Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make — Stephen Covey
In a community all acts of individuals and of organizations are directly or indirectly interconnected and interdependent — Chester Barnard
Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success. — Stephen Covey
The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons. — Desmond Tutu
Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. — George Bernard Shaw
You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order. — Taisen Deshimaru
Maturity comes in three stages: dependence, independence and interdependence — Jenna Jameson
Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society. — Mahatma Gandhi
Givers reject the notion that interdependence is weak. Givers are more likely to see interdependence as a source of strength a way to harness the skills of multiple people for a greater good. — Adam Grant
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things. — Thomas Merton
All beings, including each one of us, enemy and friend alike, exist in patterns of mutuality, interconnectedness, co-responsibility and ultimately in unity. — Joan Halifax
There is that interdependence and that strength you get from a team, that the group is greater than any individual. — Pete Newell
Like the body that is made up of different limbs and organs, all moral creatures must depend on each other to exist. — Indian Proverbs
Cooperation for mutual benefit, a survival strategy very common in natural systems, is one that humanity needs to emulate. — Eugene Odum
It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence. — Voltaire
Short Interdependence Quotes
There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil. — Hannah Arendt
One hand washes the other and together they wash the face. — Turkish Proverbs
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
This planet is our home. Our life and hers are interdependent. — Doreen Valiente
Because the caterpillar exists, there exists also a bird to eat it. — Vietnamese Proverbs
Every explicit duality is an implicit unity. — Alan Watts
The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence . — Peter Senge
Security and contentment can come only through interdependence of every man upon every other man. — Walter Russell
I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance. — Bob Black
Interdependence Image Quotes
Global Interdependence Quotes
This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long - We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order. — David Rockefeller
As economic globalization gathers momentum, China and the United States have become highly interdependent economically. Such economic relations would not enjoy sustained, rapid growth if they were not based on mutual benefit or if they failed to deliver great benefits to the United States. — Xi Jinping
Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Our mission in this new century is clear. For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can't escape each other. Therefore, we have to spend our lives building a global community of shared responsibilities, shared values, shared benefits. — William J. Clinton
Let's create an integrated global community where we have shared benefits and responsibilities, and we don't fight because of our differences. — William J. Clinton
Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence. — Jared Diamond
Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable. — Peter Mandelson
The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence. — Margaret Mead
Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness [all-at-once-ness]. 'Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village ... a simultaneous happening. ... The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village. — Marshall McLuhan
The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village. — Marshall McLuhan
Movie Quotes
If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew. — Pocahontas
Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple — Gene Wilder
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. — J. K. Rowling
I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you. — Pocahontas
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. — John Hughes
You gonna do somethin'? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed? — Wyatt Earp
See, ya are what ya are in this world. That's either one of two things: Either you're somebody, or you ain't nobody. — Frank Lucas
The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room. — Frank Lucas
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are. — J. K. Rowling
Nature And Relationship Quotes
There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them. — Jo Walton
Prayer is spiritual communication between man and God, a two-way relationship in which man should not only talk to God but also listen to Him. Prayer to God is like a child's conversation with his father. It is natural for a child to ask his father for the things he needs. — Billy Graham
When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Every time you change, you create new enemies and new allies. Don't be surprised when this happens. It's science. It's human nature. It's inevitable. — Patrick Bet-David
It’s natural to have some disagreement between husband and wife. — Hungarian Proverbs
Whenever anyone grows tired of the secondhand sort of existence that depends on purchased products, and wants to resume the intimate relationship with nature that man once enjoyed, the kukui-nut stands ready to furnish him with food, flavor, tannin, oil, paint, varnish, medicine, and magic. — Euell Gibbons
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter. — Jean Genet
Sex is... perfectly natural. It's something that's pleasurable. It's enjoyable and it enhances a relationship. So why don't we learn as much as we can about it and become comfortable with ourselves as sexual human beings because we are all sexual? — Sue Johanson
It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person. — Paul Watzlawick
The only hope for developing a new civilization is to accept responsibility for improving our lives through knowledge, understanding, and a deeper comprehension of humanity’s relationship to natural processes of evolution. Our future is determined by effort we put forth to achieve this transition. — Jacque Fresco
Relationship Value Quotes
