Issey Miyake Quotes

When you have a fruitful relationship with someone, and you've both chosen to work together, then it can spawn really good things.

I only collaborate with the people I rock with in life, period. I rock with people where I really respect their craft and respect what they're doing. That's what collaboration should start from.

The rider and the team need to understand one another and work in the same direction. Then the rider's happy, and only then will the rider be able to give 100%.

You know, you can have someone who's the very best at something, but if there's not that kind of chemistry, collaborating is not going to amount to anything.

I like to know who I'm working with, and it's important because they've got to be able to bring something to the party.

It is so killer to collaborate with someone who gets what you're trying to say.

There's a synergy with Dre and me.

You wanna work with people who you have a rapport with. You finish each other's sentences a bit creatively when you've worked together for a while.

The relationship between a client must be 'we.'

You have to really work with someone who you think is going to be a collaborator, who you think understands what you want to do with this movie and how you want to do it.

Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.

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.

A band is like a marriage - you don't know why it works, but when it does, everything feels right.

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.

No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can't communicate.

The one great thing about a continuing collaboration is that they know you. And if you're really lucky, they really believe in you and think that your talent has some unending bounds to it.

You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back.

Together we knew that we could have success.

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

There must be free and open interdepartmental discussion and consideration of everyone's ideas and opinions. These internal discussions must not be considered an invasion of turf, and must remain private... When everyone is on the same page, trust develops, and teams can grow and succeed together.

I've written with people who aren't like me, then I've written with people who totally get it. It's like a blind date, and you never know what's going to happen. But it's really cool because they learn from you, and you learn a little bit from them. And sometimes it works out, and sometimes it doesn't.

You cannot build a partnership on four games.

It's a very good thing to have a group that stays together and understands each other as well.

I'm excited about working with Mark Hughes and building a good relationship with him.

I'd never be a jerk with my teammates because I know I need them to be successful.