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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships. -- E. O. Wilson
Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships. -- Ross Perot
Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish. -- Barbara Smith
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Art problems are problems of human relationship. -- Josef Albers
I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships. -- Yash Chopra
Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships. -- L. Ron Hubbard
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. -- Graham Greene
Human relationships are not rocket science--the are far, far more complicated -- James W. Pennebaker
Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships. -- Daniel Goleman
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art. -- Jerzy Kosinski
Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives. -- Elizabeth Hardwick
It is not until you have the courage to engage in human relationships that you grow. -- Gary Zukav
Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships. -- Natalie Wood
We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers. -- Bernard Malamud
History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated. -- Johan Huizinga
Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways. -- Susan Orlean
An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other. -- Adrienne Rich
When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material. -- Joyce Maynard
Trying to run Congress without human relationships is like trying to run a car without motor oil. Should we be surprised when the whole thing freezes up? -- Jonathan Haidt
Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories. -- Jeffery Deaver
Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone. -- John Hannah
My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in life and navigate compelling human relationships. -- Vikas Swarup
I think if anything I am perhaps more inclined than most people are to be polite and considerate because I am aware that human relationships are innately fragile and kind of dangerous. -- Alex Colville
How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation. -- Paul Harris
Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society. -- John Grierson
When you let God be God you can let humans be humans. When we place God in His rightful place in our lives, we don't struggle so much when human relationships let us down. -- Joshua Harris
Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships. -- Lloyd Alexander
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people. -- Albert Camus
Fire can warm or consume, water can quench or drown, wind can caress or cut. And so it is with human relationships: we can both create and destroy, nurture and terrorize, traumatize and heal each other. -- Bruce D. Perry
I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or effects. -- Barbara Hershey
Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The relationship between God and his people was always the one having absolute primacy, the one that had basically to determine all human relationships, whether those within the covenanted community itself or those between the covenanted community and the outside world. -- David Novak
Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners appear to have more of a need for achievement, while in the East there's more need for affiliation. -- Daniel Goleman
If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and human relationships are not primary in a man's life. A man who places others first, above his own creative work, is an emotional parasite. -- Ayn Rand
Twisted' is similar to 'Pretty Little Liars' in that it's about trying to find out who did it, but it's more about the human relationships between characters and the strain that things can put on them. It's also a little bit of a social commentary piece, because it covers very timely issues. -- Avan Jogia
The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet at whim. There is a lack of self-consciousness and a fluidity to it that is absent from most human relationships. If someone acted that way to you, you'd feel claustrophobic pretty quickly. It's a boundary violation. -- Caroline Knapp
The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts--a child--as a competitor, an intrusion and an inconvenience.. . -- Mother Teresa
In the century now dawning, spirituality, visionary consciousness, and the ability to build and mend human relationships will be more important for the fate and safety of this nation than our capacity to forcefully subdue an enemy. Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want. -- Marianne Williamson
We have probably wondered in our many lonesome moments if there is one corner in this competitive, demanding world where it is safe to be relaxed, to expose ourselves to someone else, and to give unconditionally. It might be very small and hidden, but if this corner exists, it calls for a search through the complexities of our human relationships in order to find it. -- Henri Nouwen
Business is a cobweb of human relationships -- Ross Perot
Stories are the currency of human relationships. -- Robert McKee
Games are like Rorschachs made of human relationships. -- Bernie De Koven
I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships. -- Patricia Heaton
In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. -- Ayn Rand
The most unreliable thing in this world is human relationships. -- Jack Ma
All human aspirations are opportunities for brands to build relationships. -- Laura Busche
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. -- Barbara Bush
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. -- Barbara Bush
The final frontier may be human relationships, one person to another. -- Buzz Aldrin
Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family. -- Barbara Bush
Business, after all, is nothing more than a bunch of human relationships. -- Lee Iacocca
I'm no quitter, unless it comes to human relationships or math and science. -- Dov Davidoff
I'm fascinated with human relationships. I advocate the relationship you have with yourself. -- Greg Behrendt
The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection. -- Robin Sharma
The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection. -- Robin Sharma
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future... -- Albert Camus
Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love -- Bruce D. Perry
The ability to break a loved one's heart is the essential contradiction in human relationships. -- Amy Dickinson
You don't need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us. -- Christopher McCandless
