Quotes About Interdependence

As an interdependent person, I have the opportunity to share myself deeply, meaningfully, with others, and I have access to the vast resources and potential of other human beings. Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make.

Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own effort. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success. If

Independence is an important, even vital, value and achievement. The problem is, we live in an interdependent reality, and our most important accomplishments require interdependency skills well beyond our present abilities.

So the place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our Circle of Influence, our own character. As we become independent—proactive, centered in correct principles, value driven and able to organize and execute around the priorities in our life with integrity—we then can choose to become interdependent—capable of building rich, enduring, highly productive relationships with other people.

Reactive people build their emotional lives around the behavior of others, empowering the weaknesses of other people to control them.

Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality. Independent people who do not have the maturity to think and act interdependently may be good individual producers, but they won't be good leaders or team players.

If our sense of emotional worth comes primarily from our marriage, then we become highly dependent upon that relationship.

effective interdependence can only be built on a foundation of true independence.

Family itself is a "we" experience, a "we" mentality. And admittedly, the movement from "me" to "we"—from independence to interdependence—is perhaps one of the most challenging and difficult aspects of family life.

Table of Contents Part One: Paradigms and Principles INSIDE-OUT THE 7 HABITS—AN OVERVIEW Part TWO: PRIVATE VICTORY HABIT 1: BE PROACTIVE ® HABIT 2: BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND ® HABIT 3: PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST ® Part Three: public victory PARADIGMS OF INTERDEPENDENCE ® HABIT 4: THINK WIN/ WIN ®

If you pick up one end of the stick, you pick up the other.

On the maturity continuum, dependence is the paradigm of you—you take care of me; you come through for me; you didn't come through; I blame you for the results.

you become truly independent, you have the foundation for effective interdependence. You have the character base from which you can effectively work on the more personality-oriented "Public Victories" of teamwork, cooperation, and communication in Habits 4, 5, and 6.

So in this section I also deal with the attitudes, skills, and strategies for creating and maintaining trustful relationships with other people. In effect, once we become relatively independent, our challenge is to become effectively interdependent with others. To do this we must practice empathy and synergy in our efforts to be proactive and productive.

Dependent people cannot choose to become interdependent. They don't have the character to do it; they don't own enough of themselves.

They move us progressively on a Maturity Continuum from dependence to independence to interdependence.

As part of an interdependent world, you have to relate to that world every day. But the acute problems of that world can easily obscure the chronic character causes.

In the long run, if it isn't a win for both of us, we both lose.

The little-understood concept of interdependence appears to many to smack of dependence, and therefore, we find people, often for selfish reasons, leaving their marriages, abandoning their children, and forsaking all kinds of social responsibility—all in the name of independence. The

Independent people who do not have the maturity to think and act interdependently may be good individual producers, but they won't be good leaders or team players.

In the long run, if it isn't a win for both of us, we both lose. That's why Win/Win is the only real alternative in interdependent realities.

To think that America could exist independent of what was happening around the globe, no matter how far away or how remote things might appear, bordered on idiocy.

When … days lengthen, spring flowers bloom. … Spring flowers are inseparable from lengthening days; … Indeed, spring flowers are the longer days. … [A]ll phenomena work together as a seamless whole.

There's nothing you can find - … nothing you can even imagine – that doesn't originate, develop, or exist in relation to other things.