It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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. — Brené Brown
A woman prefers a man without money to money without a man — Greek Proverbs
If you are willing to look at another person's behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person. then you will, over a period of time, cease to react at all. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free? — American Proverbs
Skillful investors, risk, stability, dependability of value, relationship between price and value — Howard Marks
One of the most powerful networking practices is to provide immediate value to a new connection. — Lewis Howes
Wives and husbands are a dime a dozen but a true partner is worth their weight in gold. — Alex Hormozi
I won't have a traditional marriage; I don't find the value in that anymore. But I am such a hopeless romantic and I really want love and I want a committed relationship, so I am going to reinvent marriage for myself. — Halle Berry
One person caring about another represents life's greatest value. — Jim Rohn
Interconnectedness Quotes
Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another. — Yuri Kochiyama
Try to understand what I am saying: everything is dependent on everything else, everything is connected, nothing is separate. Therefore everything is going in the only way it can go. If people were different everything would be different. They are what they are, so everything is as it is. — G. I. Gurdjieff
The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness. — Alex Grey
The more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be. — Fritjof Capra
The earth is a beehive, we all enter by the same door. — African Proverbs
If you cut down the trees, you will find the wolf. — American Proverbs
Our spirituality is oneness and an interconnectedness with all that lives and breathes, even with all that does not live or breathe. — Aboriginal proverbs
Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world. — Aga Khan IV
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships. — Stephen Covey
People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one's perception of reality. — Nhat Hanh
I sincerely believe the word "relationships" is the key to the prospect of a decent world [and life]. It seems abundantly clear that every problem you will have - in your family, in your business, in our nation, or in this world - is essentially a matter of relationships, of interdependence. — Clarence Francis
We ourselves are part of a guild of species that lie within and without our bodies. Aboriginal peoples and the Ayurvedic practitioners of ancient India have names for such guilds, or beings made up (as we are) of two or more species forming one organism. Most of nature is composed of groups of species working interdependently. — Bill Mollison
Life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don't even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see flat surfaces. — Colin Neenan
Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system. — W. Edwards Deming
True spirituality is to be aware that if we are interdependent with everything and everyone else, even our smallest, least significant thought, word and action have real consequences throughout the universe. — Sogyal Rinpoche
Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things. — Anne Sullivan Macy
Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament; You give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you're giving, you're not giving to the other person; you're giving to the relationship. — Joseph Campbell
There is no emptiness without appearance, and there is no appearance without emptiness. That is what we call the interdependent nature. — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
It's important to realize that we all need to work together. With Weaving Movements, we are all interdependent and we all have to work together. If we could just realize that and understand that, we'll keep our country strong. — Dolores Huerta
The reality today is that we are all interdependent and have to co-exist on this small planet. Therefore, the only sensible and intelligent way of resolving differences and clashes of interests, whether between individuals or nations, is through dialogue. — Dalai Lama
Bells theorem dealt a shattering blow to Einsteins position by showing that the conception of reality as consisting of separate parts, joined by local connections, is incompatible with quantum theory... Bells theorem demonstrates that the universe is fundamentally interconnected, interdependent, and inseparable. — Fritjof Capra
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. — Anais Nin
We deeply need the humility to know ourselves as the dependent members of a great community of life, and this can indeed be one of the spiritual benefits of a wilderness experience. ... [T]o know the wilderness is to know a profound humility, to recognize one's littleness, to sense dependence and interdependence, indebtedness and responsibility. — Howard Zahniser
The more we study the major problems of our time, the more we come to realise that they cannot be understood in isolation. They are systemic problems, which means that they are interconnected and interdependent. — Fritjof Capra
If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular, interlacing nexus of plant animal relationships (rather than a stratified pyramid with man at the apex)… Each species, be it a form of bacteria or deer, is knitted together in a network of interdependence, however indirect the links may be. — Murray Bookchin
I am a part of all that I have met. Yet, experience is an arch wherethro gleams that untravl'd world whose margin fades forever and forever when I move. — Homer
When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities. — William J. Clinton
I propose that there is another kind of power based not on resources, things, or attributes, but rooted in the social and cooperative relations in which people are enmeshed by virtue of group life. — Frances Fox Piven
All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. . . The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land. — Aldo Leopold
The desire for freedom and independence becomes more of an issue for many men in relationships, whereas interdependence and connection become more of an issue for many women. — Deborah Tannen
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