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. Even your super weirdo creep cousin. -- Joseph Brodsky
Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships. -- Margaret Mead
A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships. -- Gore Vidal
Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself. -- Karl Marx
Trust is a skill, one that is an aspect of virtually all human practices, cultures, and relationships. -- Robert C. Solomon
human relationships simply aren't durable. I think back to the women in my life. they seem non-existent. -- Charles Bukowski
Relationships tend to be flawed because they are made up of inherently flawed components, mere human beings. -- Anthony D. Ravenscroft
Every human being must have boundaries in order to have successful relationships or a successful performance in life. -- Henry Cloud
Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It's just human nature. -- Michelle Pfeiffer
When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained. -- Viggo Mortensen
War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships. -- Harry Elmer Barnes
At the critical juncture in all human relationships, there is only one question: What would love do now? -- Neale Donald Walsch
Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it? -- Toni Morrison
If surveillance infiltrates our homes and personal relationships, that is a gross breach of our human and civil rights. -- David Blunkett
People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated. -- Adrien Brody
A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships. -- Desmond Tutu
The complexity of human relationships is never simple to follow; it is like intricate lacework, but lacework made of steel. -- Mignon G. Eberhart
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Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath. -- Albert Camus
All human interaction, you can break it down to incentives. All relationships, at some level, are transactional. They're fascinated with incentives. -- Steven Soderbergh
The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself. -- Paul David Tripp
To us the family is the cornerstone of civilization and must ever be. It is the foundation of proper human relationships. -- Mark E. Petersen
Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us. -- Eknath Easwaran
I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. -- Tahereh Mafi
I am a woman. My life is a long, strong, twisted rope, made up of a number of human relationships, nothing more. -- Mary Borden
In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight. -- Ram Dass
I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encounter it, people are trying to pretend it isnt happening. -- Sophie Hannah
I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encounter it, people are trying to pretend it isn't happening. -- Sophie Hannah
Human beings are essentially here for two purposes - to learn about and express love, and to create. We learn about love in all our relationships. -- Angeles Arrien
The purpose of apology is to extend ourselves in such a way that relationships become deeper, and life becomes richer and more human in the process. -- John Kador
I think we are defined as human beings through our families, no matter what kind of family - through our relationships with parents, brothers and sisters. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse as possible. -- Italo Calvino
Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence; to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see patterns, relationships, context. -- Marilyn Ferguson
Despairing of human relationships (people were so difficult), she often went into her garden and got from her flowers a peace which men and women never gave her." -- Virginia Woolf
[The integrative system] deals with such matters as respect, legitimacy, community, friendship, affection, love, and of course their opposites, across a broad scale of human relationships and interactions. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
Raw, real human conversation can be the most direct path to greater awareness and stronger relationships, even when it's unrehearsed and clumsy-perhaps especially when it's unrehearsed and clumsy! -- Beverly L. Kaye
I think what makes us human is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human. -- Thomas Jane
Love is the fundamental building block of all human relationships. It will greatly impact our values and morals. Love is the important ingredient in one's search for meaning. -- Gary Chapman
Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone. -- John Hannah
Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts. -- Joshua Ferris
You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only...from human relationships. God has placed it all around us...and all you have to do is reach for it. -- Jon Krakauer
I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human. -- Thomas Jane
Human beings are social animals and nearly all of us are driven by the need to be loved and the desire to successfully sustain meaningful romantic relationships for life. -- Matthew Hussey
Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam's fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans. -- John Ortberg
I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore. It's always one atom away from being a tragedy. -- Chris Cleave
Emotions are far harder things to understand than algebra and geometry, yet we spend hours in elucidating mathematics and expect such a problem as that of human relationships to solve itself. -- Frances G. Wickes
in the context of loss, each child is an only to her or his parents. Human relationships do not fill in for, do not substitute for, do not replace each other. -- Marcia Falk
I have come to know the mutability of all human relationships and have learned to insulate myself against both heat and cold so that a temperature balance is fairly well assured. -- Albert Einstein
In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate. -- Ayn Rand
Human relationships are strange. I mean, you are with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stops. -- Charles Bukowski
Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling. -- Graham Greene
Liberals say they are for civil liberties and personal freedom, but they continue to advocate government regulation of business, redistribution of wealth, and various forms of social engineering to manipulate human relationships and attitudes. -- Richard Ebeling
No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
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

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