Jose James Quotes

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

If we look honestly at our relationships, we can see so much about how we have created them.

We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.

Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.

I was never very mature in my relationships with women. First sign of conflict, I was gone.

I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.

After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

Mixed messages are just part and parcel of the romantic terrain, and rather than berate yourself for any crossed wires, you'd do better to work on your future resilience.

I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

The older you get, the more you start to realize that you can't win an argument in a relationship. You can't win a fight with your woman. Because if you lose, you lose. And if you win, you lose.

If you can't be with yourself, you'll never learn to be with anyone else.

I've been in many relationships in my life and learned a lot from them, good and bad.

My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from my stepdad is something as important, which is patience and compassion. Because when you are living with someone else, those two qualities go a long way.

Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.

I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

The strengths and failings of a relationship depend entirely on your ability to talk about your feelings.

You kind of restructure your whole personality to be in a healthy relationship.

All relationships are a learning experience, even ones you continue to be in. If you don't see them as that, then that's a problem.

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.

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

Living together is an art.

I have a lot of guy-like quintessential relationship qualities that I have had to work on.

To be honest, relationships with the opposite sex are the most challenging things I've done. You lose your compass, gravity changes, you don't know what's up or down, you're trying to figure it out. You're trying to make everybody happy, including yourself, and it's just... it's humbled me.