Tim Hunt Quotes

Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'

I don't believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men standing on the shoulders of other men and what they have done.

I've always looked on myself as one of a band and never sought a solo career.

No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.

I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

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.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

My success is the team's success. It's one of those things to a certain degree that it's effort and ability but also how I benefit from what my teammates do, and then it is up to me to perform.

Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

Collaborations have no meaning if 1 + 1 does not equal much more than 2.

It's not really about what I can do individually, it's about what we can accomplish as a team.

I'm not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

I had a lot of success, of course, but whatever was achieved was due to a group effort on the part of all the players.

Working together precedes winning together...collaboration is multiplication.

Collaboration is multiplication.

And what I liked the most about any project was that when it was good, you had a bunch of people trying to accomplish something together who were all acting together as one - that's the most exciting time for me.

I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.

That's a gift God's given us: the ability to work together in collaborations.

Collaborations aren't easy, but you definitely get something highly different than had you done it on your own. That's part of the experience.

I don't believe in an 'all-about-me' culture. It's about the group.

This work is the result of a meeting of minds from two of the most successful men in their respective fields.