Quotes About Relationships

Okay, so, sometimes in life, I can be a score-keeper - someone who keeps track of what he gives and what he gets in return. An annoying quality, to say the least, and I'm sure my wife has your sympathy, but it's made me highly attuned to when and where credit is due.

we have two families in life. The one we're born with that shares our blood. Another we meet along the way that's willing to give its blood for us.

IF YOU HAVE TO HIDE YOUR TRUE FEELINGS FROM YOUR FRIENDS, THEY'RE NOT YOUR FRIENDS.

I spent my whole life protecting you and for what? So you could play Twister with your girlfriend while I'm the Freak of the Week?!

It's not about who wins or loses, what you score, or how much money you make that matters in the end. It's not about fame, fortune, or vanity. What matters most are the friendships you forge, how you care for and love those who share the journey with you, and how many others you help along the way. That's what lasts. That's how you'll be remembered. You can bet on it.

We have two families in life. One were born with that shares our blood. Another we meet along the way that's willing to give it's life for us.

Life is not random. There are no coincidences. Human beings are more than mere molecules bouncing around life without reason. We bounce around life with a purpose. We are meant to bounce off specific other human beings during our lives, other human beings who will change the content and course of our lives. We are meant to be exactly who we are.

How could he face his wife as a loser?

to pay for pussy, there wouldn't be enough members left in the chamber of commerce to play gin.

Ben had kept up with his son all this time. But his son had never returned his calls or come to visit, convinced that at his age he no longer needed a father. He was wrong.

even buying a user's manual—The Female Orgasm—and learned to his dismay that writing twenty-five thousand lines of code was cake compared to bringing a full-grown female to orgasm.

Why didn't women come with a freaking Error Message box?

Life is not random. There are no coincidences. Human beings are more than mere molecules bouncing around life without reason. We bounce around life with a purpose. We are meant to bounce off specific other human beings during our lives, other human beings who will change the content and course of our lives.

you're not going to find true love in the personals.

Life is about family and technology.

To strengthen your interpersonal influence, don't win arguments. Instead, win hearts and minds.

Remember: You can't always change the people around you. But you can change the people you're around.

Questioning works better than telling. That's why Will didn't tell Evan, "Don't let your friends get you into trouble." Instead, he asked questions that made Evan think, "Who's likely to get into trouble, and what should I do if it happens?" In other words, Will didn't talk down to Evan, or talk at him. Instead, the two talked side by side emotionally as well as physically.

If you want to have an interesting dinner conversation, be interested. If you want to have interesting things to write, be interested. If you want to meet interesting people, be interested in the people you meet—their lives, their history, their story. Where are they from? How did they get here? What have they learned? By practicing the art of being interested, the majority of people can become fascinating teachers; nearly everyone has an interesting story to tell.

you will deal, every day, with people who have "mirror neuron gaps" because the world isn't giving back to them what they're putting out. (My guess, in fact, is that this is a nearly universal condition of humankind.) Understanding a person's hunger and responding to it is one of the most potent tools you'll ever discover for getting through to anyone you meet in business or your personal life.

An ounce of apology is worth a pound of resentment

Good clients and customers raise the bar. Bad ones just keep hitting you over the head with it.

3. Realize that the crazy behavior isn't about you. Instead, it's all about the person you're dealing with.

To succeed in your career, it's less important what you know or even who you know than who truly knows you and how they know you. —IVAN MISNER, FOUNDER, BNI