Quotes About Interdependence

People have got to get over the fear of not being able to trust others. I come across people who are very successful in their own sphere, and really believe they can do it all themselves, but they can't.

The real truth of that is that much as you want to believe that it's you being on top of everything, you're actually relying massively on the people around you.

Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence.

Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.

You've always got to be smart enough to go 'Well they're going to have to bring some of their own in'. We don't want to be a monopoly where we get shoved out, it has to be symbiotic.

No matter how much you want to be self-sufficient and alone, there is a natural human impulse to need something more than that.

Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.

The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don't want to.

Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.

Life fears chaos. It was ever thus. We fear it more than anything else, because it is anathema. Order battles against dissolution. Order negotiates cooperation as a mechanism of survival, on every scale, from a patch of skin to an entire menagerie of interdependent creatures. That cooperation, of course, may not of essence be necessarily peaceful - a minute exchange of failures to ensure greater successes.

No soul deserved to stand alone

Sex is the glue that holds society together.

Whenever the whole is different from the sum of the parts—whenever there's cooperation or competition going on—the governing equations must be nonlinear.

We are deciphering how all known objects—from atoms to galaxies, from cells to brains, from people to society—are interrelated. For the more we examine nature, the more everything seems related to everything else.

We are deciphering how all known objects - form atoms to galaxies, from cells to brains, from people to society - are interrelated. For the more we examine nature, the more everything seems related to everything else.

It is a great testimony to the connectedness of life on earth that the fates of the largest and the tiniest life should be so closely dependent on each other.

our kids need to understand that they are not above, outside, or apart from their physical environment—they are completely intertwined with it, and it with them.

Our intelligence resides not in individual brains but in the collective mind. To function, individuals rely not only on knowledge stored within our skulls but also on knowledge stored elsewhere: in our bodies, in the environment, and especially in other people.

science isn't about the things but about the relationships among the things.

If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

Life without Gimel, especially, was unthinkable to me now.

We are one another, Finn. I'm not sure what's happening here. I'm not sure why I need to do this.

Among the tubes, aloneness is a thing to be avoided. We thrive in each other's company.

We have each other now. We have discovered each other.