Alles, was wir von jemandem möchten, sollte eine WinWin Situation sein

Kritisieren, urteilen und klagen Sie nicht

Kein Mensch beschuldigt sich selbst, mag er auch noch so sehr im Unrecht sein

Kritik ist nutzlos, denn sie drängt den anderen in die Defensive, kränkt sein Selbstbewusstsein

So sehr wir nach Anerkennung dürsten, so sehr fürchten wir Kritik

Beleidige niemanden und mache niemanden lächerlich, es bringt dem anderen unmut und dir gar nichts

Richtet nicht über sie, unter ähnlichen Umständen würden wir uns wahrscheinlich auch nicht anderes verhalten

"Jeder kümmere sich um den eigenen Schnee, nicht um das Eis auf dem Dach des Nachbarn" chinesisches Sprichwort

Kritik schürt Groll, der über lange Jahre anhalten kann

Jeder Narr kann kritisieren, urteilen, reklamieren, und die meisten Narren tuen es auch, aber um zu verstehen, zu verzeihen, braucht es Charakter und Selbstbeherrschung

"ich sage über niemanden etwas Schlechtes, und nur über jeden alles Gute dass ich über ihn weiß," Benjamin Franklin

"die Größe eines großen Mannes, zeigt sich darin, wie er die kleinen behandelt" Carlyle

Geben Sie ehrliche und aufrichtig gemeinte Anerkennung

Der stärkste trieb des Menschen, ist der, bedeutend zu sein

Wecken Sie in anderen lebhafte Wünsche

Interessieren Sie sich aufrichtig für die anderen

Ich betrachte die Fähigkeit Menschen zu begeistern als meinen größten Vorteil, durch Aufmunterung und Anerkennung kann man in Menschen die besten Kräfte mobilisieren. Nichts tötet hingegen seinen Ehrgeiz so gründlich wie Kritik von Vorgesetzten.

Ich kritisiere nie jemanden. Ich glaube dass man die Menschen zur Arbeit anspornen muss, deshalb lobe ich ebenso gerne wie ich ungern tadle. Wenn ich mit einer Leistung zufrieden so anerkenne ich sie aufrichtig und gehe großzügig mit Lob um

Zolle anderen im Alltag Anerkennung (Partner, Freunde, Mitarbeiter, Verkäufer...)

Ein Mensch ist bereit, etwas zu tun, wenn es ihm einen Vorteil bringt

Wenn du etwas von jemandem möchtest, frage dich was er möchte und wie das mit deinem Wunsch in Einklang zu bringen ist

Vorwürfe bringen niemanden dazu, etwas zu tun, das er nicht möchte

Wecke in ihm das Bedürfnis, das es ihm etwas bringt

Sometimes you're not sure about a player. Sometimes you doubt. Sometimes you have to guess. Sometimes... you just know.

When aspiring writers ask me about how they should target their writing, I tell them to pay no attention to that kind of thing. It will restrict you. You will end up falling into stereotypes in an effort to tailor your work toward a perceived genre category.

I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.

Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.

We have to shore this thing up like a New Orleans levy.

I'd been writing stories since I was a child. I wrote little books for my mom and bound them myself with needle and thread. Mostly, they were about my pets.

The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.

Some people think I am gay, which I think is awesome.

But if there must be an end, let it be loud. Let it be bloody. Better to burn than to wither away in the dark.

I'm not a machine. I get really motivated, then I fall off the wagon and want to eat Chinese food and sit on my couch and gain five or 10 pounds!

You can’t be yourself within jealousy.

Film directing has perfected my theater directing. I think when I first started directing, a lot of my stuff was very lateral; I was afraid to have the actors' backs turned away, afraid to put them too far upstage, and I think once I did more things with film, I got more interested in composition.

What's interesting to me is the fact that creatively, I can do anything now and people will pay attention, and if I suck, hopefully they will stop paying attention very quickly, but if I'm good, then I have my foot in the door, and people have paid attention, and I did a good job, and people are like, 'Oh, wow!'

One thing that I notice that is changing, you don't see kids on Sunday. Most of them are home. The kids are having much more virtual childhoods instead of childhoods. They don't play ball or hang out with the wrong people or get in fistfights, all the things that once made childhood. I don't know how it's going to turn out.

We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.

'My Fair Lady' will never get old for me.

One of my biggest pet peeves is when a guy's wearing flip-flop sandals, which I don't understand. Men's feet are disgusting to begin with, but now they're on display when I try to go out for a nice steak at a restaurant, and I have to sit there and look at some guy's hoof? I don't get it. I don't understand it.

I was a tomboy right from the time I was a kid and loved to be like that. I'd hate all the girlie things. Well my best friends as a kid have been boys. I get along best with the opposite sex. I guess that's the case with most people though!

I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.

I was at a rough high school where admitting you were an actor didn't go down well.

My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.

Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Hatred is the air I breathe. It permeates every cell in my body.

Listen to advice but follow your heart.