Titus Welliver Quotes

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Ever since I was a kid, I've known I could talk to people.

I was a bartender for four years, and that was the best training that I had for learning how to approach people.

I'm good at picking friends.

I'm engaged: I'm interested in other people. I think that's just as important as knowing how to do the job.

That's probably a problem for some people in this business, they don't like to listen.

In elementary school, we should teach nonviolent conflict resolution and healthy communication skills, which will help children cope with issues like rejection and sexuality later in life.

In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills.

I can be a good listener. I can ask the right questions a lot of the time.

My strengths, I think, are that I deal really well with people. I like people. I'm fascinated by how they work so I'm good at handling situations between departments on set or pre-production or post.

You can put my dad in any situation and he's going to figure it out. He's going to figure the people out and how to get along, how to make everyone comfortable.

I feel like I've always been a great mediator.

I'd like to think my strengths are in connecting with people and the relationship aspect of this business.

You tend to relate to the other person better if you understand their professional needs.

I get along very well with people - that's both an advantage and a disadvantage.

Negotiation is empathy. It's almost trite to say that if you can't put yourself in the seat of the other person you're speaking with, you're not going to do well. It's not about being a bully, not about making offers people can't refuse.

I think I'm a pretty good listener.

Having the ability to relate to people is such an important part of management and leadership.

You've got to be able to know someone really well to be able to have a row and then also walk away from it and not have it matter, especially in this business. That doesn't mean to say we have many rows but I think the nearest thing to a row would be just flatly disagreeing with something .

Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.

I'm a very friendly person, and I think that's had a big impact on my work because I tend to be pretty good with not trying to always win every argument and things like that. I just sort of try to bring a lot of people together to talk.

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

I don't have problems with people, because if I do, I address it.

But I think that sensitivity is also a good counsellor when it comes to enforcing one's interests.

My career was always about working with people, and understanding issues and problems and helping them to solve those issues and problems. How you deal with people - that's what diplomacy is all about. So while I'm not a career diplomat, many of the skills I had seemed to directly translate into the diplomatic arena.