Quotes About Interdependence

When I used to perform weddings, the image I always had was the image of a triangle, in which there are two partners and then there is this third force, this third being, that emerges out of the interaction of these two. The third one is the one that is the shared awareness that lies behind the two of them.

I know my own father's business was very dependent on the goodwill and business and trade from people in northern Mexico. We knew their families and went to their weddings and baptisms and balls and picnics, and we had a great time with them.

It takes a lot of people. I would not swim if it was just me. If I didn't have any teammates, I couldn't stay in a pool for two hours, twice a day, nine times a week. I can't do that. And I'm fine with admitting that. I couldn't do this by myself.

No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne.

We all need Europe, not just those of us in Europe. And we Germans need Europe more than the others. Germany is the country with the longest border, the most neighbours, and is, by population and economic strength, the number one in Europe.

An economy can survive with 10% of the population insolation. It can't survive when 50% of the population is in isolation.

Each individual member of a co-operative society works with that interest which is inseparable from the new position he enjoys. Each has an interest in the other.

The U.K. is fortunate in its geographical position. We're an island. But we are living in a completely interconnected world where disruptions in countries far away will have major impacts.

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

It's funny: your happiness is contingent on a bigger picture besides just yourself.

In America, you complain about job losses because of China, but here, we carry all of the environmental costs.

Do not let ASEAN become a playing card for the competition among major countries.

I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't.

Vincent and I are entwined creatively every day of our lives. That is a really big part of the relationship for us and what binds us really.

Soon, I'm going to need help crossing the street.

The band can't exist without the crowd, and the crowd wouldn't be there if it wasn't for the band, and it really is something magical that people need.

The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.

Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.

I always think that change is like a daisy chain.

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

I'm not the same without the 10 other guys on that football field playing their tail off to move the ball down the field.

It's hard to get people to overcome the thought that they have to take care of themselves first. It's hard to get players to give in to the group and become selfless as opposed to selfish.

What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.

We should be developing spaces and places that are thinking about how we care for the group vs. asking the individual to take care of themselves.