Quotes About Rapport

I like to get within handshaking distance of the crowd. If it happens, they know it, we know it, and that's all we came here for.

I feel like a teenager myself, so I appreciate it when the kids think you're all right.

It is at programmes organised on the sidelines of temple festivals that you get to see raw audiences who will let you know immediately whether the act has clicked or not. It was those audiences who taught me how to strike a rapport with the audience.

Not all friendships take a long time to grow and deepen. Some are formed in an instant.

Small talk is about putting people at ease. Your unspoken answer to their unspoken question, How do you like me so far? must be, Wow! I really like you.

It's easy to be friends with when shares the same opinions.

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

Animals, Gerald felt by instinct, were his equals, no matter how small, or ugly, or undistinguished; they were, at a level beyond the merely sentimental, his friends and companions - often his only ones, for he had no great rapport with other children. And the animals, in their turn, sensed this, and responded accordingly, not just when he was a boy on Corfu but throughout all the years of his life.

I just loved being around everybody. We just found a rhythm with each other that you want to get on everything you ever do in your life.

Insightful questions build credibility and deepen relationships.

Sometimes you could meet a complete stranger and just know you really liked them.

There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.

When a lot of players come to a club, it can be difficult to gel because you don't know each other properly.

I'm the biggest fan of face-to-face communication.

My job is just to get open and catch the ball so I don't really focus on who the quarterback is. But I try to build a rapport with whoever is calling the plays.

If you're doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you're not going to have a relationship with them, they're not going to like you, they're not going to be your friend.

Many people tell me that my pairing with Tamannaah worked big time towards the success of 'Paiyaa.' In 'Siruthai,' our on-screen chemistry will crackle as we share a terrific rapport.

Though her grasp of English was modest and his Italian non-existent, their rapport was at once intuitive and intimate, founded more on physical attraction and a shared love of the outdoors than meaningful conversation.

I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater, that audience and I were together.

That is how it was with them. A closeness, a rapport that was almost entire, except for these small niggling uncertainties which, most of the time, she [Janey Ashcroft] was able to ignore, but sometimes, like tonight, grew like balloons to such size and importance that she wondered how she was going to be able to cope with them. ['Anniversary']

Saying hello doesn't have an ROI. It's about building relationships.

The most important thing about dreams is the existence in them of magical emotions, to which waking consciousness is not ordinarily sentient. Awe of vast constructions; familiar eternal halls of buildings; sexual intensity in rapport; deathly music; grief awakenings, perfected lodgings.

Laughing with a man was a good step forward. First comes the laughter, then the respect, then the trust.

All my life I had a rapport with black caddies.