Quotes About Commonality

You always have to come from the element of 'What do you have in common?' first. It makes it easier to work through your differences.

Americans know that we have more in common than we do differences.

Some films clearly seem to divide people. And I do think there's something incredibly exciting about the commonality of us as human beings, which some films are lucky enough to tap into.

It requires some intelligent reframing to make people see commonalities that they don't otherwise see. To me, the Tea Party and the Occupy movement are, in many ways, saying the same thing, but it requires a bit of imagination to get people to see that.

All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.

You get along better with people when the emphasis is on similarities between you. The difference between conflict with a friend and conflict with a difficult person is that with a friend the conflict is tempered by the common ground you share. Success in communication depends on finding common ground before attempting to redirect the interaction toward a new outcome. Obviously, reducing differences is essential to your success in dealing with people you can't stand.

We're all different in many ways and alike in many ways and special in some sort of way.

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.

As a species, all the things we do are unique, and are also seen all over the natural world.

At this last stop before the road enters the endless forest, what we have in common with others can loom larger than what separates us.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal. —John F. Kennedy

You have to be able to differentiate between the different areas of life. It shows that we're all separate people, we're all different, but we're all the same.

Are we not all the same? Do we not all strive to simply have enough?

Whereas traditional reductionism sought to find the commonality underlying diversity in reference to a shared substance, such as material atoms, contemporary systems theory seeks to find common features in terms of shared aspects of organization.

Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.

The same things go on everywhere, whether you're from the city, the country or wherever.

When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.

While we celebrate our diversity, what surprises me time and time again as I travel around the constituency is that we are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us.

I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.

Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race.

We simply must find ways both to bridge the differences that still seem to divide us and focus on the things that we share.

At the end of the day, the one commonality that both Hindi cinema and Hollywood share is that they are full of talented and inspirational people. Outside of this, there are many differences, from the scheduling and rehearsal to promotion and directing techniques.

They also explain many common points in the archaeological finds of these civilizations as due to man's genetic commonality. Thus

As believers we all have an opportunity and moral obligation to recognize our spiritual common ground; to rise above our differences; to combat prejudice and intolerance.