Barack Obama Quotes

You cannot police a community without effectively working with the community.

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.

When you have a fruitful relationship with someone, and you've both chosen to work together, then it can spawn really good things.

By behaving in ways that build trust with one, you build trust with many.

Success in any relationship or endeavor begins with trust.

If everybody trusts one another, then the person who didn't prevail will faithfully execute the decision as if it was their idea.

I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

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.

Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy.

There's a lot of trust being built up. I think we have a lot of work ahead of us.

The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.

I trust the people who are working with me. I delegate.

I believe the better I can write on my own, the better I can be of service in a co-write. The big thing with a co-write is trust, and it's not so much what you get the first time you sit down with that writer. It's the relationship that you build that you're in. So you can trust throwing out all your ideas and how strong you think they might be.

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..

Having the support of our communities is absolutely essential to productive and sustainable crime prevention efforts. While there are law enforcement agencies that have meaningful and transparent relationships with all segments of their communities, it is fair to say that there are other agencies that need to further enhance relationships and build trust within their communities, particularly among disenfranchised segments.

I’m struck that there is one lesson I learned early and then relearned over and over: Trust is the coin of the realm. When trust was in the room, whatever room that was — the family room, the schoolroom, the locker room, the office room, the government room or the military room — good things happened. When trust was not in the room, good things did not happen.

If you don't know each other you spend time doing research together, having dinner, and talking about your lives. You try to find common ground. Once you're shooting, the pressures are so intense; you really want to have a channel of communication open to you already.

In every relationship, you have to be a team.

I fully trust Abbas-Mustan. We have worked together in the past, so I have full faith in them.

I believe chemistry is based on the trust between two performers. What actually works is something intangible - being extremely comfortable in each other's presence.

No matter whom I've worked with, they've always created a great bond with me.