Yo-Yo Ma Quotes

I want a strong team-mate and one that is challenging me.

One of the things you learn when you get married is how you need to always work on continuing to make it better.

This was all very new to me and I did not want to ruin his film! So we worked hard on that basis of confidence that is needed to collaborate comfortably.

I think a good relationship is about collaboration.

I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.

I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.

My career has gone in such a way that I've gotten to learn that, when you're working with a great storyteller, you don't ask questions; you just trust them.

In every relationship, you have to be a team.

If you want me to work with you, then come with an idea. Come with music.

I said to George, 'Why don't you manage me?' He looked at me, a little bit surprised. Then he replied, 'Sure, Sass, I'll manage you, but it would be even better if we managed each other.' The next morning, we got our marriage license at the court.

You cannot build a partnership on four games.

A successful marriage requires commitment to teamwork.

Certainly as a director you want to be working with people who are on the same page as you and that you can trust and get along with.

There's no formula that can make a marriage work. Sometimes two people just click.

I feel like that's a way people can change the way music is - to be guided by someone they believe in and trust. Larson and I really believed in each other. It was like brother/sister, father/daughter, we were laughing and yelling, that's how it is when you make an album! Essentially the trust was there and I got something great.

I think it's important to remember that you go into something like marriage knowing that you don't know very much about it at all. But I do look at the marriage of my mother and stepdad, and what makes it work for them is that it's a team effort.

Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!

I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.

In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.

The best part of being married is, everything we face in life, we face as a team. I don't do a thing - professionally or personally - without discussing it with my wife.

Yeah, improvising only really works 100% when you're with somebody.

Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

The director respects what they've hired you for and chosen you for: to do the part and respect what you're doing.