Quotes About Relationship

You must have a good time meeting people if you expect them to have a good time meeting you.

Thank your opponents sincerely for their interest. Anyone who takes the time to disagree with you is interested in the same things you are. Think of them as people who really want to help you, and you may turn your opponents into friends.

It took me years and cost me countless thousands of dollars in lost business before I finally learned that it doesn't pay to argue, that it is much more profitable and much more interesting to look at things from the other person's viewpoint and try to get that person saying 'yes, yes.

Looking at the other person's point of view and arousing in him an eager want for something is not to be construed as manipulating that person so that he will do something that is only for your benefit and his detriment. Each party should gain from the negotiation.

De modo que el único medio de que disponemos para influir sobre el prójimo es hablar acerca de lo que él quiere, y demostrarle cómo conseguirlo.

think always in terms of the other person's point of view, and see things from that person's angle as well as your own—if

To recall a voter's name is statesmanship. To forget it is oblivion.

So, because I had apologized and sympathized with her point of view, she began apologizing and sympathizing with my point of view. I had the satisfaction of controlling my temper, the satisfaction of returning kindness for an insult. I got infinitely more real fun out of making her like me than I could ever have gotten out of telling her to go and take a jump in the Schuylkill River.

No one likes to feel that he or she is being sold something or told to do a thing. We much prefer to feel that we are buying of our own accord or acting on our own ideas. We like to be consulted about our wishes, our wants, our thoughts. Take the case of Eugene Wesson.

Ya lo dijo Lincoln hace cerca de cien años. Estas son sus palabras: Una vieja y exacta máxima dice que una gota de miel caza más moscas que un galón de hiel También ocurre con los hombres que si usted quiere ganar a alguien a su causa, debe convencerlo primero de que es usted un amigo sincero. Ahí está la gota de miel que caza su corazón; el cual, dígase lo que se quiera, es el camino real hacia su razón.

If your twin was dead, were you still a twin?

Blood banged inside my head. I loved my brother. I hated him. There was no solution to who he was. No getting back who he had been.

He reached over and tweaked one of my bumps, then cuffed me on the chin. "You hiding walnuts in there or something?" "Shut up," I said. I jumped in and swam the length of the pool, hiding my smile underwater. He was a flirt, that was all. What was wrong with that? If Mrs. Masicotte was stupid enough to buy us a pool because he flirted a little, that was her problem, not ours.

I'm glad you're seeing someone," she said. "You and Thomas had a pretty complex relationship. You've spent an enormous amount of emotional energy on Thomas. Your whole life. Now, you're going to have to take all of that energy and . . . reinvest it, I guess. It's bound to be a complicated process.

He took his hamburger out of the box, bit a large crescent shape out of it, and chewed. I looked away. "I've been thinking," he said. "Our apartment lease is up in less than three months. What do you say we move down to your grandmother's house." "I've been thinking, too," I said. "In a way, you raped her." "What?" "Your high school girlfriend. Sheila. You raped her.

function of art? What is its value? Is it about form and composition? Uniqueness of vision? The relationship between the painter and the painting? The painting and the viewer?

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you; As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.

And that my Soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing each other, and never perhaps to see each other, is every bit as wonderful.

Eravamo insieme. Tutto il resto del mondo l'ho scordato.

Among the men and women, the multitude, I perceive one picking me out by secret and divine signs, Acknowledging none else—not parent, wife, husband, brother, child, any nearer than I am; Some are baffled—But that one is not—that one knows me. Ah, lover and perfect equal! I meant that you should discover me so, by my faint indirections; And I, when I meet you, mean to discover you by the like in you.

The President is up there in the White House for you . . . . it is not you who are here for him

Sétáljunk tova ketten a többitÅ'l; Most együtt vagyunk szemtÅ'l-szembe, hagyd abba a ceremóniát, Jer! tedd meg nekem, amit még nem tettél meg senkinek – Mondd el nekem az egész történetet, Mondd el nekem, amit nem mondanál el fivérednek, feleségednek, férjednek, vagy az orvosodnak.