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

“I think films give us the possibility to see, within the destiny of a single individual, the destiny of a collective group.”

“I do movies because I trust the collective experience. Maybe this is the main reason why I'm doing a movie.”

“It is our collective duty to confront the past, recognize the legacy of slavery, and pay homage to those who suffered from slavery, the great American crime against humanity.”

“I try to melt into the collective.”

“Once we're ignored or dismissed long enough, conservatives seem to just shrug our collective shoulders and accept defeat. It's this type of passivity that has allowed progressives to dominate film and television, universities and large swaths of the mainstream news media.”

“There's nothing that compares to actually being in a room and having that sense of collective experience, feeling the music in your body and having all these people around you.”

“Yeah, I feel like every year there's some collective thought that podcasts just keep evolving and that podcasts are still just like the weird wild west of media.”

“All the teams that win a big trophy, it is thanks to the collective, when each one takes pleasure to share with the others. This is how it works.”

“You write a song; you know what you want it to sound like. With a band like ours, it's more about the collective. It's important everyone feels expressed and represented.”

“I personally feel like the end product is always better when you can make a collective. It's like a band. You can have a bunch of individual great musicians, but when you come together, there's a sound that it creates that you couldn't do on your own.”

“During the launch of the 'Ama Gaon, Ama Bikash' scheme, I directly spoke to women representatives from the interior villages of Sambalpur and Narayanpatna. From the way the women explained the issues pertaining to their villages and their collective needs, I understood that women empowerment has reached even the grassroots of the democratic setup.”

“Throughout the whole team, you have important players, but the main thing is the collective. It is the only way to get trophies.”

“I'm more than happy to represent my country. It is bigger than me and what I want to do individually. It is a collective thing.”

“As elected leaders, it is our collective responsibility to set standards of respect and elevate understanding between the communities we represent.”

“Government is not a person; it is hardly even a collective of people. Government is a system, and it can be a good system, or a bad system, but it is never more than that.”

“A party's success lies in collective effort.”

“As Britain prepares to leave the E.U., we need to become more efficient as an economy. We need everyone contributing to our collective prosperity, in every part of the country. We simply cannot afford to waste the potential of a generation because of mental ill-health.”

“Rich or poor, we all need organizations that can represent us; we all need modes of collective action when individual action does not yield justice.”

“If we collectively set our minds to improving technology of a particular type we can do that, and it takes some collective action, some support for research, or some provision of patent protection, or a mixture of the two, and some focussed energy.”

“With us, the people of India, rests the real power to decide our collective future.”

“The teams which embrace the socialist ideology rather than having superstars, are the teams that are successful. Or if there are superstars they don't perceive themselves to be that. That's why I use Messi as an example. As much as he's a superstar he respects his team-mates and their collective efforts.”

“Our plan for Passyunk Productions is to make an impact in the film & tv world by leveraging our collective resources, telling great stories and creating smart programming told from a unique perspective.”

“I really want to do roles that have some substance, and I hope writers give us that importance. I can't alone stand up and demand roles like that. It's a collective thing. Writers have to believe in heroines and understand that there's more to a woman than just her curves. It's not that they can't do it. They just choose not to.”

“My films are not really constructed films, as much as remembered films. I've got this desire to catch traces of memory, but it's not my personal memory. It's a shared, collective memory, it's bigger than me. And I think, not everyone, but some people feel that when they watch my films.”

“In fact, what I love about cinema is the real work itself, which is still a collective effort, all done together. I really like to provide jobs for many people, deal with ideas and personalities so different from mine, and to ask so many people to meet and interpret other lives.”

“Because he knows he has the talent to change games, you get the impression Neymar wants to be the one to do that something special. But he has to understand that it's not like that at international level. He might be the greatest player, but you have to think of the collective.”

“My film-making is the privilege of French cinema. I would have to do things totally differently elsewhere. But I think I could learn from that and have fun being part of a bigger collective.”

“Our collective military service is a special part of our family's story in America.”

“Football is a collective sport.”

“The ingrained image of black men being searched by the police feeds into the collective illusion that black men everywhere need to be policed more than others.”

“I think there is a collective unconsciousness, or some sort of consciousness, that you can tap into if you're open and brave enough to let everything go and be part of that.”

“Web is going to become very big... The format is different in terms of its storytelling pattern and its duration. Web audience enjoys watching stuff on the go, they prefer to watch it alone. It is isolated viewing while cinema is collective viewing.”

“Every player brings something from their own culture into the collective.”

“I focus a lot more on the collective than the individual.”

“Mars would seem, to me, to be the best place to focus our collective effort as a species... I think people would like to experience something sort of hopeful in terms of where we go next... as a species.”

“The power of Liverpool Football Club is the collective. We always do everything together; this is our power.”

“When we tour, there's always this unique quality to every town you visit... Touring, you get a sense of a collective identity for different cities. That's one of the things I love about my job.”

“The idea of somebody suffering is really painful to every human. In our collective language, we all too often see those who are suffering as a victim to be pitied, to be feared, and even sometimes to be despised. I want to redirect that narrative.”

“My mother and father were visionaries in Pittsburgh, part of that collective of people who were creative and active together, and I am a product of that community and those relationships.”

“Violence of all forms is wreaking havoc in communities across the country, disproportionately impacting communities of color and shaving half a million years of life off our collective lifespan. But it doesn't have to be this way.”

“Unfortunately, of course, guilt is an artifact of agricultural-age religion and is designed specifically to prevent humans from thinking and operating on a collective level.”

“Our interests are indeed common European interests, and the only way to serve them is by common means. That is why all Europeans, and all E.U. member states, have a collective responsibility to strengthen our Union.”

“Success is knowing that your contribution is what helps the collective.”

