Christopher Voss Quotes

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.

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

It's all about the director for me; we have to click. It's a trust thing. I'll say I'm ready to let down my walls. I'll cry for you as long as you need. But you're going to have to hug me afterwards.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

My work is about the establishment of trust. For someone to share their authenticity with me is a soul-to-soul thing. It's not a lens-to-soul thing.

The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It's just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.

I love when you get to work with people you know because there's so much more trust, and you're much more willing to be vulnerable in a scene with someone you trust.

Relationships are personal, even in business, so sharing some of yourself and taking an interest in others helps to build trust and break down walls.

I'm not gonna say something unless I really feel comfortable around you. Unless I feel like I know you, I'm not gonna really open up.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

If I create anything, I create the atmosphere of trust and openness.

I think a good relationship that Mexico could maintain with the United States and vice versa should be based on trust, on opening - openness and constant dialogue that would allow us essentially to define, share objectives and to work towards those so as to avoid activities which are not known to the other government.

Trust cannot be commanded; and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust.

Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?

The one great thing about a continuing collaboration is that they know you. And if you're really lucky, they really believe in you and think that your talent has some unending bounds to it.

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.

Trust leads to approachability and open communications.

You will succeed only if you first build trust. It's like wolves. They show each other their necks and don't bite.

The more you trust, the more you create trust..

Trust is fundamental, reciprocal and, ideally, pervasive. If it is present, anything is possible. If it is absent, nothing is possible. The best leaders trust their followers with the truth, and you know what happens as a result? Their followers trust them back. With that bond, they can do big, hard things together, changing the world for the better.