Quotes About Exchange

I had broken the rules of exchange. She had given and I had taken, but I had not reciprocated. A gift like love is never free.

Communication is a system. Everything that is said is simultaneously an instigation and a reaction, a reaction and an instigation. Most of us tend to focus on the first part of that process while ignoring or downplaying the second. We see ourselves as reacting to what others say and do, without realizing that their actions or words are in part reactions to ours, and that our reactions to them won't be the end of the process but rather will trigger more reactions, in a continuous stream.

The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care for others, and for the good of the place.

Much of that which passes for conversation these days is the lobbing of small bombs of dogma and little clots of banality at one another.

With every inhalation, I take. With every exhalation, I give. How grand it is not to buy, sell, hold, or hoard breath. Would that it were so with money. Enjoy breathing while you can, for unless something changes, it won't be long until government awards ownership of the atmosphere to some commercial corporation to price and meter out as they please.

the universe operates through dynamic exchange... giving and receiving are different aspects of the flow of energy in the universe. and in our willingness to give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives.

And what is breath? It is the carbon dioxide and oxygen that come from the metabolism of every cell in that stranger's body. That is what you are inhaling, just as other people are inhaling your breath. So we are all constantly exchanging bits of ourselves—physical, measurable molecules from our bodies.

Every relationship is one of give and take.

Commerce works better than theft.

What you gain here, you lose on the other side.

We'll give you half now, you give us the gold, and then we give you the other half." "There are three babies. How do you give me half?" He shrugged. "Chop a baby in two." "You know, even for a goblin, that's disturbed.

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange

Knowledge is a rare thing -- you gain by giving it away.

In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.

Successful knowledge transfer involves neither computers nor documents but rather interactions between people.

Without real exchange, you can't create knowledge.

The substitute for knowledge is money.

Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style.

Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which itis destined to receive thence.

Knowledge is currency here....

God received from me something He didn't have on His own. My sin. I received something from God I didn't have on my own. His righteousness.

Your true value is determined by how much more you give in value than you take in payment.

Every person that you meet knows at least one thing that you don't. Don't let them leave without learning it.

Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.