Believing in people before they have proved themselves is the key to motivating people to reach their potential.
Energy always flows either toward hope, community, love, generosity, mutual recognition, and spiritual aliveness or it flows toward despair, cynicism, fear that there is not enough, paranoia about the intentions of others, and a desire to control.
Sometimes you've got to # believe in someone else's belief in you until your # belief kicks in.
Look, every institution will make mistakes. I acknowledge we make mistakes, and they can hurt my reputation and our company's. But you also must be willing to let go a little bit, trust others, and not always be so stringent, provided you have robust controls.
Over the years I have found one of my best strengths is my ability to recognise talent and trust them.
I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.
I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
A Warrior trusts other people because, first and foremost, he trusts himself.
You have to have a little faith in people.
One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.
One of the many lessons I hope I've learned is how much I underestimated people, their open-mindedness and their willingness to understand. I think, moreover, I underestimated the degree to which everyone has a story. So my advice, for whatever it's worth, is to trust readers, trust the truth and trust the power of storytelling.
I think that when I'm an actor, I get hired, and you say jump three inches, I'll jump three inches. I just kind of trust what the writer's vision is.
Trust Emmett to find the joke in the destruction of my life.
The ability to delegate begins with believing in the potential of people.
The more confident you are, the more you can let go and believe that the people you've chosen to be in your circle are able to do what they say they're going to do and what they're really good at. It has made me a better band member, too.
People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.
Either we trust in God, and in that case we neither trust in ourselves, nor in our fellow-men, nor in circumstances, nor in anything besides; or we do trust in one or more of these, and in that case do not trust in God.
Faith in people is an a priori requirement for dialogue.
We are only in charge when we are willing to let others take charge.
It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.
I have no interest in behaving or thinking cynically. But it's an easy trap to be cynical about anything, certainly when you're talking about politics or the media.
Look for the best in people to build a fantastic team
When understanding would be too difficult, I become trusting.
Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail.
My optimistic outlook on life is to sort of be positive and take everyone at face value.
