Jeremy Corbyn Quotes

I make my relationships at work.

Any good director, and I've worked with a few that I would call very good, they know how to disarm any anxieties very quickly.

People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers.

I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.

I wanna work with good people. I don't want to work with screaming, yelling directors who've got daddy issues. I just don't want to deal with those guys.

Sometimes I had bad behaviour with managers that I loved at Sampdoria, like Vujadin Boskov and Sven-Goran Eriksson. I understand that this can happen during the game or when you are substituted.

I hate when people talk about certain guys and say they can't work together.

There must be some tensions in a team, which you can't always wipe away or smooth over.

As you develop relationships in your team you have to learn how your teammates react to being yelled at or how to put your arm around them and show them how to do things. You have to build those relationships up and understand who that person is and how they respond and choose your way to lead them to hopefully help everyone out.

In beach volleyball, there are only two of you on the court, so it's so easy for things to go south and take everything personal.

Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.

On great teams - the kind where people trust each other, engage in open conflict, and then commit to decisions - team members have the courage and confidence to confront one another when they see something that isn't serving the team.

I find it very difficult to work with people I don't like; I can't do that.

Actors tend to be quite good at getting on with people. If you’re an arsehole, people don’t want to work with you. You won’t get hired Well, there are a few arseholes.

[For constructive conflict,] we have to resist the neurobiological drive which means that we really prefer people mostly like ourselves.

You can work well with people that you may not get on well with in life because it's a parallel realism.

I've always strived to maintain a very healthy, friendly working situation, and lo and behold, it only took forty years, so the next sixty are looking bright. You're dealing with human beings on the cutting edge, and there's bound to be tension. You have to be make room for that, and you can't be too unreasonable, because that's everybody else's role.

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 .

If someone is difficult to talk to, if someone cannot communicate clearly, it's a real problem in terms of their likelihood to work out.

I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful.

If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork.

A man can't be in the space where there is feminine rage and bitterness. He doesn't know how to navigate it.

I can mostly laugh at myself and this whole mess called "Linux developers," which means that I get along with most people and most people get along with me.

There may be no single thing more important in our efforts to achieve meaningful work and fulfilling relationships than to learn to practice the art of communication.

One aspect of a successful relationship is not just how compatible you are, but how you deal with your incompatibility.