Phil Anselmo Quotes

Building relationships. Communicating. Trust. Those are three things I've kind of instilled myself with.

The four of us are really in sync with each other. We're pretty open about most things. We try to respect each other as much as we can. For us, communication is really important.

If you're a coach, and you don't have trust with players, you've got no chance, and your credibility is zero. And that's why it's so important to tell them the truth. If you have something that you're upset about, tell them the truth. If they're doing something wrong, tell them the truth.

The greatest respect you can give your political adversaries is to give them your undivided attention. If you want them to hear you, you have to be willing to hear them.

if we stop talking at one another, and start talking with one another, we can get a lot done.

The more people talk directly to each other, the better. Dialogue is the way of solving issues.

What I've learned - after working for, I guess, some time now - is when you're approaching a relationship like that, like, any working relationship, it's good to be open. To know that someone might have a different way of doing things and listen to them. And hopefully, you come to a common understanding.

Trust brings a higher level of communication and a higher level of commitment and accountability.

Communication is extremely important in any relationship - it makes the relationship that much healthier.

Respect is the most essential thing about captaincy. Respect between the captain and players is important. It is give and take.

Strong alliances can thrive even where disagreements exist, but they cannot thrive where free and open communication is shut down.

The beginning to correcting all of our mistakes is communication.

The amazing thing about a football team is we can disagree and fight like brothers, but then we come back together. We are able to be open and honest about things that may offend us.

For any relationship to survive, one needs excellent communication.

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates', then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

To put as little pressure on the relationship you're in is very important.

The relationship between a client must be 'we.'

The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.

I usually tell people upfront what to expect, and that I really want their feedback and their ideas, and if they think I've got a hair out of place or food stuck in my teeth, gosh, I want to know that.

It's important for couples to be friends first and to respect each other as individuals.

Relationships survive on trust, and if that is broken at any point, it's pretty much the end of the relationship. Besides, inability to communicate leads to problems.

'The Conversation' will hopefully touch on issues that will move people to want to strengthen communication and look to each other for solutions.

It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.

A healthy relationship is built on unwavering trust.

The way you build trust with your team is around super-clear communication in that instant when they say, 'I will be sad if you don't do X.' You have to say, 'We're not going to do X, and here's why, and believe me, you'll be much sadder later if I let you go do it and you spend a bunch of time on it and nothing ever happens.'