Temple Grandin Quotes

Have different people in your fold. Have cross-disciplinary collaborations.

When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other fields, I like to have them all in the same workshop, and not worry about genre. I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to be very different than what you'll get from a poet. Or the comments you'll get from a filmmaker about your performance are going to be very different. My writing workshop is about mixing it up, cross-pollinating, not only in genres but in occupations.

I look for people who have insight in places where I don't.

I learned from the Macarturos. I had never been at a table with a labor organizer and a playwright and a performance artist and an anthropologist and a human rights lawyer. Usually at most gatherings, it's all writers. But suddenly I was at a table with all these different people and I learned from each of them, learned from the work they're doing, learned new ways to solve my problems.

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.

You need to mesh the voices of people with expertise and meritocracy.

One of the lessons I have learned in the different stages of my career is that science is not done alone. It is through talking with others and sharing that progress is made.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn't been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

Traveling has a major impact on what I do, cause all over the world I'm meeting all kinds of people. And relationships is the second major impact that I have. I just enjoy the variety that the world has to offer.

The best part of my carreer is getting to meet so many different people, because I learn so much from everyone.

I love collaborating with different people.

I go all over the place. I do like the ability to go around the company at different levels to find the people that have the actual answers to the question.

Talk to people... everything good I've done has come from conversations with people. Science is a very social phenomenon.

My favourite thing about being a model is the people that I meet. I don't think there's any other job where you get to learn so many things about so many different people. I just love forging new relationships.

Everyone has something to learn from one another. When different disciplines meet, it creates this amazing unpredictability.

One of the things I love about this job is meeting different people.

One of the cool things about traveling and being a musician is that you meet so many people who have studied different things and have different careers.

I work hard to reach out to a lot of different people.

The best way to guarantee a steady stream of new ideas is to make sure that each person in your organization is as different as possible from the others. Under these conditions, and only these conditions, will people maintain varied perspectives and demonstrate their knowledge in different ways.

The only way to learn is to keep doing something new, and, if you're lucky, learning with people who really know how to do it.

I just really enjoy the process of working with other talented, creative people. There's great power in bringing diverse points of view together. It can be incredibly stimulating.

Innovation is fostered by information gathered from new connections; from insights gained by journeys into other disciplines or places; from active, collegial networks and fluid, open boundaries. Innovation arises from ongoing circles of exchange, where information is not just accumulated or stored, but created. Knowledge is generated anew from connections that weren't there before.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.

Collaborate with people you can learn from

You don't have to know everything as long as you know people who know the things you don't