Rapport Quotes

“There was one story that anger certainly lit the fuse of. In the 1960's, in my home town of Jackson, the civil rights leader Medgar Evers was murdered on night in darkness and I wrote a story that same night about the murderer (identity unknown) called "Where Is The Voice Coming From?" But all that absorbed me, though it started as outrage, was the necessity I felt for entering into the mind and inside the skin of a character who could hardly have been more alien or repugnant to me. Trying for my utmost, I wrote in the first person. I was wholly vaunting the prerogative of the short-story writer. It is always vaunting, of course, to imagine yourself inside another person, but it is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose. I'm not sure this story was brought off; and I don't believe that my anger showed me anything about human character that my sympathy and rapport never had.”

“Rapport is the link between meeting and communicating.”

“Especially when you're working so closely with people and you have to develop intense relationships, it's great when you have a relationship and a rapport with them.”

“Cater to your customers’ lifestyles. It will create instant rapport and a lasting sense of “I belong here.”

“For me, education—both teaching and learning—is about building relationships and developing rapport with students, with parents, and with faculty.”

“For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.”

“Lordship and rapport are the keys to save us from being combative and make us more attractive in spiritual conversations.”

“Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to.”

“Your Spirit Guides and Angels will never let you down as you build a rapport with them. In the end, they may be the only ones who don't let you down.”