Sheldon Harnick Quotes

I believe you can work with anybody.

One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others. Having studied so long trying to master myself, the biggest challenge was learning about the other person's work.

I can work with anyone.

I have been fortunate to collaborate with people who have been open to discussion. If I tell them something, they have always explained to me why they want it the other way.

You have to be open to other people's ideas, and you can't be too married to your own.

You must be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.

I come from a background where I like collaboration and improv. I think that it is important.

I play well with everybody.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

What I've learned - after working for, I guess, some time now - is when you're approaching a relationship like that, like, any working relationship, it's good to be open. To know that someone might have a different way of doing things and listen to them. And hopefully, you come to a common understanding.

Life is about compromise - in relationships and at work.

I can work with a lot of different mentalities.

You could have one idea in your mind, and afterwards you could be working with a team with different players, and you may not be able to achieve what you want to, so you need to adapt.

I am always open to when someone says, 'Let's do it this way.'

Working together on solving something requires a high level of humility and a high level of self-awareness.

I realized that if I had to work with others, I had to align with their vision.

I take great pride in being able to work with anybody.

You really have to try and find a way to communicate [in the Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp], to respect each other's opinions and ideas, to be able to fight for something you feel is better than somebody else's idea.

Bargaining makes you come up with the best ideas.

Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.

As a writer, you're really in control of almost everything. That's not the case in TV. You have to be prepared to work with a lot of people to make something happen, and you got to be prepared, at least in the beginning, to not be too good at your specific task.

If the auto plants in Detroit would just sit around the table and say, 'What do we gotta do to make this thing work?' Instead of, 'I want this and I want that.' They might make it.

I just like working with smart people.

If men can learn to be less defensive, more open to others, and more accepting of accountability, they will adapt well to the new global economy.

I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I'm always open to learning everybody's style - the director, the actor I'm working with.