Mirai Nagasu Quotes

I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players.

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.

Working with people is what I like to do. I don't feel intimidated. I always go in prepared. When you're not prepared, that's when you feel uncomfortable.

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

But I think that sensitivity is also a good counsellor when it comes to enforcing one's interests.

This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.

I believe you can work with anybody.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Communication between band-mates is imperative. Communication is the key to any healthy relationship. If I need to be checked, I expect to hear it put in plain words what my faults are, and give my band-mates the ultimate consideration by shutting up and listening, then acting on the advice given. Same goes for anyone else in any band.

You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.

When I'm hiring leaders, I pay a lot of attention to what their peers and what people who report to them say about them. We want people who relate well with their peers and cooperate in an exchange of information rather than being overly competitive.

I play well with everybody.

Help is a conversation. If one side talks too much, the other side will get bored. So make sure you help back when you can.

I can be a good listener. I can ask the right questions a lot of the time.

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.

In a leadership role in Iraq and in running my own business, what I've learned is if you don't listen, you're going to strike out. You're going to fail miserably. The people you work with have got to know you're engaged and you're listening.

She was a genius at listening.

We don’t need a speaker; we need a listener!

In my mind, a good leader would say, 'OK, I need to sit down and talk to the guys who oppose me. Let me let them voice their opinions; let me get their thought process.'

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.

There is no one who is present all the time, but you work on becoming present when you are interacting with people who are working for you, being able to hear them without a sense of threat, to go into those meetings with confidence and not arrogance.

Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.

I don't remember threatening anybody, ever. I don't like threats. I don't respond well to them, so I don't give them. But I'm not a doormat. I try to meet the appropriate level of communications.

I'm a pretty good listener.

If there is anything I wanted to learn in Europe, it was how I could be more of a team player.