Pat Metheny Quotes

You cannot build a partnership on four games.

I want a strong team-mate and one that is challenging me.

You decide to give your trust over to somebody. And if you don't decide to, then for me, it's really not worth going into collective enterprises; you should just work alone.

One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.

I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.

I said to George, 'Why don't you manage me?' He looked at me, a little bit surprised. Then he replied, 'Sure, Sass, I'll manage you, but it would be even better if we managed each other.' The next morning, we got our marriage license at the court.

A relationship takes two people to make or break it.

When you have a fruitful relationship with someone, and you've both chosen to work together, then it can spawn really good things.

Any person in a relationship has to see what they gain from those things and if it's worth what you have to sacrifice to be in a relationship. I don't think that's a terrible thing.

Greatest thing in our partnership is the sharing of responsibility; if one of us has to go away, we always know someone vitally concerned is on the spot.

Teamwork. That's the biggest lesson you can learn from competing in NCAA gymnastics. Everyone just has to work together, you have to trust in everyone, and everyone has to push you to become the gymnast you want to be.

As I had always said, it takes two people to work hard to create the chemistry.

One right and honest definition of business is mutual helpfulness.

They left us together for a reason. Let's show them why.

Either we're a team or we aren't. Either you trust me or you don't.

You must have a reason to be in the places to which you go, and you must do only things that you really care about.

Trust is the foundation of real teamwork (there is nothing touchy-feely about this).

I learned to go into business only with people whom I like, trust, and admire.

If you know each other well, you want to do business with people you know well. You don't do business with strangers.

One is too small a number to achieve greatness. No accomplishment of real value has ever been achieved by a human being working alone.

The best relationships are win-win. Why don't more people go into relationships with that attitude?

I believe less in my ability & more in the ability of the one who comes to meet me. That's the speciality of my work style.

I had a strong identity in mind but then of course I had to trust Didier Dubot's expertise. They've been doing jewelry for so many years.

I come from the mind-set that, if you want it to work, it will work, whether it's a friendship or a relationship. If you're both in the same mind-set and you want to be together and you want to make it work, you can make it work. It just takes dedication and knowing that there might be some miscommunication and lack of communication sometimes.

When you go and create something, you want to believe in it. If they don't, we're barking up the wrong tree. But when you believe in something and you see other people believing in it too, it just feels like you're doing something right in the world, and that feels good.