Quotes About Respect
Further, we often make the mistake of treating listening as merely waiting for our turn to talk. While other team members are making their points, we're preparing our rebuttal. It takes practice and discipline to withhold the urge to jump in with our opinion and really concentrate on what the other person is saying.
~ Pat MacMillan
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Teammates don't have to be best friends. In fact, the diversity and differences among the individual team members will probably preclude close friendships. However, the relationships must be solid enough to withstand the turbulence of day-to-day interaction, misunderstandings, and an occasional bad day. Solid team relationships provide the climate needed for high levels of cooperation and are characterized by trust, acceptance, respect, understanding, and courtesy.
~ Pat MacMillan
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You're daft,' she said. 'Doan matter what you think of me,' he said generously. 'I'll never think less of you.
~ Unknown
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A horse doesn't care how much you know, until he knows how much you care.
~ Unknown
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Fact is, blatant heterosexuals are all over the place. Supermarkets, movies, on your job, in church, in books, on television every day and night, every place - even in gay bars. & they want gay men & women to go hide in the closets - So to you straight folks i say - Sure, i'll go if you go too but i'm polite so - after you.
~ Unknown
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Money can buy a house, but not a home; a bed, but not rest; food, but not an appetite; medicine, but not health; information, but not wisdom; thrills, but not joy; associates, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; flattery, but not respect.
~ Pat Williams
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So I invite all of you to show our own species the same patience and compassion that we show dogs. After all, dogs seem to like us a lot, and I have the utmost respect for their opinion.
~ Patricia B. McConnell
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Mercy is not a proper Indian name."..........."Rash Coyote Who Runs With Wolf. We could shorten it to Dinner Woman.
~ Patricia Briggs
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My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.
~ Patricia Briggs
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Don't make light of any man's pain.
~ Patricia Briggs
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It is not wise to give something old and powerful something they care about. And I am very old.
~ Patricia Briggs
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But you can't marry someone to fix him, even if you love them.
~ Patricia Briggs
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I was going to have to come up with a rank for myself besides Alpha's mate. In the pack, I was just Mercy- but if ten more people called me the Alpha's mate, I was going to hit someone. It sounded like a chess move.
~ Patricia Briggs
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When we got to the moron who was sitting in the only path to the stairway, Adam caught my waist and lifted me over before stepping over the man himself. "Scott?" Adam said as we headed upstairs. "Yeah?" "Unless someone shoots you, skins you, and throws the results on the floor, I don't want to see you lying in the walkway again." "Yessir!
~ Patricia Briggs
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We'd spent years as adversaries, two predators sharing territory and a certain, unwelcome attraction. Somehow, during all those years I spent outwardly acquiescing to his demands while making sure I held my own, I'd won his respect. I'd had werewolves love me and hate me, but I'd never had one respect me before. Not even Samuel. Adam respected me enough to act on my suspicions. It meant a lot.
~ Patricia Briggs
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Don't try threatening an Alpha. They don't like it.
~ Patricia Briggs
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The Elders were closer to the Maker of All Things and should be deferred to whenever they made their will known.
~ Patricia Briggs
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Do they always flirt with biblical quotes?" Asil asked Tad. In long-suffering tones, Tad said, "They can flirt with the periodic table or a restaurant menu. We've learned to live with it. Get a room, you guys." "Quiet, pup," said Adam with mock sternness. He gave my butt a promissory pat as he said, "Respect your elders.
~ Patricia Briggs
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Over the years, she'd learned not to question him too closely—mostly because he wouldn't answer her.
~ Patricia Briggs
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The trick to staying out of trouble is to keep your nose out of other people's business.
~ Patricia Briggs
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just because one is submissive doesn't make them stupid. My experience has suggested the opposite. We have a saying, 'Listen when the soft ones speak.'" Smith
~ Patricia Briggs
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There's a difference between using someone and asking them for help—which you know very well.
~ Patricia Briggs
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I'm done with it." All hint of softness was gone from his voice. "I am done with listening to you attack my mate while she is trying to save you. Again. I called this meeting to give notice. If I hear or hear about any of you saying anything to my mate that is in the least bit disrespectful, I will end you. No warnings, no second chances. I will end you." - Adam Hauptman
~ Patricia Briggs
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Damn it, Mercy." He didn't like to swear in front of women. I always counted it a personal triumph when I could make him do it.
~ Patricia Briggs
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