Jon Watts Quotes

The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It's just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.

Unless you and your mate are united in purpose, dedication, and loyalty, you will not succeed to the extent you otherwise could.

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

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.

When I start something, I know people I am working with, it's a project they're interested in.

Players are smart. That locker room knows. So don't hide anything.

The four of us are really in sync with each other. We're pretty open about most things. We try to respect each other as much as we can. For us, communication is really important.

A strong working relationship requires every participant to be on the same page.

I had a rule - I didn't have a lot of rules - and one of them was we're going to operate from a mutual respect. I won't embarrass you, and I don't expect you to be embarrass me.

When you work together in a creative way, you have to be less selfish about your ideas and learn to let both parties feel valued. Of course, that's also a really great quality to have in a relationship, too.

The biggest thing that I learned is when you're building something - especially a project that requires partners - you have to make sure that there is a lot of overlapping desire and a lot of overlapping alignment with the people that you're doing work with.

I'm very open about my referencing; I'm very open about who I work with.

It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.

Sometimes players are very fed up with my communication, but that's what I do, and they know how I think. But they know I am very transparent.

If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.

To get into another person's mindset and what they are trying to do with their project is a challenge, and it is what I like.

The rider and the team need to understand one another and work in the same direction. Then the rider's happy, and only then will the rider be able to give 100%.

When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back.

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.

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

I think people have different definitions of team unity. My definition is doing whatever it takes to win, what makes a great team; it's performance on the field, respect on the field.

The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.

As I've grown older, I've grown more convinced there's nothing that shouldn't be talked about. If we think we're protecting each other, we're not.

I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through.

You know, you can have someone who's the very best at something, but if there's not that kind of chemistry, collaborating is not going to amount to anything.