Quotes About Partnership

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

The wisteria vines on their own would just barely get by…but put them together with rhizobia and they make miracles.

She wanted to know did that mean getting married. I said why not. We were never getting married, we could barely pull our act together to buy a phone plan.

She was the crisis handler, he was the evader.

A Fed, a local, and a consultant.

Looking back on it, Sloat wasn't sure how he had tolerated Phil Sawyer for as long as he had. His partner had never played to win, not seriously; he had been encumbered by sentimental notions of loyalty and honor, corrupted by the stuff you told kids to get them halfway civilized before you finally tore the blindfold off their eyes.

My central belief, though, is that men are made to protect the territory assigned to them and to assure that everything within that territory fulfills its God-ordained purpose. This is what manhood is designed for. This is how a man fulfills his purpose. His decision to "own" his field moves both the best that is within him and the best that God has to offer into that partnership I call Great Manhood.

If I am intellectually interdependent, I realize that I need the best thinking of other people to join with my own.

You can only achieve Win/Win solutions with Win/Win processes—the end and the means are the same.

Interdependence is the paradigm of we—we can do it; we can cooperate; we can combine our talents and abilities and create something greater together.

Anything less than Win/Win in an interdependent reality is a poor second best that will have impact in the long-term relationship.

in our relationships with others. It involves mutual learning, mutual influence, mutual benefits.

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I am physically interdependent, I am self-reliant and capable, but I also realize that you and I working together can accomplish far more than, even at my best, I could accomplish alone.

win/win is nice ... and tough. It's twice as tough as win/lose

Gates and Ballmer accomplished much more by working together than they ever could alone; 1 + 1 is much larger than 2 (Habit 6: Synergize).

Interdependence is a far more mature, more advanced concept. If I am physically interdependent, I am self-reliant and capable, but I also realize that you and I working together can accomplish far more than, even at my best, I could accomplish alone.

interdependence.

In the long run, if it isn't a win for both of us, we both lose.

Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. So we resort to sarcasm, cutting humor, criticism—anything that will keep from exposing the tenderness within. Each partner tends to wait on the initiative of the other for love, only to be disappointed but also confirmed as to the rightness of the accusations made.

In the long run, if it isn't a win for both of us, we both lose. That's why Win/Win is the only real alternative in interdependent realities.

Si bien compartir muchos rasgos de personalidad puede hacer que una relación sea más fácil, son las diferencias las que lo hacen mucho más interesante y valioso para tu vida. En general, una pareja complementaria te puede permitir hacer lo que haces mejor y no preocuparte por lo que odias.

Don't compromise, when you can synergize.

Los medios de comunicación necesitan a los expertos tanto como los expertos a los medios.