Quotes About Shared

The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there??shared vision and values.

tragedy of the commons

The wetland created by the beaver, like the thriving platform created by the Twitter founders, invites variation because it is an open platform where resources are shared as much as they are protected.

We are all human. That means there is something about our experience that is the same. Otherwise, we would not all be human.

I couldn't understand how belief systems could be so important to people that they were willing to risk the destruction of the world to protect them. I came to realize that shared belief systems made people intelligible to one another—and that the systems weren't just about belief.

People who live by the same code are rendered mutually predictable to one another. They act in keeping with each other's expectations and desires. They can cooperate. They can even compete peacefully, because everyone knows what to expect from everyone else. A shared belief system, partly psychological, partly acted out, simplifies everyone—in their own eyes, and in the eyes of others.

Asimismo, las creencias compartidas simplifican el mundo porque las personas que saben qué esperar de las demás pueden cooperar para domesticarlo.

If and when the gods come to an agreement about their relative positions—more particularly, if they arrange themselves into a hierarchy—it means that peace has genuinely been established, because peace is the establishment of a shared hierarchy of divinity, of value. Thus, an eternal question emerges whenever people of different backgrounds are required to deal with one another on a relatively permanent basis: What do all gods share that makes them gods? What is God, in essence?

Mathematics, mostly, is a communal enterprise, each advance the product of a huge network of minds working toward a common purpose, even if we accord special honor to the person who places the last stone in the arch.

The only true and sustainable prosperity is shared prosperity.

It is a mark of great spiritual laziness to take the world we inherit as a given. It is constantly in flux, and it is our own projective mind that creates it. A true visionary sees society itself as a shared projection, a kind of hologram we are all cocreating with no permanent basis, one that can always be reimagined based on the shifting views of human nature that we hold.

True friendship and intimacy take shape only when we are present enough to experience more than just one narrative, as well as to participate in our shared human experiences. Suddenly

Culture thus is a matter of shared meanings, but it is not only that: it is also one of the ways in which exclusion, inequality, and power structures are maintained and reproduced.

All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.

The nature of a football team means you're relying on 10 other guys. Even then, that doesn't guarantee a win.

Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900 to about 1978.

Our challenge is to remind ourselves that we do have common interest, common grounds, and common dreams.

There's so much history amongst ourselve that reminds us of something, and we start cracking up.

The ritual of film-going in some sense replaced that of churchgoing, because you share something communal, sometimes mystical.

As elected officials, we were sent to the halls of government by our neighbors to do their work - and much work needs to be done. Remembering our shared experiences with the people we represent makes us better and more accountable civil servants.

We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.

At the 'Guardian,' we have a special relationship with our readers. This relationship is not just about the news; it's about a shared sense of purpose and a commitment to understand and illuminate our times.

State-building can not be imposed. Its foundation must be a shared understanding between those who govern, and those who give their consent to be governed - the 'deal' between citizen and state.

We don't all look alike - some people think they're tough, some people think they're fragile - but in the end, we share a lot.