Quotes About Relationships

Jobs's overwrought reaction was understandable. Sculley had once been a father figure to him. So had Mike Markkula. So had Arthur Rock. That week all three had abandoned him.

When he hurt people, it was not because he was lacking in emotional awareness. Quite the contrary: He could size people up, understand their inner thoughts, and know how to relate to them, cajole them, or hurt them at will.

When one early employee wanted to see the company's organization chart, Noyce made an X in the center of a page and then drew a bunch of other Xs around it, with lines leading to each. The employee was at the center, and the others were people he would be dealing with.

There was another reason that Joanne was balky about signing the adoption papers. Her father was about to die, and she planned to marry Jandali soon after.

each moment is not distinct but instead contains connections to a narrative.

sometimes tearing up at the memory, that once they were married

You've got to make a new set of friends and interact with a new set of prejudices every time.

Instead, Franklin found "a good and faithful helpmate" who was frugal and practical and devoid of pretensions, traits that he later noted were far more valuable to a rising tradesman.

Jobs could be charming to people he hated just as easily as he could be insulting to people he liked.

summer of 1989, he asked her to marry him. She couldn't do it. It would drive her crazy, she told friends. She had grown up in a volatile household, and her relationship with Jobs bore too many similarities to that environment. They were opposites who attracted

I studied the relationship of their motions to their emotions. When I saw the hint of a smile come across someone's lips, I tried to fathom her inner mysteries.

Caring deeply about someone who seemed incapable of caring was a particular kind of hell that she wouldn't wish on anyone, she said.

Las matemáticas tienen algo en común con la poesía —dijo tiempo después—. Están formadas por relaciones verdaderas, pasos verdaderos, deducciones verdaderas, y eso hace que sean hermosas.

He had let it be known that he believed that men and women were not naturally monogamous.

Indeed, most of their letters mixed romantic effusions with scientific enthusiasms, often with an emphasis on the latter.

In-person interactions are especially important in the initial brainstorming of new ideas and the forging of personal bonds.

He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

So as he grew old, he was not only respected and revered by his colleagues, he was loved.

Friends were surprised that a sensuous and handsome man such as Einstein, who could have almost any woman fall for him, would find himself with a short and plain Serbian who had a limp and exuded an air of melancholy. "I would never be brave enough to marry a woman unless she were absolutely healthy," a fellow student said to him. Einstein replied, "But she has such a lovely voice.

Would you win the hearts of others, you must not seem to vie with them, but to admire them. Give them every opportunity of displaying their own qualifications, and when you have indulged their vanity, they will praise you in turn and prefer you above others . . . Such is the vanity of mankind that minding what others say is a much surer way of pleasing them than talking well ourselves."6

Tengo semejante fe en el ser humano que creo que hablar con las personas es mucho más importante que esforzarse en averiguar qué es lo que quieren hacer

Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being

Kissinger once said of Israel's Moshe Dayan that he was "a brilliant manipulator of people and yet emotionally dependent on them.

Eisenhower instinctively felt that the gossamer tissue of personal relationships counted for far more than the formal architecture of his table of organization in determining the success or failure of his command. "The problem of establishing unity in any allied command," he explained to Lord Louis Mountbatten, "involves the human equation.