Top 61 Quotes About Commonality
#1. We need to have a paradigm shift in our consciousness. If we don't get our act together and come in commonality and understanding with the organisms that sustain us today, not only will we destroy those organisms, but we will destroy ourselves.
Paul Stamets
#2. Commonality as a shared estate is an essential paradox; one calling dynamics within dynamics. It invokes the standard of not having standards.
Dew Platt
#3. I may be wrong, but it seems that there may be some unraveling of the American tapestry. I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality. I don't see this as a good thing".
Richard Paul Evans
#4. Some friendships are formed by a commonality of interests and ideas: you both love judo or camping or making your own sausage. Other friendships are forged in alliance against a common enemy.
David Sedaris
#5. What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
Harrison Ford
#6. I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions.
Terence McKenna
#7. In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.
Shashi Tharoor
#8. What's great about art is that if you can reach people, if they hear or see what you do and it moves them, there's a commonality.
Shawn Colvin
#9. There are commonalities among all the pandemics that occur, and we can learn from them. One commonality is that they all come from animals. And the other commonality is that we wait too long.
Nathan Wolfe
#10. From the tiniest grain of sand to the brain of an Einstein, all existence, animate and inanimate, is the product of the same ninety-two elements that are themselves the harvest of the energy of the creation. At every turn an underlying commonality, a unity, emerges from within the diversity.
Gerald Schroeder
#11. All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
Park Chan-wook
#12. The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is joy.
Oprah Winfrey
#13. We have to have a commonality and purpose. We have to understand that each of us is dependent on the success of the others in the organization to reach the goals we're trying to accomplish. It's never an easy thing.
Rick Welts
#14. There can be no universal without diversity: the quest for the ultimate commonality would be pointless if we did not recognize the initial differences that explain just why we have to go in search of the universal.
Tariq Ramadan
#15. It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.
John Charles Polanyi
#16. A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.
Andrew O'Hagan
#18. Certainly I'm a Christian first and foremost. But I do believe in religious tolerance and finding the commonality between all of us. I think that's how we're all going to come together.
Dennis Quaid
#19. No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side.
Bob Riley
#20. There are so many issues that this country [the U.S.] has, and that the world faces, that it's important that we sit down and recognize our commonality. When we do that, we can actually work together to overcome some of the problems that we have. That, to me, is just a good starting place.
Paul Blackthorne
#21. Writing is a conduit. It opens up a passageway into the past. Not just for the writer, but for the reader too. Both readers and writer are linked by the commonality of human experience.
Lang Leav
#22. Everything is integral and interacts with everything else. This means that nothing is itself without everything else. There is a commonality, an integrity, an intimacy of the universe with itself.
Thomas Berry
#23. I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality.
Richard Paul Evans
#24. Art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception.
Dore Ashton
#25. I love work. I love putting together a group of people who are all doing the same thing. The commonality of purpose.
Scott Rudin
#26. I realized that an artist seeking to tell the truth in her art takes great courage. I recognize the courage required to bring children together from Israeli and Palestinian communities to find commonality in music as a very powerful and effective beginning towards Peace.
Yoko Ono
#27. Commonality can most easily be seen in the seven common traits that all explorers possessed: curiosity, hope, passion, courage, independence, self-discipline, and perseverance. Explorers
Martin Dugard
#28. By acknowledging and accepting the ultimate commonality, we can naturally and voluntarily develop the attitude of compassion and benevolence toward other people, other life-forms, and all beings. We will want to live for the good of all because we know that's the way we benefit ourselves, too.
Ilchi Lee
#29. The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.
Edward Tufte
#30. Among the most striking things that I have learned is how much we have in common. I've sat down with people everywhere, discussing what was in their hearts and on their minds. And it doesn't take long to find commonality, which is often overlooked, ignored, dismissed, and rejected otherwise.
Hillary Clinton
#31. What I love about 'The Chew' is that we have these celebrities come on, and you get to see them in a different light, cooking or enjoying food, when we usually don't see them in that setting. So it's a lot of fun for their fans to see them be normal people and having that commonality of food.