“Every woman that dies or loses her baby on a threadbare cot in the heart of Uganda, while her sisters on the other side of the world enjoy first-class care, is a threat to our collective humanity.”

“As an artist, I've always felt most comfortable outside of the art supply store. So domestic materials are the ones that most help inform what I'm trying to talk about and our familiarity as a whole - kind of the collective us, I guess.”

“Collective management will build companies - not top-down decision-making.”

“Teams are a collective expression.”

“In the West, people demonize Putin. They do not understand that there is a collective Putin, consisting of some millions of people who do not want to be humiliated by the West. There is a little piece of Putin in everyone.”

“We have a collective responsibility to do everything we can to make sure that everyone feels that the workplace is a safe and equal environment.”

“'Collective' sounds like communism, but we do work and live in a society where there is a collective well-being.”

“I've learned how to be a better performer on stage and interact with the fans, make it feel like a collective experience more than just me singing songs on a stage and feeling really detached.”

“I want to see a more collective style in how our party operates, in politics as a whole.”

“There's this tendency to think of the individual and the collective are somehow at odds or separate. But I think that's really false. We're all both. And when the individual suffers, the collective suffers, and vice versa.”

“Regardless of who is elected president in 2016, we all still live together. Each of us has a different role to play, but we all have to hold the collective space for movement-building together. It's the only way we move forward.”

“When you work with Mourinho, you have to know that the group, the collective is above the individual.”

“As little boys, my brother and I used to spend hours with my grandmother, asking her about the details of how she came to America. She could only give us a smattering of details, but they all found their way into our collective imagination, eventually becoming a part of our own cultural identity and connection to the past.”

“The NRA is a true grass-roots organization, and the collective power of its membership is simply unparalleled.”

“What we learned was that the collective glamour of a specialty store could sell a lot of merchandise.”

“Collective European Union action could mean no hiding places for evaders, no safe haven for tax avoiders, and no treasure islands for money launderers.”

“Russia would prefer to rebuild trust rather than allow it to further corrode. That's why, in July 2007, President Putin, in the spirit of strategic openness, proposed a truly collective effort at missile defense for Europe.”

“I like very human stories that venture into sci-fi or the supernatural or areas that I think occupy a lot of space in our collective memory for the films that we loved as children.”

“I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.”

“I should like to think that we'll find peace on this Earth at some point and come to a collective consciousness of compassion for each other, where we say, 'Enough! Let us live as one!'”

“What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest.”

“After Obama became president, I realized that black people could not have put him in the White House - it had to be a collective effort of everybody in the country.”

“In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don't really get freaked out. I mean certainly, you read about things people did to each other in the pursuit of some mystical or occult goal, and it's horrifying. But that's just human nature.”

“Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.”

“But let no one be under any doubt that the scale of the challenge that Europe faces in this emerging global economy is immense and the practical pace of our collective action to meet these challenge to date has just been too slow.”

“Didier was always a leader but a leader through the collective. He has always known how to gee his teammates up and help get the best out of them.”

“To me, the only way we'll see a collective change in this country is by listening to people who have experienced life in the margins of society, who have lived less privileged versions of my story, in systemic poverty and facing structural racism.”

“The market turns out to be just one special case of collective decision-making.”

“Global challenges require collective responses.”

“It's interesting - a lot of what you accomplish in your lifetime either as an individual or as a company is determined by other people. I mean, you can do interview after interview and defend a point of view, but more often than not, the collective kind of opinion will be the one viewed historically and taken as gospel.”

“In the future, I think it's pretty plausible that collective intelligence tools and skills will be important in order to be a part of global dialog, global business, and global creativity. People who know how to negotiate collective intelligence networks are going to be in a good position to contribute to global society.”

“I believe that in Europe, we have a collective leadership.”

“I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.”

“Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective.”

“In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.”

“Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.”

“I have a collective sense of suffering.”

“The collective strengthens the individual.”

“This fundraising is consuming us. It's impossible to overstate, I think, what it's doing to members and their ability to just focus on the job that they were elected to do. The collective concentration of the institution is being undermined every day by the need to fund-raise.”

“Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.”

“I think there's something really freeing about improv, that it's a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That's really exciting and really frustrating, because it's there and gone. There's an amazing interaction with the audience that happens because they are very much another scene partner.”

“The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society. Promote the universal principles of justice and freedom, and leave the societies elsewhere to find their model of democracy based on their collective psychology and cultural heritage.”

“The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die.”

“The challenge to our national economies and the collective economy of Europe will become - with the growth of China and the continuing productivity growth of the US - even more intense in the decades to come.”

“Film is a collective experience, as you know.”

“Sometimes it takes time to become part of the collective unconscious, just like 'Fanboys' did. Going into that movie, I said to myself that if you were a 'Star Wars' fan, you were going to love that movie. It's an homage to everything science-fiction, but especially 'Star Wars.'”

“Certain crimes cannot be prevented unless there is a daily collective work done diligently.”

“I choose to lead an eco-friendly life as a New Year resolution. Global Warming is a reality. It has to be collective effort.”

“How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one.”

“I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.”

“When we watch dance, the artists and the audience are part of a momentary collective experience that will never happen again.”

“If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.”

“Sonic Youth has always been the vehicle for my writing, you know, because it's a collective songwriting entity: we write our songs as a group.”

“We really ought to give ourselves a collective pat on the back for doing as well as we have in a universe of constant media change and mutation.”

“Honestly there's nothing soothing, nothing consoling like being part of a collective, dancing to music.”

“What you believe in the privacy of your thoughts and what you do in the privacy of your home or house of worship is your business. What you do in the public realm is our collective business.”

“Defense is always collective. You have to do it collectively.”