Quotes About Interdependence

Families are complex organisms.

A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any meaning separately; they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on.

Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.

We all need each other.

The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests.

China's development benefits other countries.

We are what we are because of the people in our lives. What would I be without my family and close friends?

You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You're only as good as the team you have behind you.

Whether you call it a "team" or an "ensemble" or a "harmonious work group" is not what matters; what matters is helping all parties understand that the success of the individual is tied irrevocably to the success of the whole.

Water can exist without fish but fish can not exist without water.

Like I use to tell my daughter's daddy, the key to getting along and living with other folks is to keep clear whose weight is whose.

The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.

Buddha teaches that there are many causes and many conditions and always refers to causes and conditions in the plural, never just as cause and effect. We are presented with a very complex picture of how things work.

What we do as individuals in daily life will affect not just us but other people, the world at large, and even the universe. At

I can't say for sure, because I have no experience, but -- well, is this what family is like? The feeling that everyone's connected, that with one piece missing the whole thing's broken?

Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone's connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing's broken?

We are in a world that has forgotten how interconnected we are with each other; how reliant we are on her mother, Gaia, for everything we need to exist, and that we are, in fact, made of the same materials as the stars. We can become as the Gods, but only if we remember that we are already divine beings.

She believes that having somebody, to be something to somebody, will balance or make the contrarieties of life easier.

Listen. I used to think I could do everything by myself, too. I didn't want help from anyone. But I wouldn't be here now if it weren't for my friends.

No matter how good an individual on the team might be feeling about his or her situation, if the team loses, everyone loses.

Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.

Human beings need to be needed, and they need to be reminded of this pretty much every day. They need to know that they are helping others, not merely serving themselves.

You don't do anything by yourself in this world, and if it's worth anything, it's not just for yourself, either. You're either lifting up the people around you, or you're pulling them down, whether you know it or not.

Money is a side effect of specialization. In a specialized society, most of the things you need, you can't make for yourself. If you want a potato or a pencil or a place to live, you have to get it from someone else. How do you get the person who grows the potatoes to give you some? By giving him something he wants in return. But you can't get very far by trading things directly with the people who need them.