Quote

Good collaboration essentially boils down to personalities who work well together and are able to integrate each other's notes and ideas without killing each other.

Michael Scott

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Michael Scott
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 29
Actor
Clergyman
Executive Producer
Screenwriter
Showrunner
Television Actor
Television Producer
Ann Arbor
Michigan
Ken Tremendous
Work
Killing
Good
Personality
Boils
Together
Integrate
Able
Integrating
Ideas
Personalities
Wells
Collaboration
Without
Essentially
Well
Notes

More quotes by Michael Scott

Image
Love is the water of life, drink deeply.
Michael Scott
Image
The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, Josh,” Flamel said quietly. “And the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer. Sophie,” he added, without looking at her.
Michael Scott
Image
I'm always reading. Here's where an ebook reader really comes into its own. When I travel, it allows me to carry a huge chunk of my library with me. Usually, when I am writing one project, I am researching the next or beginning to pull together the material for the book after that.
Michael Scott
Image
we are nothing more than the sum of our memories and experiences
Michael Scott
Image
I wanted to be a librarian from a very young age. Some of my earliest memories are being taken to the local library. I ended up working as a bookseller. Becoming a writer was the logical offshoot of being a reader.
Michael Scott
Image
He is many things - dangerous and devious, cunning and deadly, a good friend and an implacable enemy - but he comes from an age when a man's word was indeed precious.
Michael Scott
Image
The day we stop learning is the day we die.
Michael Scott
Image
I never base characters on real people - you can get into so much trouble that way!
Michael Scott
Image
Her hands flew to her mouth. 'Are we even twins?' Josh rested his hand on her shoulder and brought his forehead to rest against hers, strands of their blond hair mingling. 'I will always be your brother, Sophie. I will always look after you.
Michael Scott
Image
Villains often more the story along while the heros react to the villains, so the villain becomes the engine of the story.
Michael Scott
Image
You need to play to win. But you also need to win ... to play.
Michael Scott
Image
My specialty is mythology.There are artifacts like the hallows scattered through just about every mythology. However, what makes the Celtic hallows so interesting is that they are a self-contained group of objects.
Michael Scott
Image
I am a writer (and one day I'll be an author). For a long time I was a bookseller (who wrote) or a TV producer (who wrote), but for the last decade or so, its been writer.
Michael Scott
Image
TMI? Too Much Information. It”s just easier to say 'TMI'. I used to say 'don't go there', but that's lame.
Michael Scott
Image
You must learn to heed your senses. Humans use but a tiny percentage of theirs. They barely look, they rarely listen, they never smell, and they think that they can only experience feelings through their skin. But they talk, oh, do they talk.
Michael Scott
Image
The people that you work with are, when you get down to it, your very best friends.
Michael Scott
Image
Negotiations are about controlling things, about being in the driver's seat and make one tiny mistake you're dead. I made one tiny mistake, I wore women's clothes
Michael Scott
Image
The most reward experience is having another writer come up to you and say that they started writing because they read my books. That is how writing as a profession continues: readers becomes writers who inspire new readers.
Michael Scott
Image
Some writing courses will advise you to write what you know. I've always thought this is very odd advice ... because it means, for example, that I should not be writing about Nicholas Flamel, because I didn't live in France in the 15th Century, I was not an alchemyst, am not immortal (despite the rumours) and do not know magic.
Michael Scott
Image
It's always been Apple's goal to ship something we were proud of and something people would be proud to own, and I think that's still true from thirty years ago.
Michael Scott