Thom Mayne Quotes

Working with different people anyway is like life and meeting different people... as long as you can be empathetic, you can take a bit of them on and see what you can do to help their process. That said, my relationship with Woody Allen was trying to hang on his every word so that I could tell everybody what he said afterwards. But certainly, he was a very good example of somebody who you didn't hear talk above a very low volume for the entire time he was on-set.

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

On land, you can walk away from people, from unpleasant situations. But when you're on a ship for 14 months with 49 other people, if you don't resolve your issues it literally could mean - and this would be an extreme circumstance - the sinking of the ship. You learn a lot about other people. You learn a lot about yourself.

The ABC's are attitude, behavior and communication skills.

I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people.

I didn't know how to get along with others. I didn't even know how to be in the same room with other people. Then, after a while, you learn.

It's funny that through learning how to physically fight, you also learn how to navigate really complicated and hard conversations with people.

Students who learn to collaborate and negotiate - on Capitol Hill, in the board room, in everyday life - will outperform peers who have higher test scores.

It was a very easy way to have a group of friends on a very large campus - a sense of identity. It was a great place to learn how to navigate a variety of personalities, which you kind of have to do in life. You've got the shy woman and you've got the obnoxious woman and you've got the brainiac and you've got the social climber and you've got the introvert and the extrovert, and you're all living together. I think it gave me valuable experience in learning how to live with people that are different than you are. And that's an important lesson. You can bet it comes in very handy in the Senate.

The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.

I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life.

What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the human brain to have and monitor social interactions.

I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that's necessary for living together and building a community.

I won't mention names, but in my career, the most talented people invariably are the easiest and nicest to get along with.

Exceptional employees don't possess God-given personality traits; they rely on simple, everyday EQ skills that anyone can incorporate into their repertoire.

I play well with everybody.

All over the world when you test men and women for facial cue recognition, women test... better. It's a negotiation tool.

Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.

I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure.

What makes us really, truly successful over the long term has a ton to do with our social interactions and the influence we do or don't have with other people.

Maybe almost 20 years ago, I was like, 'God, I need to be more direct.' And I found times that I could practice it when it was maybe not my family or friends or co-workers. It's a quality that's rarely disliked.