Top 100 Mutually Quotes
#1. Imagine working 20% smarter instead of 20% longer ... Work-life balance and startup success at any stage aren't mutually exclusive. There are enough hours in the day to be effective and present.
David Cummings
#2. There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.
Aeschylus
#3. Catchy acronym in the consulting world, "MECE," which stands for "mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive.
Stanley McChrystal
#4. Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul.
Bessie Head
#5. Conversation can be as mutually incomprehensible as foreign languages. We need the different and complementary perspectives of the various yogas - and ideally of all religions - not only to reach God but to reach each other.
Huston Smith
#6. You people talk about the living and the dead as if they were two mutually exclusive categories. As if you cannot have a river that is also a road, or a song that is also a color.
Neil Gaiman
#7. People with victim mentality attracts people in their lives that tease them, abuse them and even bully them instead of building mutually benefitting relationships
Sunday Adelaja
#8. Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and fulfillment are in no way linked to coercive subjugation. This feminist vision of the sexual imaginary is the space few men seem able to enter.
Bell Hooks
#9. The Great Work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period of human devastation of the Earth to a period when humans would be present to the planet in a mutually beneficial manner.
Thomas Berry
#10. With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow.
Max McKeown
#11. At this stage they were killers. I mean this stage in our mutually culpable history. Who
Peter Heller
#12. On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will recoil with horror and disband their troops.
Alfred Nobel
#13. Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to make whatever economic transactions they can mutually agree to.
Thomas Sowell
#14. Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.
Ofra Strauss
#15. Prostitution is really the only crime in the penal law where two people are doing a thing mutually agreed upon and yet only one, the female partner, is subject to arrest.
Kate Millett
#16. Mutually Assured Destruction, MAD, works only as long as it works; it does not know what to do if deterrence fails, for it envisions no defensive capabilities. A deterrent works until it is needed; then one needs defenses.
Jerry Pournelle
#17. The businesses that thrive over the long haul are likely to be those that understand that cost cutting and revenue growing aren't mutually exclusive. Eternal vigilance to both the top and bottom lines is the new ticket to prosperity.
Howard Schultz
#18. The word and the image mutually excluded each other. Joseph was a literary man to his very marrow; he put faith in the invisible Word; it was the most miraculous thing in all the world; though without form it had more power than anything endowed with form
Lion Feuchtwanger
#19. The gulf between Virginia and Maryland isn't only a function of geography. It's also sociological. Indeed, it's probably not much of an exaggeration to say that Maryland suburbanites and Virginia suburbanites constitute two mutually hostile tribes.
Timothy Noah
#20. Life in Ravensbruck took place on two separate levels, mutually impossible. One, the observable, external life, grew every day more horrible. The other, the life we lived with God, grew daily better, truth upon truth, glory upon glory.
Corrie Ten Boom
#21. I will make the greatest efforts to seek mutually acceptable interaction between Taiwan and mainland China.
Tsai Ing-wen
#22. Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.
Jean De La Bruyere
#23. Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
Niels Bohr
#24. You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#25. Commercialization of assets off the planet would mutually reinforce the growth of interplanetary communication.
Vint Cerf
#26. By this action, the Government has proved that so long as it exists, none of us are truly free. Government and freedom are mutually exclusive. So if we value freedom, there's only one conclusion. It's time to get rid of this leftover relic we call Government.
Max Barry
#27. I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.
Patti Smith
#28. Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.
Rudolf Virchow
#29. In music, you collaborate with people. It's supposed to be a mutually beneficial thing.
Kid Cudi
#30. Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.
Kim Cattrall
#31. I've tried, in 'Bloodmoney,' to tell a story that gets at the crazy relationship between the ISI and the CIA, these absolutely fascinating, often mutually destructive two scorpions in a bottle kind of relationship that they have.
David Ignatius
#32. I don't think that brutality and idealism are mutually exclusive. It's a common denominator in my work - rabid idealism.
Richard Grossman
#33. Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two.
Roy H. Williams
#34. Today when two people decide upon a thoughtless and precipitate abbreviation of the physical space between them, they think, at least at that moment, that they're mutually attracted and drawn together by an overwhelming force.
Wislawa Szymborska
#35. Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together
Clyde Kluckhohn
#36. Prayer and action ... can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation.
Henri Nouwen
#37. Anti-intellectualism and fullness of the Holy Spirit are mutually incompatible. Wherever the Holy Spirit has given His freedom, truth is bound to matter.
John R.W. Stott
#38. It's a common perception that science and religion are mutually exclusive. But there are many scientists who would consider themselves to be spiritual people.
