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Quotes About Recipient

Such is the power of mindful, selfless generosity. At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient…only the universe rearranging itself.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
doomed to be the recipient of confidences...
~ Joseph Conrad
She is also capable of a noble generosity, and of cramming it down on the head of the recipient like a crown of thorns.
~ Wallace Stegner
The weaponized meme, when properly introduced and reinforced, will parasitically weave its way throughout the labyrinth of the mind and attach itself to the subconscious, thus effecting the root of the thought of the recipient.
~ James Scott
No, I was an odder old fool, grafting pathetic hopes of affection onto the least likely recipient in the world.
~ Julian Barnes
The nature of love requires a recipient one who will respond by choice to the love given
~ Sunday Adelaja
The cost for the recipient of God's grace is nothing, and no price could be higher for arrogant people to pay.
~ Dan B. Allender
Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing.
~ Robin Williams
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
~ John D. Rockefeller
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life.
~ George D. Prentice
Every act of kindness is potent and lingers long in the heart of the recipient.
~ Gary Lineker
The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
~ Elizabeth Peters
I was not unsympathetic with John's mood, but I did hope he was not about to transfer his affections from Charity to the mummy. Charity had not encouraged him, but there can be no more unresponsive recipient of love than a woman who has been dead for seventeen hundred years, give or take a century.
~ Elizabeth Peters
A present should show that you considered that person's tastes. Something he would enjoy but probably would not buy.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
We would certainly welcome the recipient nation to put their inspectors on our shores, if they wanted to make that investment to help protect that shipment that is outgoing.
~ Asa Hutchinson
I was once a welfare recipient and am very aware of the successes and failures of this critical safety net. There are those that would have us believe that those receiving TANF benefits are lazy, shiftless, freeloaders who are just sitting around thinking of another way to suckle from the government teat.
~ Gwen Moore
In general, we run the farm like a business instead of a welfare recipient, and we adhere to historically-validated patterns.
~ Joel Salatin
Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female.
~ Nicholas Kristof
Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the '90s.
~ Noam Chomsky
There's an implication for influence: persuaders would be wise to match the System 1 versus 2 orientation of any appeal to the corresponding orientation of the recipient. Thus, if you are considering a car purchase primarily from the standpoint of its emotionally relevant features (attractive looks and exhilarating acceleration), a salesperson would be well advised to convince you by using feelings-related arguments.
~ Robert B. Cialdini
A well-loved child is set a challenging precedent. In its very nature, parental love works to conceal the effort which went into generating it. It shields the recipient from the donor's complexity and sadness - and from an awareness of how many other interests, friends and concerns the parent has sacrificed in the name of love.
~ Alain de Botton
Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
~ Thomas Aquinas
When penetration is desired, the focus is on what works for the recipient: we have yet to meet a dildo that got hung up on its own needs.
~ Dossie Easton
Perhaps the most critical point—and the one hardest to keep clearly in mind—is that help is always defined by the recipient. Taking an action with respect to someone because "it is best for him," or because "it is for the good of the organization," may be influencing him, but it is not providing help unless he so perceives it. Headquarters
~ Douglas McGregor