Gene Luen Yang Quotes

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.

You learn a lot about a person when you work together.

In our group, it was a necessary requirement that one has to be able to collaborate.

Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other.

My mum always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well.

Working with my husband, I thought we would be at each other. As close as we are, our styles are so different. But it didn't happen - we were surprised.

It's hard to make something collaboratively. That's the challenge. Sometimes you're successful.

Toby not being there doesn't bother me, I mean I can work with anybody as long as we get along and as long as they've got an understanding of what I want and what I'm aiming for. To start with, when he left, it was difficult.

You know, it's just tough to get together and do work with somebody.

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

Well, then we got to know each other and eventually worked out a bit of idea of management.

One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others. Having studied so long trying to master myself, the biggest challenge was learning about the other person's work.

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.

What I've learned - after working for, I guess, some time now - is when you're approaching a relationship like that, like, any working relationship, it's good to be open. To know that someone might have a different way of doing things and listen to them. And hopefully, you come to a common understanding.

Every time you work with a new co-star, a whole new dynamic emerges.

Of course it's always easy when you work with people that worked together, or you work with people that you worked with before, because you develop over years some sort of shorthand of communion that is always very valuable.

When you're part of an ensemble and share the screen with so many people, you become close to them because you're hanging out all the time. Obviously you have your ups and downs, but that kind of brings you closer in many ways.

I'd love to collaborate with a writer, but I'm such a control freak, it might be difficult.

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%.

If the auto plants in Detroit would just sit around the table and say, 'What do we gotta do to make this thing work?' Instead of, 'I want this and I want that.' They might make it.

Climbing has worked for me in a number of ways on Capitol Hill. I'm much more inclined to look at what people do, as opposed to what they say. Also, it's about working together - we're all on the rope together, and you don't get to cut the rope if you're not getting along with someone.

The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!

It's always a help when you have worked with someone as you've got to know them a bit already.