Jeffrey Gitomer Quotes

People have filled an enormously important role in my life - more than books! For me, it's not the formal advising or the therapy that meant so much. It was more the fact that someone committed himself or herself to me. They were really interested in my life; they wanted to know what I was doing; they followed me; they dared to confront and challenge me.

The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.

You never really meet a human being until you live with them or know them for awhile, so this is my clown and they understand that and so these interviews don't bother them.

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

The good thing about me is, I only do deals with people that I love to begin with.

I have the capability to have a close relationship with someone.

I think, when you get to know somebody on a personal level were you truly understand what makes them tick, what they play for, things they like to do in their spare time, you're around their families, I think you're kind of able to kind of coexist more when you have a relationship.

People will trust you a lot more if you show them you care about them besides basketball. It's deeper.

Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not.

When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.

People are influenced most by those they trust, admire and believe care for them.

One hardly dares to say that love is the core of the relationship, though love is sought for and created in relationship; love is rather the marvel when it is there, but it is not always there, and to know another and to be known by another - that is everything.

When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.

Lewis Strauss is one of my best friends.

I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.

I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you.

Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.

Make deals with people, not paper.

When you love someone unconditionally, you go to war for them, and they do that for each other. They know they can call each other when they need each other. In this day and age, everyone needs a friend like in Hap and Leonard.

They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him.

I don't trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his own self-interest and says so, I have usually been able to work out some way to do business with him.

When you hug someone, you learn something else about them. An important something else.

I think of friendship in terms of love.

I feel his heartbeat against my cheek,as fast as my own. "Are you afraid of me, too, Tobias?" "Terrified," he replies with a smile.

'Fringe' is essentially a love story, so the scenes where Walter had close connection with Peter, but also with Anna's character or Jasika's character, were very special to me.