Quotes About Reciprocity

If you want to be a generous giver, you have to watch out for selfish takers.

I was pleasantly surprised that south directors started creating roles for me after watching 'Rakta Charitra.'

In a relationship you want to treat people the way you want to be treated.

I felt like for what I needed, Bad Boy got me... they got me covered. Especially Puff, man. He's going to be the first billionaire rap entertainer. At the end of the day, they need me. Other artists-labels don't need me, but Bad Boy and Puff needs me. And I need them. It goes both ways.

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.

When you are in my classroom, you get everything from me. But you bloody well better give everything too.

When people see me in something and say, 'That's just you - that's not acting,' it's the best compliment I can get.

If someone gives you support, and there are no conditions attached, why shouldn't I accept it?

I was talking to my good friend Kid Rock a while ago, and he told me if I'd send him a helmet, he'd send me an autographed platinum record. I thought that was a pretty sweet swap.

I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused!

It could have been me. And just the hope and prayers that, you know, if, if the shoes were switched, that you know, Laci would do the same thing for me.

It is not difference that dominates the world, but the obliteration of difference by mimetic reciprocity, which itself, being truly universal, shows the relativism of perpetual difference to be an illusion.

Everything sent out returns to the source—you.

All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

Every action of giving creates an opposite action of receiving and what you receive is always equal to what you've given. Whatever you give out in life, must return to you. It is the physics and the mathematics of the universe.

As above, so below. As within, so without. —The Emerald Tablet, circa 3000 BC

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving." Albert Einstein (1879–1955) NOBEL PRIZE–WINNING PHYSICIST

I am wishing of a memory, where you gave me everything you had and where I offered you the pieces that were left of me.

Kindness may look for something in return, but that doesn't make it any less kind." Perhaps

His words of thanks contain four of the top six releasers for producing action patterns in someone else: reciprocity, scarcity, validation, and appeal to commitment. He hides the evidence of his begging under another trick gleaned from Chapter 12: If you want a person to help you, convince them that they've already helped you beyond saying. People will work hard to protect their legacy.

I am not preoccupied with collecting more goods and services; quite simply, my desire and effort—every day—is to pay back, to give back to the world a bit of what I have received.

In any situation, your taking or giving of energy is what you are actually doing.

My father's ideas about debt were vague, cosmic. He figured if you had money and somebody needed some, you gave it to him, at least if the guy was all right and would do the same for you. Later on, if you needed it and he had it you could call on him. In the meantime, if you didn't need it, you left him alone.

We do not love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we do them.