Quotes About Partnership

There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.

Patients possess a body of knowledge about themselves that we can never hope to master, and we have a body of knowledge about medicine that they can never hope to master. Our job is to bring these two groups together so we can serve each other well.

If we go into the visit with both parties knowing what's going on, then we can spend the visit talking about what we do about it.

it is this integration between the worlds of the patient and the clinician that carries the most promise.

people working collaboratively with technology are far more effective than either people or technology alone.

They will, on the one hand, have sex with just about anything that moves, given an easy chance, like males in a low-MPI species. On the other hand, when it comes to finding a female for a long-term joint venture, discretion makes sense; males can undertake only so many ventures over a lifetime, so the genes that the partner brings to the project—genes for robustness, brains, whatever—are worth scrutinizing. The

So the firm essentially consisted of Juan Arenas and me, and since we had hardly anything to do and we liked to talk, we spent most of the day talking. At night he would give me a ride home and as we crossed a Mexico City like a fading nightmare, I would sometimes think that Juan Arenas was my happier reincarnation.

As A general rule, people marry most hapily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is.

studies show that when a woman leaves one partner for another, she invariably moves up the scale to a better compromise

older women often 'fit in' a stable homo-sexual relationship between successive heterosexual ones

Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are willing to surrender for his sake. Make no mistake; each partner gives up something. Individual dreams are surrendered for a shared one.

You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick

Many great ideas are not unique. They only become unique when the men who have the wherewithal actually to implement them come together.

Your mother was a good mate for Fitz. She gave him what he needed. But this is the woman I would have chosen for us.

We've the world to save, you and I.

In Africa we having a saying, 'If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.' ...Before I go back home, I want you to consider us, Katie. Ponder what it would be like if we went together. Not alone and fast but together and far.

Do you think it's possible to finally decide that you really, truly love someone but not end up marrying him?

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

Appreciation is a big component of a succesful marriage.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

In a garden, food arises from partnership. If I don't pick rocks and pull weeds, I'm not fulfilling my end of the bargain. I can do these thing with my handy opposable thumb and capacity to use tools, to shovel manure. But I can no more create a tomato or embroider a trellis in beans than I can turn lead into gold. That is the plants' responsibility and their gift: animating the inanimate. Now there is a gift.

Black ash and basket makers are partners in a symbiosis between harvesters and harvested: ash relies on people as the people rely on ash. Their fates are linked.

In a garden, food arises from partnership.

cooperating, not competing.