Getting Along Quotes - Page 2

• It is well worth remembering that the customer is the most important factor in any business. If you don't think so, try getting along without him for a while.

  Napoleon Hill

  Thinking, Service Culture, Important

  Napoleon Hill (2009). “How To Sell Your Way Through Life”, p.148, John Wiley and Sons

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• I've noticed that the magic getting along with someone isn't really magic. If you break it down, you can see how it happens. You say something a bit off-center and see if they react. If they get it, they push it a bit further. Then it's your turn again. And theirs. And so on, until it's banter. Once it's banter, it's friendship.

  Meg Rosoff

  Magic, Break, Banter

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• I loathe conflict, and I loathe not getting along well with people, so I always try very hard to be on the best terms with the people I work with.

  Joan Collins

  People, Trying, Conflict

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• You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of 'getting along.'

  John Shelby Spong

  Mean, Police, Different

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• As long as you're getting along, it's nice to work with someone you know well.

  Luke Wilson

  Work, Nice, Long

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• Every time I mention her, Magnus says, "Are you two getting along?" in raised, hopeful tones, like we're endangered pandas who need to make a baby.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Baby, Two, Hopeful

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• People getting along doesn't sell very well in the news. I find that to be deeply depressing. I don't even talk about it on stage, because it would take too long to explain.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Depressing, Long, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

  Jesse Jackson

  Leadership, Challenges, Vision

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• We only have this one planet; we got to figure out how to live on it without destroying it. So much of cultures not getting along is because of religion. If each religion's deity is the right one to them, then whose is right and whose is wrong? No one has the proof, so we need to figure out how to work through it

  Tricia Helfer

  Deities, Needs, Culture

  "Actress/Producer Tricia Helfer: On Yoga and Being a Stress Cadet". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Jamie: "I didn't want anybody to be weird around me." Landon: "Including me?" Jamie: "Especially you! You know, I was getting along with everything fine. I accepted it, and then you happened!"

  Nicholas Sparks

  Want, Accepted, Jamie

  "A Walk to Remember". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• When I've got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along.

  Bill Shankly

  League, Looks, Tables

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• Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Women, Memorable, Important

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• If you watch the show and the characters don't look at each other while they're talking, the actors probably aren't getting along.

  Victoria Pratt

  Character, Talking, Watches

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• Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.

  John Ruskin

  Goddess, Virtue

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• We're getting along so well; I trust you so much for this one second that I'm going to let you yank on me.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  I Trust You, Wells

  Robert M. Sapolsky (2007). “A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is like walking along a crowded street--there always seem to be fewer obstacles to getting along on the opposite pavement--and yet, if one crosses over, matters are rarely mended.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Opposites, Matter

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley (1900). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”

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• A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Ideas

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• One nice thing about my momma is, she never gets on you for what you are not doing. I mean, she never looks away from the things you do only to notice what isn't on the plan. This is the most important thing in getting along with...anybody, and I can tell you because I copy it from her and it makes good sense. You don't go looking at the things people don't do, when they already be doing plenty in other areas. If your son collects stamps, why you want to go fussing at him because he doesn't play the clarinet? Check out his stamps, man.

  Bruce Brooks

  Nice, Mean, Son

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• What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting along without them, of course, dealing with the hours and days that now accrue so quickly, and, unless they divined this somehow in advance, they don't know that we don't want this inexorable onslaught of breakfasts and phone calls and going to the bank, all this stepping along, because we don't want anything extraneous to get in the way of what we feel about them or the ways we want to hold them in mind.

  Roger Angell

  Phones, Mind, Breakfast

  "Over the Wall" by Roger Angell, www.newyorker.com. November 19, 2012.

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• That's the most important thing, to get along with people. When you feel like you click with them. That's more important even then what their background is or what they've done before, how good they are, how new they are or whatever. All that stuff is really secondary to just getting along with the person.

  Black Francis

  People, Important, Done

  Source: thequietus.com

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• . . .a sense of humor can be a great help-particularly a sense of humor about (oneself). William Howard Taft joked about his own corpulence and people loved it; took nothing from his inherent dignity. Lincoln eased tense moments with bawdy stories, and often poked fun at himself-and history honors him for this human quality. A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Art, Fun, Communication

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• Sometimes I have a tough time getting along with myself. When I was a child, I needed a lot of attention... and I don't have a small ego. For me, appearing on a stage or presenting a cake is the same thing. You need a crowd around you to do it.

  Ron Ben-Israel

  Children, Cake, Tough Times

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• I feel like people have more in common than the news reports. People getting along doesn't sell very well in the news. I find that to be deeply depressing. I don't even talk about it on stage, because it would take too long to explain. I'd have to spend an hour on it to get people to understand what I'm saying because it's so instantly polarizing. Because cable news has kind of set up a construct where you're for or against something immediately. So if I said something about it, people would be for or against me immediately. And I don't want that.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Depressing, Long, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Solitary people, these book lovers. I think it's swell that there are people you don't have to worry about when you don't see them for a long time, you don't have to wonder what they do, how they're getting along with themselves. You just know that they're all right, and probably doing something they like.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Book, Thinking, Long

  Helen Oyeyemi (2011). “Mr Fox”, p.202, Pan Macmillan

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• I wanted to capture time through how food and I were getting along at any given moment. That necessitated writing some dark stuff, some sad stuff, and a lot of painful memories, because my life has often been dark, sad, and painful. I didn't want to sugarcoat anything.

  Kate Christensen

  Memories, Writing, Dark

  Source: therumpus.net

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