A Quote by Christopher Voss

There is great power in deference. Deference works with everybody.

Christopher Voss

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Deference Everybody Great Great Power Power Works

Quote Author

Christopher Voss
American - Businessman

What I find is with all due deference to - deference to our male colleagues, that women's styles tend to be more collaborative.

Susan Collins

I just think that we show an awful lot of deference to chefs in our culture and maybe not enough deference to customers.

Pete Wells

There's great power in deference. You ask somebody 'what' or 'how' questions. People love to be asked how to do something. They feel powerful, and from a deferential position, you've actually granted that power, and you're the one that now actually has the upper hand in the conversation.

Christopher Voss

Great men always pay deference to greater.

Walter Savage Landor

Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.

Theodor Adorno

The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.

Warren E. Burger

If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.

Karl Popper

We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.

Angelo Scola

The death of deference seems to be general at the moment, so everybody has to earn their reputation and trust all over again. You don't just get it by virtue of being a professor or a politician or anybody else.

Duncan Green

With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations.

Ashleigh Brilliant

A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.

William Shenstone

Deference and intimacy live far apart.

Moliere

People who expect deference resent mere civility.

Mason Cooley

Bin Laden was intelligent, well-informed, and low key. The people around him treated him with great deference, calling him 'sheikh,' a term of respect.