Viggo Mortensen Quotes

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.

Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.

Trust leads to approachability and open communications.

Manners are the lubricating oil of an organization. It is a law of nature that two moving bodies in contact with each other create friction. This is as true for human beings as it is for inanimate objects.

I always talk to all the crew. I always make it pleasant. I always nurture a relationship that makes people feel like they're important, like they're a part of the collaboration. I feel that way about the young actors on set. I don't talk to them like I'm the mentor; I talk to them like they're my peers. And I learned that from Meryl Streep.

I assume that people react to things as I would react. For example, if you are nice to people, they should be nice to you.

I'm nice to everybody, I respect other people. If you respect me, I respect you.

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

What we expect from our drivers, as team mates, is that they show respect for each other and allow one another enough room on the race track.

I think you function much better when you trust people and when you've got a sort of relationship where you can develop ideas within a framework.

The more contact we have with one another and the more we come to understand each other's values, the greater will be our mutual respect.

My experience on this planet is that if you treat people with respect, they tend to treat you with respect.

Common courtesy plays a big role in happy marriages. People who are permanently married are polite to one another. They don't want to hurt one another's feelings, and they don't try to make the other one feel humiliated. People who are married for life are extremely kind to one another.

Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.

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

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

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.

It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.

Discipline and unconditional support is earned by understanding and trust and inclusion. Not by isolation, not by nasty tricks.

When people are nice to me, I'm nice to them.

People treat me nice 'cos I treat them nice.

Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

Treat everyone the way you would want to be treated... this can be applied to any situation.