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Quotes About Support

It's easier to persevere on a long journey when you're traveling with a herd.
~ Chip Heath
These moments are strengthened because we share them with others.
~ Chip Heath
Sometimes we think we're gathering information when we're actually fishing for support.
~ Chip Heath
Reinforcement is the secret to getting past the first step of your long journey and on to the second, third, and hundredth steps. And that's a problem, because most of us are terrible rein-forcers. We are quicker to grouse than to praise.
~ Chip Heath
WHAT WE SHOULD learn from urban legends and the Mrs. Johnson trial is that vivid details boost credibility. But what should also be added is that we need to make use of truthful, core details. We need to identify details that are as compelling and human as the "Darth Vader toothbrush" but more meaningful—details that symbolize and support our core idea.
~ Chip Heath
Our relationships are stronger when we perceive that our partners are responsive to us. (The term used frequently is "perceived partner responsiveness.") Responsiveness encompasses three things: Understanding: My partner knows how I see myself and what is important to me. Validation: My partner respects who I am and what I want. Caring: My partner takes active and supportive steps in helping me meet my needs.
~ Chip Heath
High standards + assurance is a powerful formula, but ultimately it's just a statement of expectations. What great mentors do is add two more elements: direction and support. I have high expectations for you and I know you can meet them. So try this new challenge and if you fail, I'll help you recover. That's mentorship in two sentences. It sounds simple, yet it's powerful enough to transform careers.
~ Chip Heath
Love says, "I'm with you, let's deal with it.
~ Chip Ingram
For the eyes of the Lord move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His" (2 Chronicles 16:9 nasb).
~ Chip Ingram
and "What can we do to help keep you fresh and renewed so you can better handle the challenge of dealing with customers all day?" Remember that focus groups can be virtual online, not just face to face.
~ Chip R. Bell
We are really anxious to do all we can to improve our service, and your feedback would be very helpful.
~ Chip R. Bell
Study after study shows that employees leave organizations primarily because of poor relationships with managers, not because of pay, benefits, or other factors. How well you train, coach, empower, and support your people—and whether you show appreciation for the hard work they do each day in the trenches serving customers—makes all the difference not only in retaining your best employees, but also in creating memorable experiences for customers.
~ Chip R. Bell
Invite your customer to take risks in the pursuit of inspired innovation, and be your customer's net when they step onto that high wire.
~ Chip R. Bell
Southern California, they have been amazing. They're totally with us.
~ Chita Rivera
We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter.
~ Chita Rivera
May your heart be mine, may my heart be yours. May your sorrows be mine, may my joys be yours.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Begitu lah kadang2 bila kita terjun ke jurang kehidupan kita.Tidak ada yang bisa menemani kita,bahkan mereka yang mau mengorbankan hati mereka demi kebahagian kita,juga tidak.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
the bird began to carry them to a new life in a new land. We'll be happy ever after, the queen wanted to whisper to her daughter as they flew, but she knew that was not true. Life never is that way. And so instead she held her daughter in silence, heart to heart, and as they traveled each heart drew on the other's strength, so that when they reached their destination they would be ready.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
To see a loved one in pain is more wrenching than to bear that pain yourself.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I guess that's when people call their mothers - when their world is falling apart.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Perhaps that is the miracle of stories. They make us realize that we're not alone in our folly and our suffering.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Most of all we learned to feel without words the sorrows of our sisters, and without words to console them. In this way our lives were not so different from those of the girls we had left behind in our home villages
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I hid my face in my husband's chest, and the tears that I'd held onto for so long burst from me like a storm. Ram's arms came around me, and I felt, on my forehead, his own tears. Thus we crossed from city to forest, from the known world to the unknown.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Yes my Lalita, coming at last into your own, I am praying for you. O spices, o all the forces of the world, do not let her give up. Daughter, the birth passage is always narrow, suffocating. But that first free gulp of air filling the lungs, ah. I pray it for you.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni