Interpersonal Quotes

• Every interpersonal situation has a solution in which everyone wins.

  Del Close

  Winning, Situation, Solutions

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• Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

  Stephen Covey

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

  Daniel Goleman

  Emotional, Skills, Empathy

  "Sociability: It's all in your mind". Interview with Sharon Jayson, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 24, 2006.

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• Private victories precede public victories.

  Stephen Covey

  Success, Keeping Promises, Victory

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

  Stephen Covey

  Character, Keeping Promises, Personality

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.49, Mango Media Inc.

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• Authority is not a quality one person 'has,' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

  Erich Fromm

  Quality, Looks, Authority

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.108, Open Road Media

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• Were also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.

  Katherine Dunn

  Enough, Publishing, Courses

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• A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

  Stephen Covey

  Business, Insperational, Perfect

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• You're talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something through a digital mechanism than even face to face.

  Erik Qualman

  Communication, Young Generation, Talking

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• The 'Inside-Out' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self, with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

  Stephen Covey

  Character, Mean, Self

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• I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.

  Terry McMillan

  Sibling, Writing, Lovers

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• I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that's necessary for living together and building a community.

  Vincent Nichols

  Communication, Mean, Thinking

  "Facebook and MySpace can lead children to commit suicide, warns Archbishop Nichols" by Jonathan Wynne-Jones, www.telegraph.co.uk. August 1, 2009.

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• Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.

  Richard J. Foster

  Spiritual, And Love, Grows

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• The most constructive solutions are those which take into consideration the views of all persons involved and are acceptable to all. Such outcomes are the result of negotiation strategies where the needs of both sides are considered important and an attempt is made to meet all needs. These solutions are appropriately called Win-Win because there are no losers. While often difficult to arrive at, the process leading to such solutions builds interpersonal relationships, increases motivation and improves commitment. Win-Win solutions are the most desirable outcomes of conflict resolution.

  Gabor Peter

  Motivation, Commitment, Acceptance

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• The average person might articulate them differently, but we all think about interpersonal relationships in one way or another. Writers just express that in different ways and capture it in different ways. To some degree, we're all thinking about the same things. It's the zeitgeist. The trick, in a way, as a writer, is to hope that your interests in some sense link up with the culture around you.

  Jennifer Egan

  Thinking, Average, Degrees

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2016.

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• Willpower determines success in business, interpersonal relationships, health, whatever it is. All the activities in your life, success and failure in them, are dependent upon your ability to manifest will.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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• I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.

  Jane Pauley

  Nbc, People, Gardening

  "Jane Pauley tackles reinvention". The SecondAct Interview, blogs.reuters.com. August 16, 2011.

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• Small changes can magnifiy. The possibility of interpersonal communication has increased substantially with contemporary technology. But as compared with the major changes, which were long ago, these are not huge.

  Noam Chomsky

  Communication, Technology, Long Ago

  "The Secret of Noam: A Chomsky Interview". Interview with Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. March 9, 2011.

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• Promoting health without encouraging others to seek wholeness is an exercise in futility. Not until we realize that our bodies are mirrors of our interpersonal, spiritual, professional, sexual, creative, financial, environmental, mental, and emotional health will we truly heal.

  Lissa Rankin

  Spiritual, Exercise, Emotional

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• We are all born with an innate understanding of interpersonal equity - the idea that if you lend me your rake today, I'll respond in kind when you come to borrow my shovel tomorrow. Or nearly all of us are born with that. Psychopaths aren't.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Ideas, Understanding, Rakes

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• The opposite of interpersonal trust is not mistrust. It is despair. This is because we have given up on believing that trustworthiness and fulfillment are possible from others. We have lost our hope in our fellow humans.

  David Richo

  Believe, Opposites, Despair

  David Richo (2011). “Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

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• Honesty is the best policy in international relations, interpersonal relations, labor, business, education, family and crime control because truth is the only thing that works and the only foundation on which lasting relations can build.

  Ramsey Clark

  Honesty, Foundation, Business Education

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• It is typical for implicit status hierarchies of influence and esteem to emerge in interpersonal encounters, especially those that are goal oriented.

  Susan Fiske

  Goal, Hierarchy, Typical

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• Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong?

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Children, Stress, Kids

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• Recent studies of mindfulness practices reveal that they can result in profound improvements in a range of physiological, mental, and interpersonal domains in our lives. Cardiac, endocrine, and immune functions are improved with mindfulness practices. Empathy, compassion, and interpersonal sensivity seem to be improved. People who come to develop the capacity to pay attention in the present moment without grasping on to their inevitable judgments also develop a deeper sense of well-being and what can be considered a form of mental coherence.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Philosophy, Compassion, Practice

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