On Partnerships.
“We should meet in another life. We should meet in air, me and you.” Sylvia Plath
“If you do not understand a man, you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, you probably will not.”
G.K. Chesterton
“I did not always think he was right, nor did he always think I was right. But we were each the person the other trusted.”
Joan Didion
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: If there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
Carl Jung
“It takes two flints to make a fire.”
Louisa May Alcott
“Alliances are difficult precisely because there is no ‘boss’ in them. One cannot give orders to a partner.”
Peter Drucker
“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist—and the less the artist does, the better.” André Gide
“Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.”
Amelia Earhart
“By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.” John Updike
“One’s not half two; it’s two are halves of one.”
E.E. Cummings
“Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.”
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
“He watched me breathe. He knew my breath.” Jerry Lewis
“The great irony emerges: Those who believe in soul mates are much less likely to actually find one.” Vironika Tugaleva
“To find someone—oh, yes, that is the problem. To have mutual love, that is so difficult, indeed.”
Iris Murdoch
“Collaborations work best this way: when there’s a mutual desire to see what the other side adds.” Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson
“By mutual aid much gold they’d always won; their friendship was a thing not new begun.”
Geoff rey Chaucer