Partners Quotes - Page 17

• The parent-adolescent relationship is like a partnership in which the senior partner (the parent) has more expertise in many areasbut looks forward to the day when the junior partner (the adolescent) will take over the business of running his or her own life.

  Laurence Steinberg

  Senior, Running, Parent

  Laurence Steinberg (2011). “You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Open marriage' is an invention of a feminist era. The idea is to have a marriage where dalliances are tolerated or even encouraged for both men and women, or in some combination where both partners are getting something out of it.

  Amanda Marcotte

  Men, Ideas, Feminist

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• I think anyone who has had a fight and who's a very good observer of the situation and people's behavior is capable of writing a fight. But you do start thinking about writing during the fights that you have with your partner.

  Julie Delpy

  Writing, Fighting, Thinking

  "The Before Midnight Team: Reunion of the Year 2013". Interview with Lauren Bans, www.gq.com. December 5, 2013.

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• You always absorb a lot from a great actor. What you want, as an actor, no matter where you are in your career, is a partner who's going to bring everything they have to the scene.

  Julianne Moore

  Careers, Actors, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• Fight scenes are really more like dances than they are fights, because you're depending on your partner to do the right move at the right time. Yes, a tough person or somebody who knows what they're doing will look better in a fight scene, but it also has a lot to do with the other person.

  James Franco

  Moving, Fighting, Looks

  "Jason Statham, James Franco, Winona Ryder, Kate Bosworth, Izabela Vidovic and Director Gary Fleder Talk HOMEFRONT, Stunts, Action, Kittens and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 24, 2013.

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• I know that the podcast is typically something I can do forever, because it's mine; it's just me and my producer and business partner, so it's our business.

  Marc Maron

  Forever, Producers, I Can

  "Marc Maron Off-Screen". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 3, 2015.

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• You have to have good training partners and not people who crank on things. There's a difference between cranking on it and catching it, holding it and making the guy work out. You have to be selective with your training partners for sure.

  Jon Fitch

  Differences, People, Work Out

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.

  Oliver Stone

  Believe, Understanding, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Running, Long, Enemy

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• Falling in love is biologically natural; sustaining love is biologically un-natural. Sustaining love requires a learned discipline. The discipline of love. The discipline of understanding our partner. (I've never heard someone say I want a divorce - my partner understands me.)

  Warren Farrell

  Falling In Love, Divorce, Love Is

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• Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.

  Bill Gurley

  Venture, Venture Capital, Productions

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• Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname, or she keeps hers.

  Zoe Saldana

  Brother, Father, Son

  "Zoe Saldaña stands behind husband's decision to take her name, 'redefine masculinity'". www.foxnews.com. June 10, 2015.

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• Without a Palestinian partner, Israel needs to take the initiative itself.

  Avi Dichter

  Israel, Needs, Initiative

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• It's easy to have a relationship and show each other only the beautiful shiny things. Sharing good parts about you is elementary, so finding a partner in life can't be only about showcasing these agreeable characteristics, but also the less impressive ones. In a strange way, true intimacy lies in that dark side-in making peace with the fact that it lives inside you somewhere-so that you can share it with the person and they can be there to help you overcome it.

  Claudio Sanchez

  Beautiful, Lying, Dark

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• The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is acceptable to one partner will be acceptable to the other.

  Wallis Simpson

  Marriage, Real, Lying

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• For sex to be wholly satisfying, we must have at least as much concern for a partner as for self - a requirement that doesn't live comfortably alongside the exhortation to 'do your own thing.' In the end, we are left with an extraordinarily heightened set of expectations about the possibilities in human relationships that lives side by side with disillusion that, for many, borders on despair.

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Sex, Self, Expectations

  Lillian B. Rubin (1991). “Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution?”, HarperCollins

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• Conjoined twins simply may not need sex-romance partners as much as the rest of us do. Throughout time and space, they have described their condition as something like being attached to a soul mate.

  Alice Domurat Dreger

  Sex, Space, Romance

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• the most successful marriages were always based on both partners feeling that they had done rather well for themselves.

  P. D. James

  Successful, Feelings, Done

  P. D. James (2008). “The Lighthouse”, p.30, Faber & Faber

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• The approach and strategies are very similar in that you gather all the information you can and then keep adding to that base of information as things develop. You do whatever the probabilities indicated based on the knowledge that you have at that time, but you are always willing to modify your behaviour or your approach as you get new information. In bridge, you behave in a way that gets the best from your partner. And in business, you behave in the way that gets the best from your managers and your employees.

  Warren Buffett

  Bridges, Behaviour, Information

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• If you can eliminate the government as a 39.6% partner, then you will be much better off.

  Warren Buffett

  Government, Investing, Better Off

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• When a couple gets to the last stage, one or both partners may have an affair. But an affair is usually a symptom of a dying marriage, not the cause. The end of that marriage could have been predicted long before either spouse strayed.

  John M. Gottman

  Couple, Long, Dying

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• It is not the ambassador, it is not the messenger, but the Lord Himself that saveth His people. The Lord remaineth alone, for no man can be partner with God in forgiving sins; this office belongs solely to Christ, who taketh away the sins of the world.

  Ambrose

  Men, Office, People

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• Children are like a mirror. They help you see yourself and all the flaws that you and your partner might have avoided looking at earlier.

  Virginia Clinton Kelley

  Children, Mirrors, Might

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• It's ever so much more satisfying to get into a blissful place and attract a blissful person and live blissfully hereafter than to be in a negative place and attract a negative partner and then try to get happy from that negative place.

  Esther Hicks

  Relationship, Trying, Negative

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• Do we want something more from our car? ... To perhaps be a partner, a coach, someone that can use their understanding of the situation to help us reach our potential.

  Chris Gerdes

  Technology, Want Something, Car

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