Paul F. Tompkins Quotes

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

Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners.

Because if you get someone who is a bit of a diva or are just not on the same page it can be a nightmare - and I'd rather go out knowing they've had an amazing time and we've got on than win the Glitterball although you've just had a horrible time and the person was horrible.

When you say sorry it creates a better working relationship.

It's like any normal job. There are people you butt heads with. The main thing is that while you might have difference of opinion, when you get into the ring you take care of each other and you don't try to hurt the other person.

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

I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'

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.

In the German football team players from different clubs need to get on with each other both on and off the pitch. In the grand coalition Christian Democrats and Social Democrats sit in the same boat and need to pull in the same direction.

I have hardly ever worked with the same director twice. But when you have worked with a director before, you understand his behavior.

A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.

Communication between band-mates is imperative. Communication is the key to any healthy relationship. If I need to be checked, I expect to hear it put in plain words what my faults are, and give my band-mates the ultimate consideration by shutting up and listening, then acting on the advice given. Same goes for anyone else in any band.

It's not easy working with your husband, I'll be straight up about that. But when we work together, we always get great product. It's not easy in the process and as we go along it gets easier, but yeah, it gets a little sticky.

You cannot work with men who won't work with you.

You have to work with people you really love.

I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone.

if we stop talking at one another, and start talking with one another, we can get a lot done.

Employees don't need to be best friends, but there does need to be a level of mutual respect and understanding.

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.

When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.

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.

I understand from experience that unity is easy to call for, but it takes the right kind of leadership to achieve.

You're not best friends with someone just because you work with them, but you have to be able to at least work together, or there is no point.

Heck, nobody gets along perfectly. But what we have is respect for one another. We have a system where one guy can veto anything.

As it happens in relationships that are open and frank and based on mutual respect, you say things as you think them, and this doesn't mean that you don't work together in a constructive way.