Collective Work Quotes

You can't get much done by yourself. Speaking as someone who made a movie - and it took hundreds of people to make it happen - I can say that.

I know it's not a one man team win or lose.

Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished of his proportion; and the stricter theunion, the smaller and the more pitiful he is. But leave him alone, to recognize in every hour and place the secret soul, he will go up and down doing the works of a true member, and, to the astonishment of all, the work will be done with concert, though no man spoke.

I'm the front man, I'm the man on camera, but there's a whole team beyond me.

Ah, my friend, that is the only true church organization, when heads and hearts unite in working for the welfare of the human race!

For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.

I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have taken individualism to its farthest reaches, possibly.

Like I always say, it's a team effort. A lot of behind the scenes work goes in when we're at home.

I just enjoy collaborating. I think there is always something to be learned, and I think that one could never collaborate enough - that would be impossible. So I am always excited and honored when someone wants to work with me.

One mind is enough for a thousand hands.

For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.

I don't want people to think he [Eldridge Cleaver] is so important - our party is important because our party works for the people and no individual is important in our party, including myself.

I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.

I just want to work with people, so I always try to find a way to collaborate in the best way for the music.

What I love is the openness of collaboration.

Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.

This is a group effort. This is group theatre. This is no big star turn. You could do things with it to do that but it would just be out of kilter. This is one reason I like this play. This is a unit.

I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.

The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years.

I'm very collaborative with everybody on the set.

The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.

The seven principles of Kwanzaa - unity, self-determinat ion, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith -- teach us that when we come together to strengthen our families and communities and honor the lesson of the past, we can face the future with joy and optimism.

In my family, we can't just sit and be together. We have to be shelling peas or husking corn or something. A larger task. Some way of being with people.

When you work in fashion, you need to work as a team. You cannot do anything on your own.

Big Red Machine is really a community effort: I guess it involves almost 30 musicians. It does come out of our friendship, but it's really something that is deeply collaborative.