Marco Rubio Quotes

We can argue and we can disagree, but we don’t need to poke our fingers in each other’s eyes in order to get our points across.

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

You need people who have their own views, whose views you respect, whom you can have a productive disagreement with, and work out ideas which you might not have come up with, or who improve on ideas you had.

The ideal is to build a culture of healthy discussion, where everyone's ideas are valued. At KIND, we want everyone to be comfortable challenging my or anyone else's ideas without ever feeling or making someone else feel that the questioning is a personal attack.

I don't want just attitude and loud opinion.

Collaboration is about listening to someone else and adding your own feelings about that thought.

I've learned how to trust someone else's ideas with mine.

Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.

What I generally tell a class is that if you're not interested in anybody else's work but your own, take another class.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

I am totally down with disagreement. I don't like Haterade, but disagreement is wonderful. When someone disagrees, we try to reach common ground. That's good.

The directors I respect are the ones who have a collaborative attitude, who collaborate with actors.

I just love to collaborate with people who take my ideas real serious, and they don't put up walls around them.

Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are sharing this territorial freedom of political discussion. If our discourse is yelled and screamed and interrupted and patronized, that's uncivil.

I don’t allow my staff to criticize each other…. Evan Rosalyn … She knows that nothing can make me madder then for her to criticize staff.

What we say is an opinion it's the best that we can reach, if anybody can bring a better opinion we will accept it.

There is something about me that is collaborative, that wants to get the best performance out of somebody else or to hear something that somebody else has done that's good and to try and make it great.

I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.

I think it's important to understand people can disagree on things, and still move forward.

The Duffers can be super articulate or very straight to the point. I was really impressed with how they were with each other.

The way I was brought up in improv was that any idea you have is not as good as your partner's idea, so if I see someone else initiating at the same time I am, I just defer to them because I assume their idea is going be better. And hopefully, they're doing the same with me.

If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don't say, 'You don't know how to use the English language,' or 'How could you make that argument?' It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.

When you're collaborating with somebody, there has to be a spirit of cooperation. There are a lot of times when you just can't persuade someone to write a certain type of song, either musically or lyrically.

There's a way to speak your mind. You don't just go off and say whatever you feel is right. You have to say what you feel is right and say it if it's something that works for the team.