Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.

There are definitely designers that I love, people I love to work with. And who they are as people matters. Are they good people? Do they treat their staff well? Do they treat my staff well? Are they young? Can I give them a boost? But when all of that is equal… is it cute?

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

I’m not a genius. I need other people to get the perfect information. When we have this, we will decide to sign or sell a player.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It’s a technology that brings people together.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, ‚Nobody under 40,‘ or ‚Nobody under 25.‘ With my books, it always has been, and continues to be, spread right across the board, and I think the operative term is ‚reader.‘

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It’s our way.

I’ve been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it’d be awesome to work with him. He’s really kind, and he’s been really encouraging when we’ve met.

While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren’t taken seriously as a writer. It used to trouble me a lot, but nothing troubles me now, and besides, there has been a change. I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were.

I made the track ‚Si Tu Novio Te Deja Sola‘ before I met Balvin.

I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Our nation must come together to unite.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

I’ve thought sometimes about what I like about football, and it’s playing together.

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it’s such an interesting part of their environment.

We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It’s an open floor plan. People have these desks where no one really has an office. I mean, I have a room where I meet with people. But it has all glass, so everyone can see into it and see what’s going on.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.

To not be modest about it, you’ll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I’ve worked with have done their best work by far with me.

What we achieve individually is important but it’s never ever more than the team does.

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I’ll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I’ve written a whole song in an hour.

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special.

I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad… he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.

I’ve had the opportunity to work with so many great directors. Different styles, as well, like Gus Van Sant. He just does the casting and the milieu and let’s you do your thing, quietly. Bertolucci, who can talk to you about your internal world in quite a creative way or just say, ‚Well, put your hand over here.‘

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

I would love to get Rihanna on a Khaled song. That’s my friend, but every time I’m around her, I get shy.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it’s not an ‚us versus them,‘ it’s an ‚us and them‘ type scenario.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

When individual members of the team are highly disciplined, they can be trusted and, therefore, allowed to operate with very little oversight.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

Hackathons are these things where just all of the Facebook engineers get together and stay up all night building things. And, I mean, usually at these hackathons, I code too, just alongside everyone.

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

I start each book when it’s ready and never before.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don’t think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn’t mean we have to wash each other’s feet every day, but we must help one another.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.