David Brooks Quotes

When we have a brilliant idea, instead of making others think it is ours, why not let them cook and stir the idea themselves.

You can get really far by putting your ideas out there and letting other people build on them.

If I collaborate with people, ideas...they take interesting turns and twists, and I'm excited for that and that process and excited to see what we come up with.

Because when you work with a different team, the expectations are different and then you deliver in a very different way. You look back at it and you're proud of yourself. And when the same people come in and you do the same thing, it's boring. You could re-envision it again and again but when the new chemistry of ideas comes in, something happens as a team.

Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.

I just really enjoy the process of working with other talented, creative people. There's great power in bringing diverse points of view together. It can be incredibly stimulating.

Sometimes other people have better ideas.

I believe that if you really have a strong idea, you can say, "What do you think? Let's see how my idea plays off yours."

It's easier to be creative if you've got other people to play with.

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

For me, collaborating is a marriage of the minds. It's two or more people coming together and making an idea come alive. Using their own creative knowledge or creative spirit to make the best version of an idea. To inspire an idea and to challenge it to be better than just one person's vision for it.

The studio's a collaborative environment. I just try to let people bring their own ideas to the songs and see what happens.

I love being around people that contribute. It doesn't matter where the good idea comes from. A good idea is a good idea.

Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it, it's fed. That is why beholding someone else's creative word, images, idea, fills us up, and inspires us to our own creative work. A single creative act has the potential to feed a continent. One creative act can cause a torrent to break through stone.

I think when people are jumping on top of each other's ideas, it elevates it a lot more than me going into the studio and working on something all by myself for a while.

It's been really exciting to work on a collaborative, creative team where we got to bounce ideas back and forth and figure out the best one.

Magicians are typically introverted; they don't tend to work with others, but I work with software programmers, composers, designers, so it's a very diverse group and the result is always more interesting than something I could have done by myself.

But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.

At Nokia, we have an internal market for ideas. There could be someone in Nokia who wants research, and they will come to us.

I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative.

You have a lot of ideas …. I want them so I can test them.

I think it's the essence of any film and any stage production - any work where you do work with other people - of course collaboration is hugely important. One does, for awhile, become family.

I personally believe that a critical part to innovation is that exchange of ideas so when you say, 'Here's my idea,' someone else at the next table, who is in a different party, will go, 'Oh, these guys are trying that,' so that comes.

You don't realize how beautiful an idea is until you do it with other people. There's this really shimmery, awesome thing when you start finishing a song - where the song just starts writing itself.

I'm a builder. I build ideas and give them to the people, and they receive them in such a wonderful way.