Brandi Rhodes Quotes

To be successful, it is imperative that you not only know the organizations you work with, but more specifically, you have to know the actual people you work with within these organizations, understand what their personal goals and motivations are. In short, to be successful, you need to humanize your clients.

You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key.

I love to work with performers that are very different to me.

It's important to build trust if you're trying to deal with big things. Big issues require everybody to get outside their comfort zone, and people are more willing to do so if they believe that their partner is sincere in their efforts. And the only way you can do that is to engage them on a personal level.

Whether I am collaborating with different people, I like changing projects conceptually so I can grow.

I just want to listen and build relationships with as many of my colleagues as possible.

Well, then we got to know each other and eventually worked out a bit of idea of management.

I love collaborating with different people.

I had opportunities to stay on shows for long periods of time, and maybe financially that would have been good, but I feel good about trying to keep doing things that are a little bit different than what I've done.

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.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

The main purpose of engaging in conversation can no longer be personal advancement or respectability. Instead, I'd like for us to use conversations to create equality, to open ourselves to strangers, and, most practically, to remake our working world.

I love collaborating with different voices.

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

Without trust, the most essential element of innovation - conflict - becomes impossible.

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

I do enjoy having researchers and writers around me because I am getting a lot of different influences now from the opposite sex, different races, people of different ages, who are helping write the routines. So I am seeing things from other people's perspectives, which I never really had to do before.

Every partner you get is so different, you learn a lot from each of them.

Bring your whole self to work because, that way, you can bring full ideas and the wholeness of your unique abilities.

I can tell you, without diversity, creativity remains stagnant.

I've learned how to trust someone else's ideas with mine.

You have to get under the hood and spend some quality time with someone to understand what they're really good at.

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.

Both labels are super awesome, with super awesome people who want to get stuff done. The biggest difference is that Sub Pop is already established, but working with Burger seems like we're part of something. They're growing, and I'm growing with them. They're my friends, and we're doing it together.

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can't get creative and find alternate solutions if they don't listen to each other. There's a lot of arguing and justifying.