Quotes About Interdependence

Our farmers have become family.

Look, here's the deal: The Chiefs' fate and the Royals' fate, that's my fate.

I think that's what you need throughout your lineup. You need guys to help each other and feed off each other and to have that chemistry.

As I've gotten older, I've become much more effective at seeking and accepting help and bringing other people into the discussion. You start to understand that you can't control or fix everything on your own.

There is no Dubai and Abu Dhabi; we are one. Whoever doesn't understand this should do their homework before they start talking. We will be there for each other when we need it.

Policing is an integral part of governance. It is a whole, but it is also a part of the larger whole. Just like a human organ like the head, it's got intelligence, stamina, strategy and surveillance. But it cannot function independently in the absence of other life-sustaining organs.

We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.

You have to know how to co-operate with other people if you want to stay alive and raise children. And to do that, you need to know something about them. You need to know who loves whom, who hates whom, who is sleeping with whom. Who is honest, who is a cheat.

But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.

Player X might be the best outside back, but does that player help the best wide player be as good?

When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.

We need a wider sense of community because we're all on the same planet.

Machines and people are both necessary for Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Google, and neither is sufficient on its own.

Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.

Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.

My parents were very, very close; they pretty much grew up together. They were born in 1912. They were each other's only boyfriend and girlfriend. They were - to use a contemporary term I hate - co-dependent, and they had me very late. So they had their way of doing things, and they reinforced each other.

The dynamic of globalisation in financial and economic terms, but also in geopolitical terms, confronts Europeans with a stark choice: live together, share a common destiny and count in the world; or face the prospect of disunity and decline.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

Soul and habitat--we are finally in a position to know this--are correlates of one another.

we two clinging to twigs of each other in the tide amazed our identities survive

the line between society and organism is unclear.

nothing contains all the ingredients of ongoing existence within itself; nothing is self-sufficient.

It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.

I wondered if there was any way to live amongst other people and refuse to be harnessed by their expectations and dependencies.