Rapport Quotes

“A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. A child cannot be taught by anyone whose demand, essentially, is that the child repudiate his experience, and all that gives him sustenance.”
― James Baldwin

“The quiet ones, the introverts, are uniquely gifted. We have tremendous patience and empathy. We don’t need to say much, yet we’re able to build deep connections and rapport with those around us. The act of displaying Quiet Confidence is much easier to cultivate than we think. It’s built-in, a bundled accessory, we simply have to activate it!”
― Joel Annesley, Quiet Confidence: Breaking Up With Shyness

“I found that the same softness which once made me a target now compelled people to trust me with their stories.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“Here in France, you must practice the art of accomplishing much while appearing to accomplish little. (in the John Adams miniseries on HBO)”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Lincoln admitted his infirmities to make way for his spring.”
― Richard Brookhiser, Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln

“A real salesman knows how to engage Anyone Anywhere Anytime in a sensible conversation.”
― honeya

“Love is one of the most powerful healing tools in the universe. Most people forget to use it to build rapport, to deepen their relatedness, and to mend the upset that underlies disagreement and expectation. Sprinkle more love and you will heal only 100% of the time.”
― Monika Zands

“When you speak from the heart, you are not giving a speech, you are communicating.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“To my own free will the free will of my neighbour is just as indifferent as his poor breath and flesh. For though we are made especially for the sake of one another, still the ruling power of each of us has its own office, for otherwise my neighbour's wickedness would be my harm, which God has not willed in order that my unhappiness may not depend on another.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“There was one story that anger certainly lit the fuse of. In the 1960's, in my home town of Jackson, the civil rights leader Medgar Evers was murdered on night in darkness and I wrote a story that same night about the murderer (identity unknown) called "Where Is The Voice Coming From?" But all that absorbed me, though it started as outrage, was the necessity I felt for entering into the mind and inside the skin of a character who could hardly have been more alien or repugnant to me. Trying for my utmost, I wrote in the first person. I was wholly vaunting the prerogative of the short-story writer. It is always vaunting, of course, to imagine yourself inside another person, but it is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose. I'm not sure this story was brought off; and I don't believe that my anger showed me anything about human character that my sympathy and rapport never had.”
― Eudora Welty, On Writing

“Between the pleasure of a kiss and of what a man and woman do in bed seems to me only a gradation. A kiss, for instance, is not to be minimized, or its value judged by anyone else. I wonder do these men grade their pleasure in terms of whether their actions produce a child or not, and do they consider them more pleasant if they do. It is a question of pleasure after all, and what's the use debating the pleasure of an ice cream cone versus a football gamme--or a Beethoven quartet versus the Mona Lisa. I'll leave that to the philosophers. But their attitude was that I must be somehow demented or blind (plus a kind of regret, I thought, at the fact that a fairly attractive woman is presumably unavailable to men). [...] The most important point I did not mention and was not thought of by anyone--that the rapport between two men or two women can be absolute and perfect, as it can never be between man and woman, and perhaps some people want just this, as others want that more shifting and uncertain thing that happens between men and women. It was said or at least implied yesterday that my present course would bring me to the depths of human vice and degeneration. Yes, I have sunk a good deal since they took you from me. It is true, if I were to go on like this and be spied upon, attacked, never possessing one person long enough so that knowledge of a person is a superficial thing--that is degeneration. Or to live against one's grain, that is degeneration by definition.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

“It's no fun to think about infinity and no cinche to write about it. Again, it helps to look for some human link.”
― William Zinsser

“If I really wanted to say or ask anything important (to her imposing father) I could not trust my tongue to get it right.”
― Lynne Olson, Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour

“Don't just wish someone a good day - do something to make it better for them.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Understand that one of the best ways to build trust, rapport and educate others also happens to be one of the best ways to improve your health and the health of your athletes. Laugh it up!”
― Brett Bartholomew, Conscious Coaching: The Art and Science of Building Buy-In

“Think of punching back and boundary-setting tactics as a flattened S-curve: you’ve accelerated up the slope of a negotiation and hit a plateau that requires you to temporarily stop any progress, escalate or de-escalate the issue acting as the obstacle, and eventually bring the relationship back to a state of rapport and get back on the slope. Taking a positive, constructive approach to conflict involves understanding that the bond is fundamental to any resolution.”
― Chris Voss, Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

“Unless you open up in a relationship, somewhere the doubt or vacuum with linger. So, be a flower, open-up and enjoy a beautiful and blooming relationship.”
― Ramesh Sood

“It's not that you were not able to understand. It's only that I failed to understand how you preferred to understand.”
― Ramesh Sood

“By making an effort to understand people’s actions and beliefs, you may come to realize that your viewpoint is just a drop of all the perspectives. This may help you see through your personal biases and self-centeredness, and you may even strengthen your rapport with others and become people-savvy.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond