“Creativity takes a hit when people in a work group compete instead of collaborate.” PeopleCreativityGroupsCollaboration Author:Teresa Amabile
“[On her collaboration with Adolph Green:] We stare at each other. We meet, whether or not we have a project, just to keep up a continuity of working. There are long periods when nothing happens, and it's just boring and disheartening. But we have a theory that nothing's wasted, even those long days of staring at one another. You sort of have to believe that, don't you? That you had to go through all that to get to the day when something did happen.” BelieveLongHappensCreativityTheoryPeriodsProjectsGreenBoringThings HappenStaringCollaborationContinuityLong DayDisheartening Author:Betty Comden
“The Ancient Romans did not regard acts of genius to emanate from within an individual - but rather saw it as a collaboration between a spirit of creativity and a human being. So it could be that sometimes an individual had that power, that divine inspiration, or other times not. The spirit might have moved on to some other lucky soul.” HumansSoulSometimesInspirationMightSpiritIndividualHuman BeingsCreativitySawsDivineGeniusLuckyRegardMovedAncientCollaborationMoved OnEmanateDivine Inspiration Author:Liz Garbus
“Collaboration is like the sex of creativity.” SexCreativityCollaboration Author:Francis Ford Coppola
“I left college two months ago because it rewards conformity rather than independence, competition rather than collaboration, regurgitation rather than learning and theory rather than application. Our creativity, innovation and curiosity are schooled out of us.” TwoLeftCreativityCollegeTheoryMonthsInnovationIndependenceCompetitionRewardsCuriosityConformityCollaborationApplicationSchooledTwo Months Author:Dale J. Stephens
“The freedom of personal expression, ideas and imagination, working in collaboration with people from diverse backgrounds - is what's needed to spawn creativity.” PeopleIdeasImaginationCreativityExpressionNeededBackgroundsCollaborationDiverseSpawnPersonal Expression Author:Larry R. Thompson
“People put on their earphones, they lay out their phones, they put - open up their computers, and they convince themselves that they're most productive when they're focused on their e-mail, when, really, they're ignoring the cafeteria, the watercooler, the meetings with colleagues, the times when really the creativity, collaboration happens.” PeopleHappensCreativityComputerLaysMeetingsPhonesFocusedProductiveConvinceCollaborationMailColleaguesCafeteria Author:Judy Woodruff
“I think I learned a lot about collaboration and about joint creativity with other people. It is honestly so much fun and I don't think that I would have had the same album if I had just written it by myself.” PeopleIfsThinkingFunCreativityWrittenAlbumsHonestlyCollaborationJoints Author:Bridgit Mendler
“I don't feel qualified to comment on whether or not the internet has damaged collaboration and creativity. That is not my experience... my experience is that I have had access to meeting people online that I might otherwise not have met, gone on to meet them in real life and collaborated on fun projects.” PeopleFeelsRealMightFunCreativityGoneInternetMetsProjectsMeetingsAccessReal LifeOnlineCommentCollaborationQualified Author:Horace Panter
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” PeopleIfsWantInspirationalLongWisdomDreamMotivationalSuccessFaithPeaceLeadershipTeachCreativitySeaTeamBuildingDeterminationTasksInnovationLongingWoodsEndlessShipsTeamworkCollaborationCooperationSailBad AssFollow Your DreamsOur ActionsVisionariesTeam BuildingTeam WorkImmensityBest TeamDreams You HaveSailing And The SeaTeamwTeam WorkingBuilding A TeamCooperation TeamworkAviatorCooperation And TeamworkSailing ShipsVisions And DreamsShips At SeaMotivational TeamworkInnovation InspirationSea LifeSailors And The SeaImportance Of TeamworkInspirational And InnovationLeadership TeamworkLeadership VisionLeadership And VisionTeamwork In EducationVisionary LeadersTeam CollaborationCooperation And CollaborationInspiration And InnovationVisionary LeadershipTeam Work MotivationalLeading The WayBecoming A LeaderLeading OnInnovative LeadershipTeamwork AthleticEndless JourneyEndless Sea Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery