When you work with people you know and trust, ideas come naturally. Solid creative partnerships have common goals. What's great about creative partnerships is the trust and respect you don't find in typical collaborations.

Celebrate differences. It's the silly ideas that you can entertain there. And doing so usually leads to more. You learn how to stand up for each others ideas, no matter how odd they may seem at first. The roles you get to play with each other as creative partners are seldom found in workplace environments. Individual achievements become small.

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“When you find your creative soul mate, you just know it.” -- Lily Tomlin.

"The shift in understanding creativity is well underway. The stereotypes of miraculous breakthrough moments—and the incessant drive to locate them in the head of epic individuals—are slowly yielding to a portrait of complex, meandering, inherently social paths toward innovation." --Joshua Wolf Shenk

"The smallest indivisible unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction."
-- Tony Kushner

"The idea that the center of our psychological universe, and even our physiological experience, is 'me'—this just fundamentally misrepresents us as a species." -- John Cacioppo

"Both parties are processing an ongoing stream of stimuli and responding while the stimulation is still occurring." -- Susan Vaughan

"[u]nity is plural and, at minimum, is two.” -- Buckminster Fuller