Human Relations Quotes - Page 3

• The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Real, Heart, Religion

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise.

  Margaret Mead

  Women, Long, Training

  BlackberryWinter ch. 14 (1972)

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• At the end of the day, what I cherish most are the human relationships. With the unfailing support of my wife and partner I have lived my life to the fullest. It is the friendships I made and the close family ties I nurtured that have provided me with that sense of satisfaction at a life well lived, and have made me what I am.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Ties, Wife, Support

  Lee Kuan Yew (2013). “The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew”, p.160, Editions Didier Millet

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• Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Letter to Emanuel von Bodman, 17 Aug. 1901

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• I am a woman. My life is a long, strong, twisted rope, made up of a number of human relationships, nothing more.

  Mary Borden

  Strong, Women, Numbers

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• A glad welcome to this affirmation by a group of psychologists that the self does not stop at the skin nor even with the circle of human relationships but is interwoven with the lives of trees and animals and soil; that caring for the deepest needs of persons and caring for our threatened planet are not in conflict.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Caring, Animal, Self

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• I think that if you have a sense of the sacredness of nature and of human relations, I think you will be uplifted in some sort of spiritual elevation.

  Eugene Green

  Spiritual, Thinking, Relation

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere connection.

  Sherry Turkle

  Sacrifice, Caring, Technology

  "TED2012 live - day three from Long Beach". www.theguardian.com.

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• The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the ultimate and most sublime values have retreated from public life either into the transcendental realm of mystic life or into the brotherliness of direct and personal human relations. It is not accidental that our greatest art is intimate and not monumental.

  Max Weber

  Art, Philosophy, Fate

  Max Weber (2013). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.155, Routledge

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• According to the dictionary, knock has two definitions: "to strike something with a sharp blow," and "to find fault with, a harsh and often petty criticism." Perhaps in human relationships both of these meanings could apply. Almost all men will respond to sincere praise and rebel at harsh and cutting criticisms.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Cutting, Blow, Men

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• Modern multiple divorce is rooted in the fact that many are seeking in human relationships what human relationships can never give. Why do they have multiple divorce, instead of merely promiscuous affairs? Because they are seeking more than merely sexual relationship.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Divorce, Giving

  Francis Schaeffer (2016). “The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent”, p.213, NavPress

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• The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

  Joan Baez

  Friendship, Relationship, Peace

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• I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Relationship, Money, Wish

  Luigi Pirandello (1962). “To clothe the naked: and two other plays”

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• 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

  Men, Liberty, Economics

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.17, Penguin

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• Human relations, I mess them up, and they let me down.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Relation, Let Me, Mess

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• 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

  Thinking, Giving, Sailing

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• Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.

  Thomas Szasz

  Pills, Moral, Bitter

  Thomas Szasz (2017). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.156, Routledge

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• People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.

  Adrien Brody

  Thinking, People, Complicated

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• I like the rough impersonality of New York ... Human relations are oiled by jokes, complaints, and confessions-all made with the assumption of never seeing the other person again.

  Bill Bradley

  New York, Cities, Assumption

  Bill Bradley (2010). “Life on the Run”, p.131, RosettaBooks

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• The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationship.

  Alexis Carrel

  Prayer, Reality, Understanding

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• The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Weight, Baggage, Footnotes

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1984). “Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays”, Vintage

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• It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

  Bette Davis

  Experience, Shapes, Rewards

  Bette Davis (2017). “The Lonely Life: An Autobiography”, p.230, Hachette UK

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• Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay. The upshot is that a mediocre-or-worse CEO - aided by his handpicked VP of human relations and a consultant from the ever-accommodating firm of Ratchet, Ratchet and Bingo - all too often receives gobs of money from an ill-designed compensation arrangement.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Bingo, Gob

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• We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

  Bernard Malamud

  World, Stranger, Human Relationships

  Bernard Malamud, Thomas Mallon (2003). “Dubin's Lives: A Novel”, p.27, Macmillan

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• I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Country, Thinking, Roots

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