Quotes About Relating To Others

#1. As Kai Erikson has put it, traumatised people 'may be said to have experienced not only a) a changed sense of self and b) a changed way of relating to others but c) a changed world view altogether'. In that first

Robert Kenny

#2. It is our nature to be strong and independent. Yet, there is no room for the ego in suffering. This stripping of my ego opens the doors to authentic relating to others. As I am drawn closer to others, I am experiencing God in the here and now.

Timothy J. Keller

#3. Our attitudes, our perspectives, our ways of relating to others, our methods of responding to the circumstances of the world around us, our self-image, even our understanding of God have all been shaped by the destructive values and dehumanizing structures of the world's brokenness.

M. Robert Mulholland Jr.

#4. Citizens should be looked to for what they can give of their own nobility, virtue, creative thinking, passion, and natural talent for community building and relating to others.

Marianne Williamson

#5. The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others.

James A. Garfield

#6. We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.

Tony Scott

#7. In my role of agent for Miss Hathaway, I would like to say that she does not answer questions relating to this subject.

Steve Carell

#8. I'm relating to a period that doesn't exist anymore.

Manolo Blahnik

#9. I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact with the audience. We love the fact that the audience will change us. The way the audience responds makes us change our performance.

Simon Callow

#10. I have excellent information and proof relating to conduct of the FBI, .. I can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that this case is an FBI cover-up.

Zacarias Moussaoui

#11. I am unable, mentally incapable, of relating the dead thing, the broken body refusing to divulge why or where the occupant has gone, to the thing that was alive.

Caitlin Thomas

#12. That the policies - from energy to labor policies, trade policies, government policies relating to debt and deficits are all aligning in such a way that America, far from being one of the places people are running from, is a place people are going to come to and add jobs.

Mitt Romney

#13. A human being is a spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation.

Soren Kierkegaard

#14. It is fine to commiserate with a man about his bad experience with a previous partner, but the instant he uses her as an excuse to mistreat you, stop believing anything he tells you about that relationship and instead recognize it as a sign that he has problems with relating to women.

Lundy Bancroft

#15. When I photograph, I am always relating things to one another. Photography shows the connection between things, how they relate.

Leonard Freed

#16. Be trustworthy. Steadiness and integrity lead to energetic opening in the other as the blocks in relating dissolve away with deepening trust over time.

John Friend

#17. We also self-inflict violence, because violence is our only way of relating to the world, to others and to ourselves.

Bryant McGill

#18. mandate was sweeping.The law directed us to investigate "facts and circumstances relating to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001," including those relating

Anonymous

#19. All our differences and similarities are vast and rich - their interplay is the fabric of all relating. It's hard to invent rules out of such complexity; we improvise as we learn about each other.

Carol A. Queen

#20. The ways in which readers encounter and relate to information is dramatically influenced by their education as well as their awareness of the pitfalls relating to the information source.

Nayef Al-Rodhan

#21. Everyone must feel that he is the supreme arbiter of his own [destiny], that no power on earth shall rise over him, that he is and always shall be sovereign of himself and all relating to his individuality. Then only shall all men realize security of person and property.

Josiah Warren

#22. I immerse myself right into my character whether or not I'm relating to people live as an actor on stage or whatever.

Peter Cullen

#23. It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.

Wynton Marsalis

#24. There is always something behind patience and impatience! Be careful enough to understand these two things any time you meet anybody; the patience and impatience of the person!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#25. The trouble with scary people is
everyone's too scared
to tell them how scary they are

Janey Colbourne

#26. If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual's pain gained meaning was through its communication to others.

Diane Wood Middlebrook

#27. Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others.

Erich Fromm

#28. The first step toward feeling compassion for others is to set the intention to try it out.

Sharon Salzberg

#29. And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.

Kurt Vonnegut

#30. A truly radical change is self-relating: it changes the very coordinates by means of which we measure change. In other words, a true change sets its own standards: it can only be measured by criteria that result from it.

Slavoj Zizek

#31. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#32. A lot of more modern films seem to just be out for violence or sex or what have you, without relating it to what's going within human beings. But every now and then one comes along that does that, and it's a joy.

Kim Hunter

#33. What I believe to be one of the major tragedies in the Church today. Namely, that evangelicals are biblical, but not contemporary, while liberals are contemporary but not biblical, and almost nobody is building bridges and relating the biblical text to the modern context

John Stott

#34. After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

Jaron Lanier

#35. I've stayed away from Twitter for a long time because I sort of didn't trust myself with such an intimate but very public way of relating to the world, but I feel like I've studied it enough.

Elizabeth Reaser

#36. Look at this. A barstool, named Sven? Some old Swedish custom, the winter kicks in, weather gets harsh, after a while you find yourself relating to the furniture in ways you didn't expect?

Thomas Pynchon

#37. And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.

Rowan Williams

#38. I'm definitely very interested in doing female narrators that aren't typically feminine or emotional or soft - especially teenage girls - because I have such a hard time relating to so many of them that I read. They feel psychologically cuter to me than I ever was.

Andrea Seigel

#39. A residence of many years in Yorkshire, and an inveterate habit of collecting all kinds of odd and out-of-the-way information concerning men and matters, furnished me, when I left Yorkshire in 1872, with a large amount of material, collected in that county, relating to its eccentric children.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#40. The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life.

Susan Rothenberg

#41. Relationships don't exist ... Relating does.

Marshall Sylver

#42. The last thing we need to do, relating to teachers, is the key to a good education in this country is a strong teacher. I would have a minimum wage for all our teachers, $40,000 per year.

Bill Richardson

#43. Junior talks about it - relating to dozens if not hundreds of tribes. Even as the world tries to define you, narrow the definition of you, don't do it to yourself. True

Sherman Alexie

#44. In wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do

James Monroe

#45. When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It's a beautiful pointer. It never fails.

Adyashanti

#46. I sort of wanted to reveal this other side of Asia: Southeast Asia, where the Chinese have been wealthy for generations and have different ways of relating to money. I wanted to sort of reveal this world to readers.

Kevin Kwan

#47. I enjoy playing with a big band occasionally, but it's too restricting; you really don't have a chance to stretch out and do what you want to do. Getting that thing of relating to a large band is great experience; I relate much better, though, if it's a small band.

Art Pepper

#48. Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#49. Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.

Kevin Vanhoozer

#50. Atisha says: Awareness inside, compassion on the outside. Compassion is the outer side of awareness, the exterior of awareness. Awareness is your interiority, subjectivity. Compassion is relating with others, sharing with others.

Osho

#51. Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love. Rather, love is a way of being, a "giving to," not a 'falling for"; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.

Irvin D. Yalom

#52. What's increasingly clear is that when you are open to a discussion of leadership, and you're relating it to your company, it is much easier to get people to become open.

Kenneth Chenault