Quotes About Trust

Pressure can take many forms: a bribe, a threat, a manipulative appeal to trust, or a simple refusal to budge. In all these cases, the principled response is the same: invite them to state their reasoning, suggest objective criteria you think apply, and refuse to budge except on this basis. Never yield to pressure, only to principle.

the ongoing relationship is far more important than the outcome of any particular negotiation.

If Fred tells you a chicken can pull a freight train, your job is to hook 'em up.

Here have I come to die,' he said, 'and where else could I ask to die but in your arms?

They'd slept together three times, the second time to see whether the first time was just because they'd been too drunk, and the third time to see if being sober the second time had put too much pressure on them.

people don't respond well to being told what they must do.

This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it.

They do not leave home without American Express. ... Blame the moral carelessness that parents pass off as the gift of freedom as they cut their children loose like colorful kites and wish them an exciting flight.

Since it is not the believer who actually heals but Christ, then one healing or miracle is actually no more difficult than another.

Then Jesus therefore said to them plainly, "Lazarus is dead, and I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe; but let us go to him."…So when Jesus came, He found that he had already been in the tomb four days. Christ revealed that the disciples should have their faith strengthened by these events.

At a car dealership, the person who sells the car is the hero, and also gets the commission. But if the mechanics don't service that car well, the customer won't return.

In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.

Some natural skepticism as to the purity of all human motives came and sat upon my chest...

Nobody steals books but your friends.

Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant -you just don't know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you'd mapped out for yourself. Or you can trust your personal demon who delivered that crazy idea in the first place. Trust your demon.

Never offer him or her friendship. You will be used.

Paying attention to her bodily cues would have forced the girl to admit both her fear and her reluctance to let her mother touch her. This pattern of denial, if not stopped, will continue past childhood. As an adult, she may lack the physical boundaries that would protect her from abuse. She will allow herself to be close to people who are not safe. Saddest of all, she won't even trust her senses to know when abuse is occurring.

From the perspective of a narcissist, a person who claims to love them is a fraud, a liar, or blind.

To let go is not to be protective. It's to permit another to face reality.

To let go is to fear less and love myself more.

Unfortunately, however, people don't change by learning more information. The only way to break a bonding pattern is through honest vulnerability.

Adults who were victims of emotional abuse must learn to trust their feelings. Feelings provide us with an immense amount of wisdom and information. Uncomfortable feelings that may have been dangerous to express in our original families are no longer dangerous. We have a right to be angry when someone offends us. Our fear protects us and even our pain helps us grow. For example, fear helps us know when we are in danger.

St. Paul's churches were indigenous churches in the proper sense of the word; and I believe that the secret of their foundation lay in his recognition of the church as a local church (as opposed to our 'national churches') and in his profound belief and trust in the Holy Spirit indwelling his converts and the churches of which they were members, which enabled him to establish them at once with full authority.

Resist fear," Jesus said. "Fear is always in the future. Cut through it. Resist it.