Symbiotic Quotes

#1. In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#2. You've always got to be smart enough to go 'Well they're going to have to bring some of their own in'. We don't want to be a monopoly where we get shoved out, it has to be symbiotic.

Sam Worthington

#3. It's a word called symbiotic, you send the messages and it comes back in return. Together, it's a wonderful thing, it's why television is so great and film can never reach.

Robert Stack

#4. It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books - not part of me, all of me - and then the books themselves inform the sense of what I am. So the more I can be, the better the books will be.

Jeanette Winterson

#5. Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship, enjoyment at a distance.

Ingrid Newkirk

#6. There's sort of a very symbiotic thing that happens on good TV shows with great writers, which is that they start to sort of embrace who the actors are and try to make the roles more specific to what they bring and what they can do.

Lucas Neff

#7. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

Erich Fromm

#8. The cows shorten the grass, and the chickens eat the fly larvae and sanitize the pastures. This is a symbiotic relation.

Joel Salatin

#9. We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them.

Jon Ronson

#10. A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes.

William Irwin Thompson

#11. China and the U.S. have a very symbiotic relationship which will not decline any time soon. There are more shared interests as compared to shared differences and for this reason relations will continue to be good.

Mark Mobius

#12. I don't think anywhere is there a symbiotic relationship between caddie and player like there is in golf.

Johnny Miller

#13. My johns adored and worshipped me, therefore they empowered me. When I was 18, 19, and 20, I had a poor self-image and needed attention. It's hard for people who haven't been prostitutes to imagine, but I think it's often true. There can be a very symbiotic relationship happening.

Annie Sprinkle

#14. The world may think it idiotic,
Nor care at all we're symbiotic,
But I will say at once and twice:
I find it nice. I find it nice.

Edward Gorey

#15. We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.

Ram Dass

#16. We get along by a symbiotic adjustment of habits and with a minimum of that pale-mauve hostility you often find among women.

Margaret Atwood

#17. So you're a parasite? We like to think of it as symbiotic, but we can discuss biology another time.

Wesley Chu

#18. Hollywood and fashion are symbiotic partners, especially during awards season.

Brad Goreski

#19. Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it's as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny

Gayle Forman

#20. The relationship between the Jews and pagan Arabs was symbiotic in that not only were the Jews heavily Arabized, but the Arabs were also significantly influenced by Jewish beliefs and practices.

Reza Aslan

#21. We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us.

Terence McKenna

#22. I always try and bring screenplay, shooting and editing into a sort of symbiotic - as close into alignment as you possibly can get them, consistent, obviously, with the resources that you've got and the time you've got available.

Paul Greengrass

#23. There is an undeniable truth that as one progresses further in his understanding of a craft the rest of his life progresses along with it. This symbiotic relationship between all things is experienced on a daily basis, but rarely articulated through conscious thought.

Chris Matakas

#24. My wish for humanity is to invent a way to communicate between us and whatever comes next. And in the end that we the creator of the sentient sapient and the created we have a symbiotic relationship.

Sugata Mitra

#25. Dogs and humans are symbiotic species. We need each other.

Cynthia Heimel

#26. Our new economic approach is rooted in ideas which stress the importance of macro-economics, post neo-classical endogenous growth theory and the symbiotic relationships between growth and investment, and people and infrastructure.

Gordon Brown

#27. A fantastic actor in a scene that's just closed off will be good. But when working with a director who knows little tricks - correct music, slowly pushing in - that stunning performance will somehow become even better. I've always seen it as a symbiotic relationship.

Matthew Gray Gubler

#28. Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.

Inga Muscio

#29. Tech companies don't exist in a bubble; they draw from and feed into a larger community. Ideally, the relationship is symbiotic.

Ryan Holmes

#30. I love playing and I love singing, and the writing. There's kind of a symbiotic relationship between the writing and the playing.

Guy Clark

#31. A book is a living, breathing thing. It spends the first chapters of its life curled up in the mind, symbiotic with its creator as it grows fat and round. And then the book is born.

Emily Murdoch

#32. In the land you come from, you call us your conscience. In the land of Oomaldee, they call us innerus. Both consciences and innerus hail from the same species of innerbeings; we've always had a symbiotic relationship with humans.

L.R.W. Lee

#33. Hate is but a symbiotic need for love

Judy Azar LeBlanc

#34. Ayahuasca is a symbiotic ally of the human species.

Dennis McKenna

#35. There is a symbiotic desire to get closer and closer, to enter the self of what is being drawn, and, simultaneously, there is the foreknowledge of immanent distance. Such drawings aspire to be both a secret rendezvous and an au revoir! Alternately and ad infinitum.

John Berger

#36. So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him.

Archie Shepp

#37. This is what we had become, after the first symbiotic year of our living together: a couple who needed another couple to be around.

Emily Perkins

#38. And I don't mean this metaphorically. I want to be taken seriously as proposing that the ennui of modernity is the consequence of a disruptive symbiotic relationship between ourselves and vegetable nature.

Terence McKenna

#39. Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.

Bill Ayers

#40. There are considered to be three symbiotic relationships in nature: parasitism, commensalism, and mutualism.

George Walker

#41. It's a symbiotic relationship: those two excel at being idiots, and I excel at shooting idiots. Everyone gets what they want.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#42. I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts in exactly the same way.

Damian Lewis

#43. The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as an act of self-expression. We read because language renders unto us the vitality of real and imagined experience.

Marita Golden

#44. We humans need to do better with our vast minds and alchemical powers. Future radial poetries might be more symbiotic with the rest of consciousness.

Anne Waldman

#45. I speculate that we shall come to accept the more radical idea that each one of our genes is a symbiotic unit. We are gigantic colonies of symbiotic genes.

Richard Dawkins

#46. I think the relationship between print and film is symbiotic, it's more about evolving and complimenting your existing content. The two are very much interconnected.

Rankin

#47. A writer needs to write and a reader wants to read so this creates a symbiotic relationship, at least most of the time.

Terrance Zepke

#48. Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.

Julian Barnes

#49. One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors, and the characters start to come to life because you start to collaborate.

Carla Gugino

#50. Art and savagery, aesthetics and violence. Were they contradictory or symbiotic?

Christopher Brookmyre

#51. Quiet Days, they look at you, and you will become one with the holy river - nature forms a symbiotic relationship - absolute infinity, truly found, in harmonious caressing arms.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#52. The press has bravely and nobly eroded the public trust ... What I'm advocating is the media come work for us again. Remove themselves from the symbiotic relationship that they have developed with the power structure of corporations and of the politicians.

Jon Stewart

#53. Reciprocity, a symbiotic relationship, is a relationship in which two people have worked out certain terms. I am using you in certain ways; you are using me in certain ways. That is a balanced relationship.

Frederick Lenz

#54. If something's existence is contingent upon the existence of another entity, can we truthfully call them separate beings?

Chris Matakas

#55. The more closely two organisms depend upon each other the harder it becomes to tell where one organism ends and the other begins.

Chris Matakas