Collaborative Thinking Quotes

The smartest person in the room is never as smart as all the people in the room.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

Being able to chuck ideas around and bounce ideas off each other with anyone I'm working with is just something I love to do, that's how most of these ideas are formed.

What we say is an opinion it's the best that we can reach, if anybody can bring a better opinion we will accept it.

The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities. Philosophy is a team sport. Philosophy is the ultimate, the ultimate aphrodisiac pleasure. Learning how to operate your brain, learning how to operate your mind, learning how to redesign chaos

Five heads are definitely better than one when they're thinking in the same perspective. I think that you really need to have people that you trust. And for me, trust comes from that synchronizing, that same-mindedness.

I believe that if you really have a strong idea, you can say, "What do you think? Let's see how my idea plays off yours."

You need people who have their own views, whose views you respect, whom you can have a productive disagreement with, and work out ideas which you might not have come up with, or who improve on ideas you had.

We were just looking at ideas of each other.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

That's what makes it so fun to be on a team. You're sitting at your house, thinking up this wild, crazy stuff as to how it's going to go, and the other guys are sitting at their houses doing the same thing.

But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

Those who can ask without shame are viewing themselves in collaboration with-rather than in competition with-the world.

Now, you've seen that each one of us have a couple of soapboxes that we like to mount. And after about five minutes of our opinion, then we ask you a question.

One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear them talking, my mouth was open. They understand each other perfectly, and they make these leaps and jumps because they don't have to explain anything.

The best ideas are common property.

Filmmaking is not a one man show. It is not like I'm thinking something and they are expressing it. I try to pull the actor in and together we try to get the expression. It is not my thinking alone, it is our thinking. The actor also becomes a part of the thought process.

The counsel of many wise men is better than the counsel of one man alone.

The opportunity to think with another mind is my preferred mode of travel.

Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community.

The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.

The views of several individuals are assuredly preferable to one man, even as the power of a number of men is of course greater than the power of one man.

My wife is more important to me than anything in the world - including music. She's a great editor and companion for all of my work and she's a great writer herself. If you live with somebody who's smart, they'll affect your thinking more than anything.

You need to understand how human beings bring together their brains and enable their ideas to combine and recombine, to meet and, indeed, to mate. In other words, you need to understand how ideas have sex.

I need, sometimes, individuals to spark an idea so that I can take off running.