trust dynamics Quotes

Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater the peril, the greater the disaster. Because to place absolute trust on another human being is in itself a disaster, both ways, since each human being is a ship that must sail its own course, even if it go in company with another ship.... And yet, love is the greatest thing between human beings.

It’s the people you hold closest who have the most power to make you bleed.

Trust has shifted from institutions to individuals.

All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.

Trust is like the air we breathe--when it's present, nobody really notices; when it's absent, everybody notices.

If you don't have trust inside your company, then you can't transfer it to your customers.

Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.

Trust is almost always conditional, focused, qualified, and therefore limited.

Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an individual man earns trust.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It's natural.

The truth is, you can never really know a man until you've loaned him money. And you can never know a woman until you've slept in her bed.

There's a level of trust that you have to have with somebody.

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.

Trust is a fragile thing - difficult to build, easy to break. It cannot be bargained for. Only if it is freely given it can be expected in return

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

Every Indian instinctively trusts a person from Kabul.

Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust.

Strategy is important, but trust is the hidden variable. On paper you can have clarity around your objectives, but in a low-trust environment, your strategy won't be executed.

Many people are blind to trust, not so much to its benefits as to its nature and the practices that make it possible.

Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust another cat because she knows better than we do.

On a team, trust is all about vulnerability, which is difficult for most people.

Trust is hard to get from actors, and for me to give to actors.

When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not yet trust each other.