Liam Payne Quotes

I'm really interested in working with groups. It's a very simple thing for me, and if I'm given the option to work with two people or 10 or 20 people, I'm going to take 10 or 20. I just think there's so much more I can do with that.

You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.

Meetings get a bad rap, and deservedly so - most are disorganized and distracted. But they can be a critical tool for getting your team on the same page.

The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

I don't like the five-person group dynamic. I just never have. It doesn't make sense to me that six people would just sit in a circle and say, 'Now I want approval,' 'Now I want approval,' 'Now I want approval.' 'I have something funny to say,' 'No, I have something funny to say, me!' It's hard to make plans.

Nothing great can come of more than three people in a room.

And touring is difficult when everybody's heads aren't in the same place.

Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.

I love collaborating with people.

Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting.

I just like collaborating.

Nothing great can come of more than three people in a room. If you had 10 incredibly bright people, nothing would come out of it.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

Writers, actors, anybody working on an ensemble-type thing, there are going to be some creaks in the beginning. It seems like there's tremendous potential in just letting things sort of breathe a little bit. It's tremendously important.

It is hard to get things done if you spend all of your time with the choir as opposed to the rest of the congregation.

It's highly collaborative, musical theater, so everybody has got to somehow get along.

At Ford, one of the behaviors is you listen, and you don't have side conversations during the meeting. It's just so important everybody stays focused.

When you see the rival make a certain pass, you don't need to look behind you. You know 100 per cent that all your teammates will go with you.

During the game, you don't really notice how many guys have touched the ball because you're just focusing on where you need to be.

When you're dealing with a bunch of different producers, you gotta make sure the chemistry fits.

In a nine-piece-band is one guy gonna call up eight guys and have a 45-minute discussion about every decision? No. So things are a lot more democratic in Stone Sour. Plus, we're closer and it's a lot easier to communicate. In Slipknot that's the big problem - communication.

When you are in a squad, you are looking around to make sure that everyone is focused and feels the same way.