Sarah Cooper Quotes

When you have more than two people working together, it gets a bit unfocused as an idea.

When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.

The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

Basically, the way I do it is I get to work with a bunch of people; get a bunch of great people together, and you'll be able to get something cool on the other side.

The experiences you gain by doing something solo - you have such a great work effort there as well, one we all have now - we can all bring it back to the group.

Floor time is valuable. Our leadership isn't going to bring something up that's going to take up floor time and not be successful.

I'm really interested in working with groups. It's a very simple thing for me, and if I'm given the option to work with two people or 10 or 20 people, I'm going to take 10 or 20. I just think there's so much more I can do with that.

When we work together as a group we don't contribute individually as much as I do when I'm working on my solos. I try to give as much input when I'm working on a song or album but as a group it's kind of difficult since there are five of us. Having all of us contribute to the same extent is a little more challenging than when doing our own things.

I never accepted the premise that meetings themselves were bad.

I'm the front man, I'm the man on camera, but there's a whole team beyond me.

Meetings don't have to be endless to be eternal.

[C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation of many.

If you're having fun, if you're working with people you love working with, then the results are always going to be exciting.

It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative matter.

Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.

I do have a rule that very few meetings are worth more than ten minutes.

I find most meetings are a waste of time, because they are so ill-prepared and there's little opportunity for true synergy in producing better solutions than what anyone originally thought of. So I work hard to only attend those meetings that have strategic importance and miss all kinds of other seemingly urgent meetings.

I'm a very collaborative person, so that's not the way I work any way. Once VW got over the idea that I was going to blow their cars up, then we shot the thing really fast and it came out really good. Like I said, it won a bunch of awards and that really was the start of working in commercials.

When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species.

A lot of the other things in my life like making music, you know that's a very collaborative thing so I work on comics because it's not something that's a solo activity.

There are definitely aspects of that kind of stuff. The whole team [of Legends of Tommorow] gets thrown together. They don't really know each other like that. They haven't worked together before.

TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing.

It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone. You don't feel that you're being tested, as it were.

I love producing, I love bringing things together.

One of the pieces of advice that we give at YC is: try to work together on a project rather than just doing an interview.