Carla Hall
#32. 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.
Tom Hooper
#33. We are way more powerful when we turn to each other and not on each other, when we celebrate our diversity, focus on our commonality, and together tear down the mighty walls of injustice.
Cynthia McKinney
#34. Each man is an island unto himself. But though a sea of difference may divide us, an entire world of commonality lies beneath.
James Rozoff
#35. Sometimes he wondered if most people experienced the world around them a little bit differently from their fellows, if the assumption of commonality was simply an illusion.
C.S. Harris
#36. None of us are any better than anyone else and none of us are any worse than anyone else, and we're all equal and whatever we can do to celebrate our commonality rather than our differences, which is what religion does, to me ... religion just compartmentalizes people and makes everybody into a box.
Ron Perlman
#37. We must seek together to address the good aspirations of people everywhere, for we are bound together through great commonality.
Bryant McGill
#38. Storytelling is among the oldest forms of communication. Storytelling is the commonality of all human beings, in all
places, in all times.
Rives Collins
#39. The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.
Barbara Deming
#40. We are different races, nationalities, and ethnic groups. We are all Americans. Yes, we fuss, we have differences of opinions, but we are all Americans. The important commonality is the fact that we all bleed red. We are humankind.
James Morris Robinson
#41. A belief in a policy of kindness, and a sense of commonality among all living creatures.
Dalai Lama XIV
#42. A powerful force drives the world toward a converging commonality, and that force is technology. ... Almost everyone everywhere wants all the things they have heard about, seen, or experienced via the new technologies.
Theodore Levitt
#43. I don't want to think too much about how I'm carving and what I'm carving - you are just carving away the excess clay and there's a piece underneath there. And it's kind of like getting out of the way. Maybe that's what the commonality is: It's getting out of the way so that the art can speak.
Erykah Badu
#45. Stop trying to explore what is different about yourselves and explore the commonality you have instead.
Rene Gaudette
#46. He knew exactly what it was like to lose a child. And that fact wouldn't matter in the least in this circumstance. There could be no commiseration among such people despite the seeming commonality of loss, because it was actually each parent's totally unique hell.
David Baldacci
#47. Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.
Rashida Jones
#48. Technological measures are important, but equally important is ... a consciousness of the commonality of all living beings and an emphasis on shared responsibility.
Vaclav Havel
#49. When I say that there's commonality, I mean more in terms of the sort of techniques by which we perceive Baroque and minimalist music rather than the techniques used to compose them. I know that's being sort of overly complicated.
Mahan Esfahani
#50. There is something desperately lonely about Barack Obama's universe. One gets the overwhelming sense of someone yearning for connection, for something that binds human beings together, for community and commonality, for what he repeatedly calls "the common good". This is hardly news.
Simon Critchley
#51. People trudge through most days with little excitement in their lives. But our digital age provides so many opportunities to give people an authentic view of who you are or what your company strives to be, thus creating touch points of commonality that draw you into closer friendship with others.
Dale Carnegie
#52. Finding beauty in the common is the sign of a gifted mind.
Bryant McGill
#53. If you ask what the people here are like, I must tell you, "Like people everywhere!" Uniformity marks the human race.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#54. If you hold a beggarly attitude, towards life,
do not expect everyone you meet, to be a philanthropist, to you
Kamini Arichandran
#55. Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have done unto yourself. Every major world religion has this rule in common and a God they should love.
Darrell Mowat
#57. Hopefully, someday we will both realize that despite our sharp differences, you and I have more in common than we think.
Ray Bourhis
#58. The only thing she and Tilly had in common was their carbon base.
James S.A. Corey
#59. As sensory experience junkies, we have been blinded to the majesty in the common.
Bryant McGill
#60. What is shared in common is infinitely more significant than what apparently divides.
Dave Mearns
#61. The essence of diversity is the individual's experience of it. Diversity is about personalised shades of experience emanating from universal colours of humanity, but each person takes from the universal what is relevant to them and alters it by their own interpersonal experience.
Camila Batmanghelidjh
