How Relationships Work Quotes

#1. I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.

Drew Barrymore

#2. I know he's right to be worried about us, because I'm worried about us too. I don't understand how relationships work. I don't know how they survive. It seems every day something new arrives to threaten your peace of mind.

Mike Gayle

#3. Success or failure in your work and relationships is dependent on how you manage your feelings.

Deborah Sandella

#4. I have very strong relationships with my actors when I'm shooting. When you love an actor's work, you always feel you have to go further, and you make several films together. One film just gives you time to get acquainted.

Claire Denis

#5. Your outer world of attitudes, wealth, work, relationships and health will always be a reflection of your inner attitudes of mind.

Brian Tracy

#6. When work relationships are reciprocal, ethical leadership emerges for both the executive and the participant unless the executive is trying to control the participant.

Peter J. Dean

#7. I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.

Rachael Taylor

#8. Relationships take work. It isn't true love if things go smoothly.

S.R. Crawford

#9. The thing is, relationships never work out ... until they do. You learn a lot from relationships that don't work out.

Tracy McMillan

#10. The best stuff in life isn't stuff at all ... relationships, experiences & meaningful work are the staples of a happy life.

Graham Hill

#11. I do write to be loved; I speak so that I am loved; I work for love; I live with others so that they may love me, and so that I can love them. For me, this is very important, and many, or all, of my relationships are based on that.

Angeles Mastretta

#12. Whatever you focus your mind on, you will consciously and subconsciously work towards.

Sam Owen

#13. Slay the idol of the seen, break the idols of performance, and believe the state of my house doesn't reflect the state of my soul...it's the priorities unseen - the prayers, the relationships, the love while doing the work - that hold the meaning, the merit.

Ann Voskamp

#14. In terms of sex between same-sex partners, the objection that "the parts don't fit" doesn't make sense on even the most logical level. If the parts didn't work together, frankly, people wouldn't be putting them together.

Kathy Baldock

#15. There's a reason why relationships don't work out. It's usually better to take a few steps back if you have any doubts before it gets complicated and you find yourself in a tangled web, not of your doing, but somehow you end up paying the price.

E.R. Wade

#16. Relationships only work in a spiritual sense when you and I really see that we are one.

Ram Dass

#17. It's the people we hardly know, and not our closest friends, who will improve our lives most dramatically

Meg Jay

#18. We're learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if they're broken. We're also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings - stepsiblings, half-siblings - and the surprising power they can have.

Jeffrey Kluger

#19. Money gives you options,
Hard work gives you success,
Healthy relationships give you a long life,
But faith gives you everything!

Farshad Asl

#20. Passive violence can be as simple as someone honking their horn at you for not turning fast enough when the light changes. And it can be highly complex, like when your co-worker undermines all of your work relationships by spreading rumors and lies about you. That's how passive violence rolls.

Inga Muscio

#21. Even a friendship needs an effort from both sides, how can we expect a relationship to work from the effort of one..!!

It should be a true-hearted commitment from both involve.

Akansh Malik

#22. I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.

Parker J. Palmer

#23. Some relationships just don't work out, no matter how bad both parties might want them to. Sometimes time, distance, and circumstances get in the way. And sometimes we have a purpose for our lives that couldn't be fulfilled inside the bounds of that relationship.

Mandy Hale

#24. We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.

Irvin D. Yalom

#25. It's so evident to me now that just because someone is a great guy doesn't guarantee we'll make a great couple, no matter how much I work at it and want it.

Daria Snadowsky

#26. I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#27. We all have the power to choose how we are going to handle every situation we are faced with throughout our lives. We are in control of the decision we make whether it's about work, relationships, parenting, or our health.

Jennifer Hudson

#28. And yeah, I know most people would think it weird that two guy friends touch as much as we do, but when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you, too. This is how we work. I hope you get to choose your family and I hope it means as much to you as mine does to me.

Patrick Ness

#29. After mutual respect and understanding are achieved, it is possible to establish real, sincere relationships, which is the foundation of a solid long-term collaboration.

Ron Garan

#30. John Gottman is our leading explorer of the inner world of relationships. In The Relationship Cure, he has found gold once again. This book shows how the simplest, nearly invisible gestures of care and attention hold the key to successful relationships with those we love and work with.

William J Doherty

#31. Here's how men think. Sex, work - and those are reversible, depending on age - sex, work, food, sports and lastly, begrudgingly, relationships. And here's how women think. Relationships, relationships, relationships, work, sex, shopping, weight, food.

Carrie Fisher

#32. This is how Tack and Raven work: It's their private language of push and return, argument and concession. With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered.

Lauren Oliver

#33. Through becoming aware of how the inner man and woman relates and communicates inside ourselves, it creates a joy and satisfaction in the three life areas that they influence: our meditation and inner growth, our relationships and our work and creativity.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#34. It's strange how many of us choose to stuff our lives with busyness and distractions. When we're too busy, we don't do anything well. Our relationships suffer, our performance at work suffers, and we don't enjoy our lives. Yet being "crazy busy" is a badge of honor for some people.

Bert Jacobs

#35. The insanity has to stop ... It affects each and every one of us, in multiple and nefarious ways: our self-image, how we show up in our relationships and at work, our sense of our worth, value, and potential as human beings. Join in-and help change-the Conversation.

