Richard Thomas 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.

What I enjoy is a collaboration. Working with other like-minded people. People who have brilliant minds and big hearts.

The ability to work together has to be in the blood of particle physicists. They learn very early on that it is impossible to advance on one's own and that constant exchange is necessary.

I love working with other people and bouncing ideas off 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.

Many years ago, I think I got my first insight on how an incredibly diverse team can work together and do astonishing things, and not just misunderstand each other and fight.

There was a time in my career when my hackles would really get raised if someone came in and said, 'We need you to do this or that.' But the fact of the matter is, you're working in a shared universe, and all elements of the universe are, ideally, going to mesh and work together. That's my goal. I want to be on the team.

Collaboration is a multilane highway, going in all directions. If there isn't reciprocity, it fails, and it's unsatisfying.

Collaborate, don't dictate.

My office has no walls. You can't be removed from your team to be successful. You have to be respectful of others.

I definitely enjoy working with people who can do their thing but also allow me to do my thing, you know? Who respect the process.

I'm down to work with anyone as long as it's an organic collaboration.

I love collaborating with different voices.

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

The whole point of collaboration is that you give and take from each other, and that's how you create things that are totally new.

Collaborating with someone on music is the same way you'd go about hanging out. You have to listen more than you talk.

There are so many great things about this business. Almost everybody is on the same team. It is all for one-friendly competitiveness. No one is out to hurt anyone.

I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.

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%.

I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.

When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back.

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

Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself.

Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together.

One of the lessons I have learned in the different stages of my career is that science is not done alone. It is through talking with others and sharing that progress is made.