Jean Houston Quotes

The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.

I just work with people that I love and respect, that inspire me to be a better person, a better artist.

If you put enough smart people together in one space, good things happen.

Entrepreneurs have a natural inclination to go it alone. While this do-it-yourself spirit can help you move forward, adding an element of collaboration into the mix can make you unstoppable.

The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting.

One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

I think you can write very good comedy without a partner, but what I love about it, working with a partner, is that you get to places you'd never get on your own. It's like when God was designing the world and decided we couldn't have children without a partner; it was a way of mixing up the genes so you'd get a more interesting product.

In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.

Creative collaboration is awesome.

You do your work as fully as you can, and the ones who hear the sound join in.

I always feel like I want to work with people who raise my game, and I can do the same for them, and we can jump off the cliff together.

I've always appreciated working with people I have chemistry with, who are friends, and where you feel that the work is growing while you are getting to know each other better.

Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry that we take advantage of when we get together.

My focus is to grow, have fun, and work with people who inspire me, like Philip Seymour Hoffman.

I find that it's nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else's feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself.

I'm at my best when I'm working with really talented people, and I'm there to gently suggest or guide or inspire or contribute whatever I can to their effort.

Diversity and inclusion, which are the real grounds for creativity, must remain at the center of what we do.

There is something special when creative people get together.

It is absolutely important to balance stars with newcomers so the whole chemistry and ambience between people who have never worked before becomes far more explosive and exciting.

When you are doing something neat, and you're doing it with neat people, and there is that convergence, something amazing will happen.

The limitations and parameters of a band is something I've always enjoyed: so many creative people coming together and raising the music to places we'd never get on our own.

I always love working with other creative talent.

There are always a ton of different people to learn from and people that are pushing me to get better.

I believe in taking people away from their desks and making them feel collaborative and inspire one another instead of being siloed.