Quotes About Trust

You are the most exotically beautiful woman I have ever met," he whispered against her forehead. "Don't ever leave me, Amy. I beg of you, never leave me." "I couldn't Charles, not even if I wanted to." And

Breathe, sweetheart." A warm palm cupped her cheek, lips touched her brow. Gray.

Felt his lips, touching her forehead. "You're not going to die, Maeve. You're not going to die, because I am not going to let you die. Do you hear me? And if you give up and abandon me, so help me God, I shall never forgive you.

I think you have to feel comfortable with your car. You have to go into turn one, every lap, with confidence. You have to be sure of yourself and your equipment.

They spoke of the crowds that had filled the plaza: the people, always myopic, always easy to fool.

Never express too much love, affection, care to someone, because it is human tendency to underestimate anything that free of cost.

You can never really trust someone who remembers every embarrassing detail of your adolescence.

You know the phrase 'Don't shoot the messenger'?" Edmondson says. "In fact, it's not enough to not shoot them. You have to hug the messenger and let them know how much you need that feedback. That way you can be sure that they feel safe enough to tell you the truth next time.

Create Safe, Collision-Rich Spaces:

Cohesion happens not when members of a group are smarter but when they are lit up by clear, steady signals of safe connection.

When you ask people inside highly successful groups to describe their relationship with one another, they all tend to choose the same word. This word is not friends or team or tribe or any other equally plausible term. The word they use is family.

A lot of coaches can yell or be nice, but what Pop does is different," says assistant coach Chip Engelland. "He delivers two things over and over: He'll tell you the truth, with no bullshit, and then he'll love you to death.

your cellphone, she is feeding that flame. Cohesion happens not when members of a group are smarter but when they are lit up by clear, steady signals of safe connection.

veteran Navy SEALs commander puts it this way: "Your face is like a door: It can be closed or open. You want to make sure you keep the door open.

The mechanism of cooperation can be summed up as follows: Exchanges of vulnerability, which we naturally tend to avoid, are the pathway through which trusting cooperation is built.

Spotlight Your Fallibility Early On—Especially If You're a Leader: In any interaction, we have a natural tendency to try to hide our weaknesses and appear competent. If you want to create safety, this is exactly the wrong move. Instead, you should open up, show you make mistakes, and invite input with simple phrases like "This is just my two cents." "Of course, I could be wrong here." "What am I missing?" "What do you think?

Los braintrust no son divertidos. Son situaciones en las que se dice a los directores que los personajes carecen de alma, que la línea argumental es confusa y que los chistes son malos. Pero también sirven para hacer mejores las películas. «El braintrust es, con mucha diferencia, lo más importante que hacemos —afirma el presidente de Pixar, Ed Catmull—. Se basa en la total sinceridad de las críticas.»

They did not rely on any outside structure or safety net. They were the structure, and if any of them failed, the group would fail.

What these healers all had in common was that they were brilliant listeners. They would sit down, take a long patient history, and really get to know their patients," Marci says. "They were all incredibly empathic people who were really good at connecting with people and forming trusting bonds. So that's when I realized that the interesting part wasn't the healing but the listening, and the relationship being formed.

Safety is not mere emotional weather but rather the foundation on which strong culture is built.

When you ask people inside highly successful groups to describe their relationship with one another, they all tend to choose the same word. This word is not friends or team or tribe or any other equally plausible term. The word they use is family. What's more, they tend to describe the feeling of those relationships in the same way.

Make Sure the Leader Is Vulnerable First and Often:

I made a list: Close physical proximity, often in circles Profuse amounts of eye contact Physical touch (handshakes, fist bumps, hugs) Lots of short, energetic exchanges (no long speeches) High levels of mixing; everyone talks to everyone Few interruptions Lots of questions Intensive, active listening Humor, laughter Small, attentive courtesies (thank-yous, opening doors, etc.) One more thing: I found that spending time inside these groups was almost physically addictive.

none carries more power than the moment when a leader signals vulnerability. As Dave Cooper says, I screwed that up are the most important words any leader can say.