Professional Relationships Quotes:

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.

- Harold Ramis

source: "Harold Ramis: Expect the Unexpected". Psychology Today interview, www.psychologytoday.com. July 1, 1996.

topic: Relationship, Professional Relationships, Enjoy

Building a professional relationship on respect as opposed to affection is a very good idea. Running your art projects the way you'd run a dry-cleaning business is also a really good idea. You shouldn't go into work like you're going on a date, like you're hanging out with friends.

- Penn Jillette

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Running, Art, Ideas, Hanging Out With Friends, Dry Cleaning

Cognitive therapy is based on the idea that when you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel and behave. In other words, if we can learn to think about other people in a more positive and realistic way, it will be far easier to resolve conflicts and develop rewarding personal and professional relationships.

- David D. Burns

source: "Feeling Good Together: The Secret to Making Troubled Relationships Work". Book by David D. Burns, 2008.

topic: Thinking, Ideas, People, Cognitive Therapy, Professional Relationships

We have a professional relationship [with Chancellor Angela Merkel].2016 is the year of the German-Russian youth exchange, so the relations are moving on.

- Vladimir Putin

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: Moving, Years, Youth, Angela, Professional Relationships

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

- George Orwell

source: George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Smothered under journalism, 1946”

topic: Book, Majority, Doe, Professional Relationships

From the Cooperative League, I suppose, with the Depression lingering as long as it did, the next step in terms of, as you call it, professional relationship, was to go to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]. I went there as an assistant field secretary, and so forth. So, I suppose that was the first organized step.

- Ella Baker

source: Source: www.crmvet.org

topic: Long, People, League, Naacp, Lingering

And even though we don't have the professional relationship anymore, the love and friendship we have for each other will remain. He is like a father to me and I hope we both keep succeeding in our careers.

- Gustavo Kuerten

topic: Friendship, Father, Careers, Professional Relationships

More than seven out of 10 people have found The Landmark Forum to be one of life’s most rewarding experiences. To me, this suggests that The Landmark Forum addresses many of people’s most profound concerns how to improve their personal and professional relationships, how to be a more effective person, how to think productively about their life and goals.

- Daniel Yankelovich

topic: Thinking, Goal, People, Landmarks, Rewarding Experiences

There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place to work, the court is unique in its intimacy and intensity.

- Cliff Sloan

topic: Moving, Unique, Law, Supreme Court Justice, Court Justice

Whenever I talk to anyone I care about, I am always seeking approval. There is always a pleading lilt in my voice that demands love. Even the people I work with, the ones I am supposed to have a professional relationship with, all business, get pulled into my need. I can't help it. I want to be adored.

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

source: Elizabeth Wurtzel (2007). “More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

topic: Voice, People, Needs, Professional Relationships

It brings me great grief and sadness to hear of the passing of one of the best and most respected trainers of this era, Emanuel Steward. I learned a lot from him during our professional relationship and I will be forever grateful for his help during that time. We were also friends and I know I am going to miss him as so many others will too. He was an important part of our boxing community.

- Oscar De La Hoya

topic: Grateful, Grief, Sadness, Forever Grateful, Professional Relationships