Quotes About Interdependence

We "bowl alone," as sociologist Robert Putnam has put it. Yet this fails to account for a monumental shift in whom we join and for what. We still join together, but now we join for services too expensive to purchase alone—child care, the schools our children attend, recreational facilities, and security...

If God had intended us to be alone, there would be more pleasure in massaging our own shoulders.

I hold the very simpleminded view that everything is related to everything else-and that every one is related to everyone else, and that every species is related to every other. The only way out of this tissue of interrelations, it seems to me, is to stop paying attention, and to substitute something else-hallucination, greed, pride, or hatred, for example-for sensuous connection to the facts. I think it is not the world's task to entertain us, but ours to take an interest in the world.

If you join two lives, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far.

To learn to ask for help and guidance from people who are trustworthy,

If component A should be protected from changes in component B, then component B should depend on component A.

When the I metric is 1, it means that no other component depends on this component (Ca = 0), and this component does depend on other components (Ce > 0). This is as instable as a component can get; it is irresponsible and dependent. Its lack of dependents gives it no reason not to change, and the components that it depends on may give it ample reason to change.

Interdependence remains the law, independence a rare and often fatal exception. Better to place yourself in a position of mutual dependence, then, and to follow this critical law rather than look for its reversal. You will not have the unbearable pressure of being on top, and the master above you will in essence be your slave, for he will depend on you.

Since power is a human creation, it is inevitably increased by contact with other people.

There is nothing worse than feeling dependent on other people. Dependency makes you vulnerable to all kinds of emotions—betrayal, disappointment, frustration—that play havoc with your mental balance.

He did not think anyone needed to look after Nynaeve; around Nynaeve, to his mind, other people needed someone to look after them.

If you tried to solve every problem yourself, you ended by solving none.

The pin was the smallest part of a pair of scissors, and the easiest made, but without it, the scissors cut no cloth.

Todo está… relacionado, Rand —continuó hablando el Ogier, como si no lo hubiera escuchado—. Se trate de seres vivos o no, con capacidad de pensar o sin ella, todo lo que existe está vinculado a una totalidad. El árbol no piensa, pero forma parte de un conjunto, el cual posee… un sentimiento.

Better Me + Better You = Better Us

They say you are not you except in terms of relation to other people. If there weren't any other people there wouldn't be any you because what you do which is what you are only has meaning in relation to other people.

It is virtually impossible to understand how biology works outside the context of environment.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

people who act alone or as individuals limit their chances for economic success.

The present could never be untethered from the past, you couldn't understand one without the other.

Everyone is related, and everything is connected.

En la vida real cuando uno rompe los vínculos que lo mantienen unido en la trama de la vida, también deja un hueco, un hueco enorme, pero eso no significa que no se le pueda rescatar, sí se puede, pero antes es necesario que uno reconozca cuáles son los hilos invisibles que nos mantienen unidos a los demás. Cuáles son nuestros puntos de unión. Nuestros puntos de contacto.

My grandmother had a very interesting theory; she said that each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help.

I don't have a master. I'm not sure if I have an equal.