Quotes About Rapport

I think people end up connecting somehow when they have a lot in common.

There's something inside of me that just connects or doesn't connect with the project.

If you're going to start a group, make sure the people you're starting it with are in sync.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Your friends will know you better in the first moment you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a lifetime.

The conversation advanced with remarkable ease. Talk is cheerful, the way talk is among people who rarely see one another and are surprised they have much to say.

Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically.

In bantering lies the key to human warmth

Am I in a relationship? Yeah. I'm already in a relationship with everybody that likes me.

Friendship is a relationship, friendliness is a state of your being. You are simply friendly; to whom, that is not the point. . .

I want everyone to feel as much as possible as if they inhabit the same space. They more fluid the relationship between actor and audience, the better.

Developing perceptual fluency will increase your ability to access your total mind. No small thing. You will also find that habitual defensiveness and manipulation of others is gradually replaced by a flexible ability to establish rapport with a wide variety of people. What is needed to reach that point is lavish curiosity and the willingness to be a little awkward and embarrassed—qualities that indicate that we are, after all, merely human.

Maintenant que la glace est rompue, causons." (Now the ice is broken, let's talk.) -After shooting into a mirror

He had seemed a man with whom the right kind of dialogue would be possible.

Me and 50 had a conversation. We good.

I love somebody that can hold a great conversation.

The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.

I'm a talkative person because I like to get to know a person and I like you to get to know me.

You did not just say that. I have a feeling we're on the verge of hugging and coming up with cute nicknames for each other.

Mike puts us into trance, pours language - definitions, idioms, concepts - into us for moments that feel like hours... then we dictate at once what he has poured into us, while it's still fresh. But it can't be just anybody. It requires a sharp accent and the ability to join trance rapport and then spill out the results. Sam, for example, has everything but the accent - he manages, God knows how, to speak Martian with a Bronx accent. Can't use him, it would cause endless errata.

We never grow tired of working together or simply talking. We have a rare rapport that others often recognize and envy. For myself, I have found this relationship to be one of the main sources of my own life force. I have called it a transcendental relationship, with a love and acceptance that go beyond the realm of this lifetime.

When a person reports a feeling, it's a comment on our relationship.

Before I can effectively discipline students, I have to earn their friendship and respect.

I remember when my schedule was as flexible as she is.. She call and tell me 'be here before the sun up', I be dressed before we hung up