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• Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.

  Ken Robinson

  Education, Teamwork, Learning

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• A chance to collaborate with one of my favorite bands in a completely open and supportive creative environment... some our best work.

  Dave Genn

  Creative, Supportive, Band

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• Creativity takes a hit when people in a work group compete instead of collaborate.

  Teresa Amabile

  Creativity, People, Groups

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• I don't design. I don't paint. I absolutely never touch my works.

  Maurizio Cattelan

  Design, Paint

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• The reward of a successful collaboration is a thing that cannot be produced by either of the parties working alone. It is akin to the benefits of sex with a partner, as opposed to masturbation. The latter is fun, but you show me anyone who has gotten a baby from playing with him or herself, and I'll show you an ugly baby, with just a whole bunch of knuckles.

  Harlan Ellison

  Baby, Sex, Fun

  Harlan Ellison (1975). “Partners in Wonder”

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• hybrid, n. A pooled issue.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Issues, Hybrid

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.125, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I'm constantly thinking about trying to piece together collaborators... All disciplines can be narrow.

  Judith Weir

  Thinking, Discipline, Trying

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• Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.

  Alice Walker

  Change, White, Earth

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.275, Hachette UK

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• All of us need to self-promote. We cannot sit back and wait for our gallery or rep to do it all.

  Jack White

  Self, Waiting, Needs

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• It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer before he or she can ruin it.

  Richard Schmid

  Rap, Two, Hammers

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• I've done some collaborations which have ended up like Chinese whispers, but the most successful was with Tilda Swinton... Together we transcended our previous work and made something better together than we could have done apart.

  Cornelia Parker

  Successful, Chinese, Together

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• You are never strong enough that you don't need help.

  Cesar Chavez

  Change, Strength, Being Strong

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.352, Penguin

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• The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

  Jane Addams

  Inspiring, Peace, Equality

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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• True charity requires courage: Let us overcome the fear of getting our hands dirty so as to help those in need.

  Pope Francis

  Dirty, Hands, Overcoming

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.122, SPCK

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• Collaboration is when magic is made with more than one person. It's when more than one person finds common ground on the same page. That's collaboration.

  Michael Urie

  Magic, Pages, Common

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Teamwork, Discovery, Mind

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• It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.

  Jim Hodges

  Relationship, Hands, Drawing

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• What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Teamwork, Mean, Learning

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• Ninety-nine percent of the time humans have lived on this planet we've lived in tribes, groups of 12 to 36 people. Only during times of war, or what we have now, which is the psychological equivalent of war, does the nuclear family prevail, because it's the most mobile unit that can ensure the survival of the species. But for the full flowering of the human spirit we need groups, tribes.

  Margaret Mead

  Change, War, Ninety Nine

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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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• Quantum computation is a distinctively new way of harnessing nature. It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.

  David Deutsch

  Technology, Way, Firsts

  "The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications". Book by David Deutsch. Chapter 9, 1997.

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• I enjoy being given a certain amount of freedom in order to interpret or to come up with stuff, but I do enjoy collaboration. I seek and thrive on projects where I am going to learn from the people I'm working with.

  William Kempe

  Order, People, Stuff

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• Puffy produced four of the tracks on the album. Those are the four songs that are collaborations between Puffy and me. And he gives me my space to work even when we work together, like with my producer and my vocal coach.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Song, Space, Track

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• The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Opening Up, Possibility, Opening

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• I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.

  Steve Lacy

  Art, Thinking, Art Is

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