Katharine Hayhoe
#39. A strategy is nothing more than a commitment to a set of coherent, mutually reinforcing policies or behaviors aimed at achieving a specific competitive goal.
Anonymous
#40. It is an old remark, that all arts and sciences have a mutual dependence upon each other ... Thus men, very different in genius and pursuits, become mutually subservient to each other; and a very useful kind of commerce is established by which the old arts are improved, and new ones daily invented.
Mark Kurlansky
#41. Being a defense hawk and a budget hawk are not mutually exclusive.
Pete Hegseth
#42. When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#43. After the final buzzer, I'm officially giving up men, buying several vibrators, and joining a convent. Actually, I'm pretty sure those last two things are mutually exclusive, so ... Just the vibrators, then.
Julie Johnson
#44. The U.S. and China need to take steps - mostly individually, sometimes together - that will have the mutually beneficial effect of supporting and sustaining economic growth.
Henry Paulson
#45. Priam and Achilles meet in the very twilight of their lives. Their extinction is certain and there will be no reward for behaving well, and yet, in the face of implacable fate and an indifferent universe, they mutually assert the highest ideals of their humanity.
Caroline Alexander
#46. Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies; or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general advantage.
Maria Edgeworth
#47. The next morning, beer and I mutually decided our relationship wasn't going to work out.
Denise Grover Swank
#48. The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
#49. I like to define networking as cultivating mutually beneficial, give-and-take, win-win relationships ... The end result may be to develop a large and diverse group of people who will gladly and continually refer a lot of business to us, while we do the same for them.
Bob Burg
#50. I believe that traditional religious belief and scientific knowledge depict the universe in radically different ways. At the bedrock they are incompatible and mutually exclusive.
E. O. Wilson
#51. I have gone from a Barry Goldwater Republican to a New Democrat, but I think my underlying values have remained pretty constant; individual responsibility and community. I do not see those as being mutually inconsistent.
Hillary Clinton
#52. Humor and profundity are not mutually exclusive, and life can be, and mostly is, serious and funny simultaneously. It's not always easy to capture that in words, but when T.M. Shine manages to do so, it's a sign of a master at work.
Tom Shroder
#53. What keeps me motivated is going out to the field and seeing programs that incorporate a focus on both people and the planet, and seeing how mutually reinforcing they can really be.
Helene D. Gayle
#54. The unit had organized itself like a small-market baseball team enjoying an unlikely pennant run: talented journeymen working together, no stars, no egos, mutually supportive, and above all ruthlessly and relentlessly effective.
Lee Child
#55. Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
Honore De Balzac
#56. A group is as healthy as its 'social contract' is clear; a congregation as faithful as its covenant is mutually understood; a pastor as effective as the pastor's and people's commitment to trust and integrity is honored, guarded, and fulfilled.
David Augsburger
#57. The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.
Andrew Young
#58. Blessings and burdens are not mutually exclusive.
Ryan Holiday
#59. By employing the intelligence of natural systems we can create industry, buildings, even regional plans that see nature and commerce not as mutually exclusive but mutually coexisting.
Brad Pitt
#61. Heracles' heroic world and Deianeira's warmth and tenderness are mutually exclusive. Sophocles seeks not to vindicate the one against the other, but to dramatize the tragedy of their irreconcilability and their mutual destructiveness.
Charles Segal
#62. In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.
Benjamin Disraeli
#63. The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
Carl Sagan
#64. Some Christians make the mistake of pitting love against law, as if the two were mutually exclusive. You either have a religion of love or a religion of law. But such an equation is profoundly unbiblical.
Kevin DeYoung
#65. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.
Thomas Jefferson
#66. God did not create a human family made up of segregated, dissociated, mutually independent members. No; he would have them all united by the bond of total love of Him and consequent self-dedication to assisting each other to maintain that bond intact.
Pope Pius XII
#67. Being black and speaking properly are not mutually exclusive. My father was an African, and he spoke beautifully at home. Nelson Mandela speaks beautifully. Should Mandela put his hat on backwards and say, 'Yo, homey, this is Nelson. Yo, Winnie, yo, this is def'?
Franklyn Ajaye
#68. Constructive trade, the two-way exchange of goods and services, is the most efficient and logical way for each nation ... to build a stable prosperity, a prosperity based not on aid, but on mutually beneficial economic contacts.
Ronald Reagan
#69. There's sort of a theory that's going around in the China-watching community about a perfect storm coming up with the 2008 Olympics, a U.S. election and a Taiwanese election, some sort of mutually reinforcing explosion and crisis.
Dennis C. Blair
#70. I am not saying that government has nothing to offer. Government has an important role in fostering an environment conducive to business creation while also protecting its citizens. These are not mutually exclusive.
