Clark Gregg Quotes

It's like, the more you commit, the happier the animators are; if you're at all iffy and concerned, then it doesn't free them up to do as much fun stuff, so you have to just go for it and, again, trust the people around you and not be seemingly guarded and numb. Throw caution to the wind a bit.

We're just one cog in this giant machine. You show up and look at all the other cogs like, "Wow, everyone is the best at what they do." You're in really good hands. And that frees you up to play and feel safe, and you can take chances, creatively. You can take risks. I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe.

It's such a contentious thing to get people in a room and just say, "go!"

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

When you're really having fun, you're always doing it a little bit in a way that you're not supposed to. That's when great things happen.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate.

Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and things were starting to click.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

Working with someone who's really passionate about it is great, because you become passionate, and then it's fun; it's not work anymore.

It's been so inspiring to have complete creative control and to just have fun creating and collaborating with people I admire greatly.

I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.

I wasn't really actively trying to pursue music, so I was really just allowed to create freely without any pressure or outside influences like, 'Oh, I should be making this' or 'I should be collaborating with this person.' It was just kind of like whatever I wanted to do. I was just having fun with it.

If you have a culture of respect, creativity flows. You create this energy, and then people have more desire to take risks.

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.

That's important to remember: it's not just a collection of great individuals but a group of people who enjoy playing in the sandbox, thoroughly enjoying collaborative problem solving.

A tremendous amount of energy is freed up when you feel that your vision is actually respected and cared for by the people you're working with.

If you cannot allow people to do their jobs ... nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.

Any kind of vision needs people.

Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.

I do know that people tend to do their best work when they're challenged and stimulated by their peers.

People are more productive when they're alone, but they're more collaborative and innovative when they're together.

I'm really a big believer in working with people. It's challenging for me to come into already integrated brands and find a way where I can put my own flair on it.

I'll always push the envelope. To me, the ultimate sin in life is to be boring. I don't play it safe.

It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.