Kevin Clifton Quotes

Working with my husband, I thought we would be at each other. As close as we are, our styles are so different. But it didn't happen - we were surprised.

It's great to work with friends. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't, but everybody goes into it knowing that. Like, 'We might be really good friends, but we might be terrible collaborators.'

When you say sorry it creates a better working relationship.

I'd love to collaborate with a writer, but I'm such a control freak, it might be difficult.

My brother and I have too good a relationship to spoil it by working together.

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'

In the German football team players from different clubs need to get on with each other both on and off the pitch. In the grand coalition Christian Democrats and Social Democrats sit in the same boat and need to pull in the same direction.

A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.

Communication between band-mates is imperative. Communication is the key to any healthy relationship. If I need to be checked, I expect to hear it put in plain words what my faults are, and give my band-mates the ultimate consideration by shutting up and listening, then acting on the advice given. Same goes for anyone else in any band.

You cannot work with men who won't work with you.

During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.

We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.

You have to work with people you really love.

I play well with everybody.

I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone.

In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite.

if we stop talking at one another, and start talking with one another, we can get a lot done.

A huge amount of negotiations and diplomacy has nothing to do with bartering or arguing but is just trying to get everyone [doing the negotiating] on the same page. It takes yours, days, even weeks sometimes.

Soundgarden was incredibly democratic, and I was really proud of that. I felt like we got along better than most bands we toured with and most people we knew. And at the same time, when you're that democratic and concerned with each other's opinions, you're always concerned with what the other people think.

What I've learned - after working for, I guess, some time now - is when you're approaching a relationship like that, like, any working relationship, it's good to be open. To know that someone might have a different way of doing things and listen to them. And hopefully, you come to a common understanding.

I've never thought it was a good idea to act back-to-back.

When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.

I understand from experience that unity is easy to call for, but it takes the right kind of leadership to achieve.

Heck, nobody gets along perfectly. But what we have is respect for one another. We have a system where one guy can veto anything.