process in the atelier.”

“You want to enjoy making a movie - it's a wonderful, collaborative thing.”

“We tend to see films as artifacts of one mind. The reality of it is, I think, when you come out here and start working, you have to learn pretty quickly that it's a very collaborative process.”

“The 5G world will be a collaborative ecosystem, and the role of what each of us will do in that remains to be thought through.”