Quotes About Partnership

There's no I in the word 'team,'" Tex would say. "But there is in the word 'win,'" Michael would counter with a grin.

They could not have done it alone, but together they did it.

presumptuous—but he's got to he with someone

her husband had been the best sort of partner, one who understood what it meant to respect somebody and love them for who they are and not wish for them to be different, or need them to be different, that had been the key to their long and happy life together, but, also, her husband had been natively cheerful and essentially kind, and those things had helped a lot

A good rule to remember is that, in relationships, there are no win-lose or lose-win combinations: There are only win-wins and lose-loses.

Developing an increased level of trust with other teams can enable the harder things.

he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with.

It won't be a normal life-I know that. But it will be a life. A life together.

This was how we'd always played. You were Cinderella, I was a mouse. You were Alice, I was the Hatter. You were the sun, and I wasn't even the moon.

These words are now mine, but soon they'll be ours.

They don't have silences together; they have noise. Mostly his.

By the time I got there, you'd already decided. And I quickly decided to let you decide. You were already seeing the rooms as ours, and that was enough for me.

If there were no one else involved, it would be an easy choice. But isn't that always the case? And there's always someone else involved.

It was, I thought, a simple equation: You find the right person. You do the right things. And from that, everything goes right.

Imperceptible, adj. We stopped counting our relationship in dates (first date, second date, fifth, date, seventh) and started counting it in months. That might have been the first true commitment, this shift in terminology. We never talked about it, but we were at a party and someone asked how long we`d been together, and when you said, A month and a half," I knew we had gotten there.

But it doesn't mean anything without someone beside him. It's not a game if he's the only one playing.

We are a team of two. And since it's not a competition, we've already won -Rhiannon

David Lipsky: Why aren't you married at thirty-four? David Foster Wallace: You first. David Lipsky: Um-I think it's hard to fill that role...to cast it and to fill it when you know it's for thirty or forty years...someone who, whatever mental landscape you're in, they're going to be in it too, you need someone who'll fit any landscape you can imagine.

Seeking love and sincerity are two solutions to the commitment problem. Sincerity signals that the man is capable of commitment. Acts of love signal that

Para alcanzar la armonía y la igualdad, tanto los hombres como las mujeres deben reconocer que están unidos en un proceso coevolutivo que comenzó hace mucho tiempo y que sigue operando en la actualidad a través de nuestras estrategias de emparejamiento.

The more committed partner is generally less desirable. Studies show that the less desirable partner becomes more jealous.

el conflicto en la pareja es la regla, no la excepción.

We tell ourselves that intimacy (and marriage) takes two people who are willing to work at it-but, unfortunately, we rarely have the slightest inkling of our job assignments in this project.

Nobody's Ready for Marriage—Marriage Makes You Ready for Marriage