Communication is not just about accomplishing tasks. It’s about managing relationships. – Gregory Shepherd
How to say no? Regardless of IQ, all of us fall for these techniques – knowingly or unknowingly. deliberately or accidentally. Poor decisions – in life, business, career, relationships, purchases – are the consequence of persuasion techniques used against you. – Robert Cialdini
I did a statistical analysis and found no correlation between my efforts and my rewards. I felt adrift in a sea of randomness, desperate and absurd, devoid of purpose, lost. And then I got paid and I purchased some unnecessary merchandise and now I feel fine. – Scott Adams
I have now made a habit of being prepared in all affairs of life for the worst. As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me but is indeed very soothing and consoling, and I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. I never lie down at night without reflecting that, young as I am, I may not live to see another day. Yet not one of all my acquaintances could say that in my company I am morose or disgruntled. For this blessing I daily thank my creator. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
If you stop working at relationships, they fade away. – Beat Schindler
In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take, the relationships we were afraid to have, and the decisions we waited too long to make. – Lewis Carroll
It is impossible to end a relationship. It is only possible to change it. All relationships are never-ending. It is not a question of whether we are going to have the relationship, but of what kind of relationship we are going to have. – Debbie Ford
It is not the failed relationships which influence our life. They influence our death. – Anais Nin
James Dickey had always been interested in the creative possibilities of the lie. He believe that the poet is not trying to tell the truth, but to make it. The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being. It is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. – Graham Greene
No man in this country is under the smallest obligation, moral or other, so to arrange his legal relations to his business or to his property as to enable the Inland Revenue to put the largest possible shovel into his stores. – Lord Clyde
Personality is both antithetical to anarchy and constraint, because it is autonomous, and two autonomies can only sustain reciprocal relations. – Jean Piaget
Social relationships are always ambiguous…my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken… I never stop finding myself guilty even though I am innocent. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. The only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take. – Tony Robbins
Success depends above all, upon people. Build relationships, teams, partnerships – and motivate people to contribute. Cultivate leadership, creativity, excellence. Listen. Seek new ideas and advice. – Ruth Scott
Synergy means that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. It means that the relationship the parts have to each other is a part in and of itself. It is not only a part, but the most catalytic, the most empowering, the most unifying, and the most exciting part. – Stephen Covey
The best relationship is one in which your care for each other outweighs your need for each other. – Unknown
The gramophone record, the musical thought, the score, the waves of sound, all stand to one another in that pictorial internal relation, which also holds between letters and words, and the world. – Beat Schindler
The same operation which makes q from p, makes r from q, and so on. This can only be expressed by the fact that p, q, r, etc, are variables which give general expression to certain formal relations. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
The state to which I belong as a citizen plays not the slightest role in my personal life. I regard a person’s relationship with the state as a business matter, akin to one’s relationship to a life insurance company. – Albert Einstein
Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships. Trust is the highest form of human motivation. – Stephen Covey
We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs because of a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
What makes a relationship work is things in common, what makes it passionate is that things are very different. – Tony Robbins