Ashley Judd

#36. Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: 'How should this society work? How should relationships among people work?' The exploration is: 'Who am I, what am I doing?'

Alison Gopnik

#37. Relationships never work well when you only listen to yourself.

Richard Foth

#38. As governor, I work in hand in hand with tribal leaders on everything from disaster response to economic development. Tribal governments are important partners to our state government, and I value the good relationships my administration has cultivated with them.

Mary Fallin

#39. I used to think that you could get to a level of success where the laws of the universe didn't apply. But they do. It's still life on life's terms, not on movie-star terms. I still have to work at relationships. I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.

Chris Farley

#40. If you notice yourself viewing a potential partner as a "work in progress", that's a sign to find someone else.

Miya Yamanouchi

#41. The grandeur of a profession is ... above all, uniting men: there is only one true luxury, that of human relationships.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#42. Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Douglas McGregor

#43. Careers are built on relationships. Even if it's a bad movie, even if I know it's a bad movie, even if it's a team of filmmakers that I know are going to be difficult, that I know are going to really make me work extra hard, it's fundamentally the same process.

Christophe Beck

#44. When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life.

Shauna Niequist

#45. Besides, men aren't worth your time anyway, Letti. If we women spent as much time on ourselves as we do fretting over men, we'd be invincible! Work on yourself because at the end of the day, you're the only person you can trust.

S.R. Crawford

#46. You know, I went out on a normal amount of dates in my early 20s, and I got absolutely slaughtered for it. And it took a lot of hard work and altering my decision-making. I didn't date for two and a half years. Should I have had to do that? No.

Taylor Swift

#47. I did like hanging out with all the rock'n'roll boys - it was fun but all those relationships didn't work out.

Denise Van Outen

#48. Talking with other artists is an incredible process. You engage with the work very differently ... a nd different relationships between different works start to emerge. To tap into that energy-to tap into that moment-is great for me as an exercise.

Shahzia Sikander

#49. Creating and maintaining healthy boundaries demonstrates respect for ourselves and others and builds trust in both our work and personal relationships.

Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

#50. Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. 'Use' is a dirty word only when there's an imbalance in the relationship.

Warren Farrell

#51. People and relationships never stop being a work in progress

Nora Roberts

#52. I know some people find the idea of soul mates romantic, or comforting, but to me believing in soul mates means absolving yourself of any responsibility for your own happiness. If a relationship doesn't work out
whoops! It wasn't meant to be. Fuck meant to be.

Anna Jarzab

#53. Educators committed to engaging in the long-term, often difficult work of strengthening their relationships with colleagues, students and parents and expanding their opportunities for personal growth will find Nonviolent Communication to be an invaluable tool.

Ron Rubin

#54. Work is a different type of pursuit than relationships. You can't take the skills that you know that have gotten you into that great school or into that great job and apply them to your relationships.

Tracy McMillan

#55. When you're younger, you feel like work is work and relationships are supposed to be easy. As you get older, you realize you have to work at relationships to make them sustainable.

Vince Vaughn

#56. I'm anxious about work, the future, friendships, past relationships ... I'm just one of those people that, whatever I'm doing, it's a big worry.

Conor McPherson

#57. What else am I missing here? What's in this for you?" "You." Ben was honest for once, and it seemed to work, making Maddox stop mid-laugh and wiping the smart-ass expression off his face. "You're in it for me. I don't do relationships, you're right. But I do you. And I want to try this with you.

Annabeth Albert

#58. Although much of the work we do in committed relationships we do with our partners, sometimes it's necessary to start with ourselves.

Sharon Salzberg

#59. Relationships are difficult. It's life. You love life, so you fight. You fight because you love. Otherwise, you wouldn't fight. You work. You don't want to die. Why life is a fight, I don't know, but gosh! It is.

Sophie Marceau

#60. I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years without writing poems, and then write a dozen. Having a novel to work on, with the intricate puzzle of character and plot to work out, is satisfying for the time there is no poetry.

May Sarton

#61. Maybe relationships shouldn't be such hard work ...

Sarra Manning

#62. All my problems and anxieties certainly come out of my work, and that's the way it should be. Other than that, relationships with people I find very, very simple.

Jamie Wyeth

#63. People who have created their success through hard work and the support of others are always looking for ways to help those around them.
Don't be afraid to reach out.

Mensah Oteh

#64. You love me?"
He smiled. "Fuck yeah."
"I'm glad, because it's rare for one-sided relationships to work out well."
His smile widened. "Is that your very poor way of telling me you love me?"
"It was pretty poor, wasn't it?

Suzanne Wright

#65. It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.

Anne Tyler

#66. There are no refunds and no exchanges with love. It comes with flaws and imperfections. It's raw, unfiltered, and sometimes it isn't easy. But I've found the best things in this life are the ones I've had to work hardest for.

Helena Hunting

#67. The more you work with your dreams and your unconscious, and honor it, the more you understand it and it understands you. When you develop a relationship with your psyche this way, you begin to carry that energy into life and your relationships.

Marion Woodman

#68. I find that so often this work can so easily overcome you and knock you out of balance and become all you think about and all you care about and all you feel is important in your life, and it's kind of the opposite. Relationships first and people first and then you can be a great performer.

Erin Davie

#69. Men who make all the decisions in a relationship are also the ones who will blame you when they don't work out as they expected.

Heather Chapple

#70. When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they're not really concerned about him; they're concerned about their daughter's tummy.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana