William Kempe Quotes

I love working with other people and bouncing ideas off them.

It's really lonely trying to build something by yourself. It's good to have thought partners to bounce ideas off of.

I surround myself, not with yes men, but people who have their own ideas and are on board with with I want to do.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'

Whether I am collaborating with different people, I like changing projects conceptually so I can grow.

I just love to collaborate with people who take my ideas real serious, and they don't put up walls around them.

One of the things that I think makes me successful is the way in which I collaborate with others. In my opinion, nothing great is ever the product of one mind. It's always a consequence of some sort of self-critical collaboration.

I like being in a collaborative and respectful environment. When you're in an environment spearheaded by ego and fear, it's the death of creativity.

That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.

I prefer to find craftspeople I can be colleagues with and who take an area of responsibility and run with it.

I always have to re-learn the important lesson that the work is always stronger when I listen and take input from others.

I don't like collaborating too much.

For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.

When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.

I love collaborating with different voices.

Without trust, the most essential element of innovation - conflict - becomes impossible.

I love collaborating with other really smart, incredible people.

I approach any collaboration I do differently.

I've learned how to trust someone else's ideas with mine.

That's what's so wonderful about collaborating: your idea can explode and become something else.

In a collaborator, I always look for someone who's going to push me a little bit.

You really have to try and find a way to communicate [in the Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp], to respect each other's opinions and ideas, to be able to fight for something you feel is better than somebody else's idea.

It all starts with a great idea and teamwork.

I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.