Stephen Covey Quotes

Engagement and integrity are the two most fundamental aspects of building trust; lead from the front by evolving your company strategy, then live your values every day.

There's a question of building trust, and I think that President Barack Obama offers trust. Personally, I think he is a transparent individual with the right intentions. So I think things are going to change in terms of U.S. foreign policy, especially with respect to Latin America.

Billy squinted at me. "Why are you letting them go?" "Because they're real." "How do you know?" "The one I was holding crapped on my hand.

We like people who are honest. Honest in argument, honest with clients, honest with suppliers, honest with the company - and above all, honest with consumers.

Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)

If you know somebody very well, like your grandmother or your baby sister, you will know when they are real and when they are fake.

Knowing when someone's the real deal or not, but still with putting your guard up and self-protecting, you've got to stay open. It comes back to balance.

In intimate relationships, if we start trying to be more real, it's very scary.

In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.

To touch on people's lives [ in a way they ] haven't been touched on before, it´s fascianting. You know, it's one thing if [ a celebrity ] has an incredible character and you're really going to be able to delve into their personality – that's great. But you can never get real purity if people have been spoiled by the camera and don't trust you. I like feeling that I'm able to be a voice for those people who aren't famous, the people that don't have the great opportunities.

What is the thing you want most from me? What can I do to make you love me?' Be yourself,' said Ipek.

Trust happens when leaders are transparent.

Revealing yourself, physically or emotionally, to cast and crew is frequently uncomfortable. But it is essential if you want to to tell the truth. I felt more at ease being bold with some than I did with others. I was incredibly fortunate to have worked with Randy Harrison as Justin Taylor. We share enough taste in music and art to have had a real camaraderie, and luckily that evolved into a deep friendship.

Leaders must display their humanness. Those under their authority must be empowered & have the courage to engage in honest dialogue.

Nurture your own confidence and make it real; don't pretend to be someone you're not.

It's a daunting thing to be playing a real person and to have contact with her and meet her and be in her circle a little bit. It's an odd thing. There's so much responsibility to tell the story honestly and truthfully, and at the same time, you start to develop a friendship with this person - or I did.

I don't know if people really know, when you shoot a TV show like you're really family and it really works, it's because it seems real to everybody, even to us. We were all so very close.

The first great real intimacy between two people begins when secrets are told.

To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered. Just being nice was not enough.

In anything really, it's finding the reality. You can't be 'real,' but you can create a reality. And that created reality is what the audience believes in. And that's essential. Because if the audience doesn't believe that, they're never going to trust you. And if they don't trust you, you can't lead them up the mountain.

Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything.

Team members who are not genuinely open with one another about their mistakes and weaknesses make it impossible to build a foundation for trust.