Quotes About Reciprocity

When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.

It's explained that all relationship require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.

It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.

So much power lies in the ability to see how willing other people are to give it to you.

I want to empower and love, to be empowered and empower others. Because when we send out good energy, it comes back at us and makes the world a better place.

What goes around comes around in business, and it's better to help people out rather than bill them every time you speak to them.

If I'm selling, I want them all selling in the audience. If I'm coming back, I want them all coming back. If I'm bleeding, I want them bleeding. If I win, they win. If I lose, they lose.

What's the point of blowing up if you can't give back to the people who helped you blow up?

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

I've sort of accidentally put myself in this position where I opened up the story of my life, and of course people want to reciprocate and open up to me. I'm OK at it, I don't make people feel worse, but it's strange to find myself in this role, all of a sudden, that I never would have pursued.

I always feel: when one person is indebted to another for something very special, that indebtedness should remain a secret between just the two of them.

One of the most beautiful compensations in life is that no person can help another without helping themselves

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

What is Love? perhaps we may find that love is the ability of someone to give us back to us. Maybe love is someone seeing and remembering, handing us back to ourselves just a trifle better than we had dared to hope or dream...

Cuántas veces la gente toma y te devuelve tu propia expresión, tus más escondidos y temblorosos pensamientos?

while reciprocal altruism does require a higher level of cognitive sophistication and behavioral flexibility than kin selection altruism, insofar as the altruist must be able to recognize free riders and discontinue interactions with them, too much cognitive sophistication may in the end undermine the altruistic impulse.

Know what I mean? You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours." Yossarian knew what he meant. "That's not what I meant," Doc Daneeka said as Yossarian began scratching his back.

One hand washes the other. Know what I mean? You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours." Yossarian knew what he meant. "That's not what I meant," Doc Daneeka said as Yossarian began scratching his back.

You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours." Yossarian knew what he meant. "That's not what I meant," Doc Daneeka said as Yossarian began scratching his back.

You must give to receive.

Water seeks its own level.