Interdependent Relationships Quotes

Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing ‘patterns of change’ rather than static ‘snapshots.’

Families are ecosystems. Each life grows in response to the lives around it

When you choose to become part of a team, you cease to exist as an individual.

Co-dependence...taking someone else's temperature to see how you feel.

Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.

All government—indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act,—is founded on compromise and barter.

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

in all codependent relationships, the rescuer needs the victim as much as the victim needs the rescuer.

An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.

Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

Collaborative governance needs to be more than calling on the advice and competence of others to make up for our episcopal shortcomings. Rather, governance involves seeking how God is revealing his work through others in the community.

There is no closed figure in nature. Every shape participates with another. No one thing is independent of another, and one thing rhymes with another, and light gives them shape.

Security is something that serves Israeli interests and Palestinian interests. You have a common threat and you have a common enemy and it's important to deal with that as partners.

Businesses and other human endeavors are also systems. They, too, are bound by invisible fabrics of interrelated actions, which often take years to fully play out their effects on each other. Since we are part of that lacework ourselves, it's doubly hard to see the whole pattern of change. Instead we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system, and wonder why our deepest problems never seem to get resolved.

Business is a primary arrangement on God's part for people to love one another and serve one another.

There's no such thing as an independent person.

We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.

There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences

They say behind every great man is a great woman, but I think it works the other way round as well.

We have a rich and vibrant partner ecosystem with several thousand formal business partners. Some of them are very large companies that we collaborate with in many ways.

Men and women may form associations for and among themselves and be governed by stipulations that are mutually acceptable.

People in a cluster are bound to each other automatically, and can see each other automatically.