Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave.

I'm not patient and some things drive me crazy. In my work I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs.

I think people are by-and-large happy with the providers that they have got now. They treasure that doctor-patient relationship.

In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.

In finding love I think it's important to be patient. In being in a relationship I think it's important to be honest to communicate to respect and trust and to strive to give more than you take.

Individual psychotherapy - that is engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient modest and a perceptive listener rather than a talker and advice-giver.

The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.

Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

We read too much Shakespeare at school and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits was promised and has earned.

I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.