Sher Valenzuela
#71. So much for the journalist and the news being mutually exclusive. Nash
Chuck Palahniuk
#72. We must consider not only why the classical theory of democracy appears to be in contradiction with the observed practice, but also why the many different responses to this observation, though mutually incompatible, all share the belief that democracy is the best form of political organization.
Moses Finley
#73. Separate and together cease to be mutually exclusive and instead become, in psychoanalyst Christopher Bolla's phrase, reciprocally enhancing and mutually informative.
Mark Epstein
#74. The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
Garrett Hardin
#75. Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love.
Timothy Keller
#76. The father is the sun, the mother is the moon and the light they mutually shed on their kids makes them bright stars against a very dark night.
Shmuley Boteach
#77. It's much better to invite the audience to be part of your show rather than saying, "I command you to do this." The other thing is, you have to follow through. If you initiate a game and they take part, you can't stop until it reaches a mutually satisfying resolution.
Stephen Colbert
#78. For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
#79. We must learn to talk with each other, and we mutually must understand and accept one another in our extraordinary differences.
Karl Jaspers
#80. Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their aim, or I can let them nourish each other.
Ellen Gilchrist
#81. I'm going to get changed," I said.
"Need help?"
"Wow. You're so chivalrous, Daemon."
His smile widened, flashing deep dimples. "Well, the experience
would be mutually beneficial. I promise.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#82. Whereas many philosophers and theologians appear to possess an emotional attachment to their theories and ideas ... scientists feel no qualms about suggesting different but mutually exclusive explanations for the same phenomenon.
Frank J. Tipler
#83. The Chinese side stands ready to work with Morocco to consolidate and deepen mutually beneficial cooperation and continuously push forward the development of Sino-Moroccan ties in the spirit of boosting understanding, broadening cooperation for common development.
Wu Bangguo
#84. We are seeking another basic outlook: the world as an organization. This would profoundly change categories of our thinking and influence our practical attitudes. We must envision the biosphere as a whole with mutually reinforcing or mutually destructive inter-dependencies.
Ludwig Von Bertalanffy
#85. Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.
Aldous Huxley
#86. You can truly grieve for every officer who's been lost in the line of duty in this country, and still be troubled by cases of police overreach, those two ideas are not mutually exclusive. You can have great regard for law enforcement and still want them to be held to high standards.
Jon Stewart
#87. India and China have not shied away from addressing boundary questions, have wisdom to find a fair and mutually acceptable solution ... We have been able to put all issues on the table.
Li Keqiang
#88. Discipline and freedom are not mutually exclusive but mutually dependent because otherwise, you'd sink into chaos.
Paulo Coelho
#89. It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.
Beryl Bainbridge
#90. I didn't want someone who would have to force himself to love me or for me to pretend that I loved him back. I had always hoped that love would be mutually instinctual and natural- as easy as breathing
Tina Reber
#91. Like storytelling, that incessant loving rush of explaining and repositioning and telling again, all for the sake of finding something shared, something mutually recognized
so interpreting seemed to me. It seemed a kind of goodness.
Leah Hager Cohen
#92. What do you want to be, free or happy? How about if they really are mutually exclusive options? What is freedom anyway? How does humanity govern itself when each person can have anything they want? How does humanity govern itself when nothing is natural?
Jo Walton
#93. Definition of a relationship - an enduring, mutually-agreed upon connection or union, which fulfills certain needs of the individuals involved and the society in which they live.
Leo Buscaglia
#94. Competition between women is good only if it does not prevail; that is to say if it coexists with affinity, affection, with a real sense of being mutually indispensable, with sudden peaks of solidarity in spite of envy, jealousy and the whole inevitable cohort of bad feelings.
Elena Ferrante
#95. The sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm. He blends everything into a harmonious whole ... He blends the disparities of ten thousand years into one complete purity. All things are blended like this and mutually involve each other.
Zhuangzi
#97. The free flow of people across borders is not to be confused with the free flow of goods across borders. Free trade is a positive-sum game. Contrary to illegal immigration, it is always invited, consensual and hence mutually beneficial to the parties involved.
Ilana Mercer
#98. Networking is simply the cultivating of mutually beneficial, give and take, win-win relationships. It works best, however, when emphasizing the "give" part.
Bob Burg
#99. Our knowledge and all of our ideas are mutually connected; the more complicated they are, the more numerous must be the roads that lead to them and depart from them.
Cesare Beccaria
#100. The truth of the matter is, we can certainly fight against terrorism and fight terrorist groups around the world without having to give up our own civil liberties. They're not mutually exclusive.
John Kiriakou
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