Sandra Cisneros Quotes

Everyone has something to learn from one another. When different disciplines meet, it creates this amazing unpredictability.

Have different people in your fold. Have cross-disciplinary collaborations.

I don't think you can know too many smart people. I don't think you should ever stop meeting people.

People are sources not just of consumption but of innovation.

I find discussing mathematics with colleagues of different backgrounds one of the most productive ways of making progress.

When you talk about inspiration, I draw inspiration from life. The people that I work with.

I love hanging out with skilled and motivated people.

There are people from lots of different fields in my department. In my lab, they come from computer science, education, psychophysics, psychology, music - and we all work together, and it feels very comfortable. All the careers I've had have been interdisciplinary; working in a studio is like being an engineer and a musician and a therapist.

I've gotten to meet so many talented people!

One of the cool things about traveling and being a musician is that you meet so many people who have studied different things and have different careers.

When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other fields, I like to have them all in the same workshop, and not worry about genre. I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to be very different than what you'll get from a poet. Or the comments you'll get from a filmmaker about your performance are going to be very different. My writing workshop is about mixing it up, cross-pollinating, not only in genres but in occupations.

No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.

I look for people who have insight in places where I don't.

A chef is a chef, a cook is a cook; a lorry driver is a lorry driver and a designer is a designer. I've never heard anyone say that Philippe Starck is a chef. The important thing is dialogue. If I said to Norman Foster that he was a chef he'd say "No", but he might have a dialogue with chefs. People have said to me for many years that I'm not a chef and that I'm an artist instead, but I always say, "No, I'm a chef." I just have dialogues with designers.

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.

I definitely want to work with people who are artists and who are interested in being their best version of themselves.

Collaborate with people you can learn from

We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better.

Sometimes you have to go outside your field of study to find the right people.

To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.

Most innovation comes from people working together, collaborating in teams.

You don't have to know everything as long as you know people who know the things you don't

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

We [with Neal Dodson and Corey Moosa] were constantly looking for features and looking for ways to get involved with people who were making stuff.

I was really selfish, and I didn't want to listen to anyone. Then I started working with some really amazing people, traveling more, and figuring out who I was as a person - looking at different things, listening to different music.