“What you're always trying to achieve in a creative relationship is one that is egoless... ideas belong to the collective. If you can disassociate your own ego from your idea, then, almost always, everybody will arrive at the same decision as to what is best.” IfsTryingIdeasDecisionCreativeAchieveEgoCollectivesCollaborationAlways Trying Author:Dave Genn
“In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical time-wasting would be devised: both processes gained speed through the nineteenth century and have come close to the limit of extravagant futility in our own time. But labor-saving devices could only achieve their end-that of freeing mankind for higher functions-if the standard of living remained stable. The dogma of increasing wants nullified every real economy and set the community in a collective squirrel-cage.” IfsWantRealEndsWould BeFormNamesProcessCommunityEconomyAchieveMankindCenturyHigherThousandLimitsStandardsLaborFunctionSpeedSavingCollectivesDevicesWasting TimeStableDogmaEfficiencyConsumerismCagesNineteenth CenturyFutilityOverconsumptionExtravagantStandards Of LivingSquirrels Author:Lewis Mumford
“Each one of us has to work hard to achieve our collective dream for a healthier planet.” HardDreamAchievePlanetsHard WorkCollectives Author:Yaya Toure
“Participation in the collective life of the polis both restrains the extraordinary individual and enlarges the ordinary individual, allowing him to participate in the extraordinary. An individual can achieve participatory excellence via the accomplishments of the polis and need not always be caught up in the agnostic struggle to outdo his peers.” NeedsIndividualStruggleAchieveOrdinaryExcellenceExtraordinaryCaughtAccomplishmentCollectivesAllowingPeersParticipationAgnosticCaught UpPolis Author:Rebecca Goldstein
“Saving the world happens one person at a time. Be at the front of the queue. Each one of us has to work hard to achieve our collective dream for a healthier planet.” WorldPersonsHardDreamHappensAchieveFrontsPlanetsHard WorkSavingCollectivesSave The WorldQueues Author:Yaya Toure