If your social media addiction comes between your relationship, you might want to quit.
When you have that privilege of being able to talk directly with your chairman, like I’ve had with Daniel Levy, that make things a lot easier. Afterwards, I know what we’ve said to each other, and we have a relationship built on trust.
I’ve had lunch with Alisson when he arrived at Liverpool. We have a very good relationship. He’s a friend.
I’ve lost count of the interviews I’ve done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.
The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
I’m Nigerian. I’m African. I have a lot to say. Apart from what I say, though, is the feeling. People can relate to that feeling. It’s a reciprocal relationship. They feed off me and I feed off them.
I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we’ve been through a myriad of emotions because we’ve acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.
For me, I’m not a jealous person. That’s just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.
The U.K.’s relationship with the U.S. has proved strong enough over time to bear the weight of honest disagreement. It does not require unconditional support where our interests or judgements differ.
I have my relationship with God and myself, and that’s what matters to me. I really don’t care what most people think.
When you work together in a creative way, you have to be less selfish about your ideas and learn to let both parties feel valued. Of course, that’s also a really great quality to have in a relationship, too.
I hate the whole concept of comfort! It’s like when people say: ‘Well we’re not really in love but we’re in a comfortable relationship.’ You’re abandoning a lot of ideas when you’re too into comfort.
Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.
Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.
I used to do an impersonation of Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage in a romantic relationship.
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
My personal belief is that you carry your own water in a relationship. If you see a girl and you think she’s hot, that’s a very human reaction, but you don’t go and tell your spouse that, you know? So in one way it’s how you behave.
There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian – the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals.
You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
We’re producing spaces that accommodate human activity. And what I’m interested in is not the styling of that, but the relationship of that as it enhances that activity. And that directly connects to ideas of city-making.
Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage.
America has a love-hate relationship with celebrity. We love to follow celebrities, but we also love to mock them. And secretly, we believe we’re better than they are.
The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
