Quotes About Favor

Don't kid yourself that anyone in the Premier League is going to do you any favours.

I am fortunate enough to find opportunities that have a lot of presence.

It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts.

The Tea Party is almost solely grassroots-based; business interests have almost no grassroots organization. The Republican Party has for too long been run on behalf of business interests who favor candidates the grassroots hate; the minute that those candidates begin to flag, only loyal Tea Partiers stand behind them.

Getting a Dog: She won this one easily, as I've already mentioned; I thought my graceful surrender would win me a concession or two down the line. i was wrong. Renee saw the dog not as a personal victory for her, but a huge favor she was doing me by teaching me the joys of being pissed on by an animal. This is just one of the adorable quirks of the dog, best friend God ever gave humanity in this crazy little world.

Apparently we have such an automatically positive reaction to compliments that we can fall victim to someone who uses them in an obvious attempt to win our favor.

la luz de este coste, no resulta tan desconcertante que, en nombre de la reciprocidad, devolvamos a menudo más de lo que hemos recibido. Ni tampoco es tan extraño que, con frecuencia, evitemos pedir un favor que necesitamos si no estamos en condiciones de devolverlo. Sencillamente, el coste psicológico puede pesar más que la pérdida material.

La decisión de acceder a la petición de otro está frecuentemente influida por la regla de la reciprocidad. Una táctica muy provechosa y habitual de ciertos profesionales de la persuasión consiste en dar algo antes de pedir un favor a cambio.

when we ask someone to do us a favor, we will be more successful if we provide a reason.

A person can trigger a feeling of indebtedness by doing us an uninvited favor (Paese & Gilin, 2000). Recall that the rule states only that we should provide to others the kind of actions they have provided us; it does not require us to have asked for what we have received in order to feel obligated to repay.

conocido principio del comportamiento humano, cuando pedimos a alguien que nos haga un favor, tendremos más posibilidades de conseguirlo si le damos un motivo. A las personas les gusta tener motivos para hacer algo.

When it is time to ask for a favor or help, you must think first of appealing to people's self-interest in some way.

They had to serve their masters, but if they seemed to fawn, if they curried favor too obviously, the other courtiers around them would notice and would act against them.

As praetor, Cicero was expected to take in promising pupils from good families to study law with him, and in May, after the Senate recess, a new young intern of sixteen joined his chambers. This was Marcus Caelius Rufus from Interamnia, the son of a wealthy banker and prominent election official of the Velina tribe. Cicero agreed, largely as a political favor, to supervise the boy's training

A man's stomach shall be satisfied from the fruit of his mouth, and from the produce of his lips he shall be filled. Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit. He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from the LORD. Allow

Isn't it greatly in my favor that I don't belong here but in jail?

I could probably sit here in my office and do nothing, and the criminal would find his way to me. That's how strong the probabilities are in my favor.

Be truthful about your emotions and use your mind and emotions in your favor, not against yourself.

Great transfers of wealth often occur when laws and markets change, so it is important to pay attention if you want to have those changes work in your favor, and not against you.

I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science.

If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.

It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost?

The very unfeasibility of it worked in their favor. He could not be a prisoner trying to escape, because prisoners simply did not escape.

The third and, given due consideration, most probable of all my theorems, is that life is ordered by the principles of some religion so peculiar and obscure it has no followers, and none may fathom it, nor know the rituals by which to court its favor.