Human Relationships Quotes - Page 4

• We care if people like what we did. If you're just making records for yourself, why put them out and do all these interviews and do touring? I'm a huge music fan, and this is what I do with my artistic time. It's all I really do, except hang out with my family. I value human relationships, and it's a way for me to interact with the world and feel like I'm part of something.

  Stephen Malkmus

  People, Care, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is a rule in sailing where the more maneuverable ship should give way to the less maneuverable craft. I think this is sometimes a good rule to follow in human relationships as well.

  Joyce Brothers

  Thinking, Giving, Sailing

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• If I have learned anything about the purpose, meaning, and significance of life over the years, I have learned that, for a Christian, it is not found in any job, even a job like mine. It is not found in any human relationship, no matter how important. Nor is it found in any accomplishment, no matter how significant. Meaning, purpose, and significance are found only by aligning our lives with God's purposes in lives committed to following Jesus Christ.

  Richard Stearns

  Christian, Jesus, Accomplishment

  Richard Stearns (2014). “Stearns 2 in 1: The Hole in Our Gospel and Unfinished”, p.371, Thomas Nelson

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• The very function of creativity, of the elaboration of the human condition only enlarges the human spirit and, I mean, as a writer I don't want to read political literature all the time. It would be terribly boring and, you know, abrasive, but just reading the insights, you know, partaking of the insights of a writer into phenomena, into society, into human relationships, both on a micro level and on a macro level, is already a function.

  Wole Soyinka

  Reading, Mean, Creativity

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Judo has been part of Japanese culture for a long time. It makes sense to me that this sport, which is both athletic and philosophical, was created in Japan. It is based on respect for the partner and for our elders as our teachers, which is very important and makes a strong, positive contribution to human relationships, and not only in sports. I am happy that life brought me to this wonderful sport as a child. It is like my first love.

  Vladimir Putin

  Sports, Teacher, Strong

  Source: www.rt.com

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• There are so many levels of understanding and experience when it comes to this thing we call love. In our human relationships, it can be vastly complicated. Each of us has our own unique love-history, perceptions, and expectations.

  Michael Beckwith

  Unique, Expectations, Understanding

  Interview with Christopher Caplan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The richness and endless variety of human relationships ... that's what authors, even the finest and greatest, only succeed in hinting at. It's a hopeless business, like trying to dip up the ocean with a tea-spoon.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Ocean, Tea, Trying

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Mark J. Madigan (1993). “Keeping Fires Night and Day: Selected Letters of Dorothy Canfield Fisher”, p.94, University of Missouri Press

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• I've lived in a preindustrial (rural Argentina) as well as an industrial world. You experience a different sense of time in a community that works the land. Human relationships aren't professionalized or contractualized; family and friends take primacy. Life has much more continuity than discontinuity. There's a great deal of poetry in everyday life.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Time, Land, Community

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• In human relationships, as mutual love deepens, there comes a time when two friends convey their exchanges without words. They can sit in silence sharing an experience or simply enjoying each other's presence without saying anything.

  Thomas Keating

  Deep Love, Two Friends, Silence

  Thomas Keating (2012). “The Thomas Keating Reader: Selected Writings from the Contemplative Outreach Newsletter”, p.42, Lantern Books

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• Business, after all, is nothing more than a bunch of human relationships.

  Lee Iacocca

  Bunch, Humans, Human Relations

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• Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared world.

  Stefan Collini

  World, Able, Assuming

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• I wouldn't say I'm fixated on describing any kind of relationship whether it is a father and a son, or a family. I don't like it when people say that I'm particularly following the same line or that I'm only interested in family dramas. I'm interested in human relationships. The most intimate, the most delicate, and the most intriguing relationships are those within a family.

  Andrey Zvyagintsev

  Father, Drama, Son

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I wrote the book based on a blog that I keep. I also tweet. I don't think that for an incredibly old fart I'm totally behind the power curve. I really believe that the essentials of human relationships remain the same.

  Tom Peters

  Book, Believe, Thinking

  Source: iveybusinessjournal.com

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• In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

  Graham Greene

  Kindness, Lying, Thousand

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• The future of human relationships will be directly related to the cerebral functions. For this reason it is already a fundamental thing. In the past, and well until today, some South American countries have had a great neuropharmacological history, since the natives' times. It is necessary that we remind ourselves of the many licit and illicit drugs that were generated in our continent and that act on the brain.

  Rodolfo Llinas

  Country, Past, Drug

  Source: www.cerebromente.org.br

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• If the life-supporting ecosystems of the planet are to survive for future generations, the consumer society will have to dramatically curtail its use of resources - partly by shifting to high-quality, low-input durable goods and partly by seeking fulfillment through leisure, human relationships, and other nonmaterial avenues. We in the consumer society will have to live a technologically sophisticated version of the life-style currently practiced lower on the economic ladder.

  Alan Thein Durning

  Ecosystems, Style, Environmental

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• The notion that economic life is a distinct realm, governed by immutable laws of narrow self-interest, is giving way to a much older notion: economic life is only one strand in the rich web of human relationships.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Self, Law, Giving

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• The tension between the governed and the governing is what makes the world go 'round. It's not love, it's that tension, because that tension exists in love affairs. The whole idea of control is at the heart of human relationships. Control and resistance to control.

  William Safire

  Heart, Ideas, World

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• A little-recognized value of listening and inquiring relates to the realization that in human relationships, it is frequently not what the I've learned ... that it is best to give advice in only two circumstances: when it is requested and when it is a life-threatening situation.

  Andy Rooney

  Two, Giving, Advice

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• Men's bodies are our women's works of art. Given to us power of control, we will never carelessly throw them in to fill up the gaps in human relationships made by international ambitions and greeds ... War will pass when intellectual culture and activity have made possible to the female an equal share in the governance of modern national life; it will probably not pass away much sooner; its extinction will not be delayed much longer.

  Olive Schreiner

  Art, War, Ambition

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• I'm no quitter, unless it comes to human relationships or math and science.

  Dov Davidoff

  Math, Quitter, Humans

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• The complexity of human relationships is never simple to follow; it is like intricate lacework, but lacework made of steel.

  Mignon G. Eberhart

  Simple, Steel, Complexity Of Human

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• ... [L]ess than at any time does a simple reproduction of reality tell us anything about reality. A photograph of the Krupp works or GEC yields almost nothing about those institutions. Reality proper has slipped into the functional. The reification of human relationships, the factory, let's say, no longer reveals these relationships. Therefore something has to be constructed, something artificial, something set up.

  Walter Benjamin

  Simple, Reality, Yield

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• Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.

  Willa Cather

  Ego, Half, Pulling Away

  Willa Cather (2011). “My Mortal Enemy”, p.18, Vintage

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• With the Fall all became abnormal. It is not just that the individual is separated from God by his true moral guilt, but each of us is not what God made us to be. Beyond each of us as individuals, human relationships are not what God meant them to be. And beyond that, nature is abnormal - the whole cause-and-effect significant history is now abnormal. To say it another way: there is much in history now which should not be.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Fall, Guilt, Abnormal

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of spirituality”

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