Workplace Connections Quotes

Everyone who was here [Sheraton Universal Hotel] when I won still works here, so the two biggest moments in my career are intersecting. It's so cool that I can say "hi" to everybody.

For many of us, work is the one place where we feel appreciated. The things that we long to experience at home - pride in our accomplishments, laughter and fun, relationships that aren't complex - we sometimes experience most often in the office. Bosses applaud us when we do a good job. Co-workers become a kind of family we feel we fit into.

What could be better than working with people you love?

It was a great way to work. In those days, you had to be there. It was your world. It was your club. Your friends were there, your associates were there, your security was there.

You'll always be close to somebody that you worked with very intimately for so long, and you become really fond of each other.

When you're in your twenties in a new city where no one's from here, we're all sort of orphans. The only people that you can count on our bunch of people that you work with and that you know. You're only as good as the reliability of that latticework.

You have to understand that during the course of our show, we were a family for five hours a day, five days a week, maybe four days a week. And we experienced the same things that we experienced in our own family.

I went to work with a guy named Matt Fuller, who was a Mothers fan, and low and behold, Arthur was working for him also. We worked together for about six months and decided to strike out on our own.

How do you change the world? Bring people together. Where is the easiest big place to bring people together? In the work environment.

I've never been with a group of people for that long. I mean, even my family I don't think I know as intimately as the people I worked with on 'West Wing.'

When you work alongside somebody day in and day out, the relationships tend to be wonderful: they're lifelong.

I think making friends you can work with is a skill like any other, developing those particular kinds of intimacies. They're intimacies like any other, but they grow in a definite direction, not just willy-nilly like normal friendships.

I'm lucky to have worked with all the people that I have, and I really love what I do, and that is very important, too.

Every job that you have might not be the perfect job, but you really take away different things, and you create relationships.

I make my relationships at work.

Well, I think that a lot of times when you're working on a film, there aren't really opportunities to get to know all the people you have to work with.

It's so nice when you go on to a job and you've worked with someone before.

Part of your purpose in life is to build strong and fruitful relationships with others, and your work setting is a perfect place to start.

[The White House staff] start bringing in their kids, who you think should be babies and now are in second grade or something, and you've watched them grow up. So I think what ends up happening is you end up maintaining those networks and those contacts, but the concentrated interactions and experience that you have here, I don't think, I don't expect you can duplicate anyplace else.