Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Quotes

I'm terrible at collaborating with people; nothing ever ends up coming out good.

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

I always step back and look at - you know, look at my background in playing team sports my whole life and taking that approach into Congress. It's not about me going, and you know, feeding my ego going to Congress.

I've grown up a little bit. I understand the importance of the negotiation. It is a collective act.

I've always been a good ensemble player.

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!

But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

You've got to understand when a collaborator isn't satisfied anymore.

When you find somebody who doesn't give and take, you go, 'Remind me never to work with you again.'

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.

It's difficult working with someone who is not a team player.

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.

I don't know how people do this job collaboratively if they don't really get along. You're spending all day every day for months and years on end with somebody.

You can think as Einstein as much as you want, but when you come in contact with another person as a work unit of some kind, you have to think as one. You have to figure out all the things that you've studied and that your mind is telling you, and then you have to figure out how to make it work as one, or you have a broken down team.

Anything you do as a group is fraught with compromise... But everyone 's got to do that, right? It's part of being a good parent, or a good boyfriend, whatever.

I'm not a great collaborator, to tell the truth.

Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.

My brother and I have too good a relationship to spoil it by working together.

Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.

But I think that sensitivity is also a good counsellor when it comes to enforcing one's interests.

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.

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

Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.

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.

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