Quotes About Reciprocity

#1. A lot of brothers don't understand. When it comes to making love, reciprocity is everything.

Pearl Cleage

#2. Jealousy knows no logic, nor does it respect reciprocity.

Jean Edward Smith

#3. No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

Neal A. Maxwell

#4. Many people who hold giver values in life choose matching as their primary reciprocity style at work, seeking an even balance of give and take.

Adam Grant

#5. Anger spoils relationships where there should be great reciprocity.

Robert A.F. Thurman

#6. But there is a beauty even in loving without response because that kind of love is truly selfless. When we love with no expectation or promise of reciprocity, we know what it means to sacrifice and deny ourselves in ways we wouldn't otherwise.

Matt Chandler

#7. What I discovered at six has continued to be true: in rescuing an animal, I rescue myself. This reciprocity between animals and humans is woven into the very fabric of creation. It is the ecology of Paradise.

Linda Bender

#8. Abundance is a dance with reciprocity - what we can give, what we can share, and what we receive in the process.

Terry Tempest Williams

#9. There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.

Alice Thomas Ellis

#10. The difference between human cultures and the civilizations of Highly Evolved Beings is that HEBs actually apply the law of reciprocity in their lives, rather than just giving it lip service.

Neale Donald Walsch

#11. the task is to articulate not just an alternative set of policy proposals but an alternative worldview to rival the one at the heart of the ecological crisis - embedded in interdependence rather than hyper-individualism, reciprocity rather than dominance, and cooperation rather than hierarchy.

Naomi Klein

#12. Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact.

John Rawls

#13. No relationship is absolutely reciprocal. Sometimes, when couples try to split everything in half, they discover that the relationship is not a partnership but a bean counting exercise. Striving for reciprocity in a relationship can be unhealthy.

Sylvain Reynard

#14. What I love about Twitter specifically is that reciprocity is not guaranteed, nor expected. In other words, I can go one way. I can put things out. I don't have to respond to everybody.

Elizabeth Banks

#15. Reciprocity, a symbiotic relationship, is a relationship in which two people have worked out certain terms. I am using you in certain ways; you are using me in certain ways. That is a balanced relationship.

Frederick Lenz

#16. Volleyball is one of the most interactive games going. It is a game of intuition, imagination, improvisation - but most of all, of reciprocity - of teamwork. There is no way to free-lance in volleyball.

Marv Dunphy

#17. Sandro never cared about reciprocity. Sex is not about exchange values, he said. It's a gift economy.

Rachel Kushner

#18. Reciprocity is a deep instinct; it is the basic currency of social life.

Jonathan Haidt

#19. I believe in libertarian options because they allow an interesting management of the capital and are based on co-operation, reciprocity, contract, federation.

Michel Onfray

#20. Reciprocity is not mandatory.

David Lubar

#21. Simplicity is the best strategy.
Reciprocity is the best policy.

Debasish Mridha

#22. The Supreme Court of Canada has given prisoners the "right" to vote. Is it not time that non-jailed citizens were given reciprocity with a "right" that prisoners have; namely the freedom to bypass the public system when it fails to provide reasonable access?

Brian Day

#23. Regardless of their reciprocity styles, people love to be asked for advice.

Adam M. Grant

#24. But a person, I would say, is an individual living really with the world. And 'with' the world, I don't mean in the world- just in real contact, in real reciprocity with the world in all the points in which the world can meet man.

Martin Buber

#25. The best opportunities to be nice to others come in the face of adversity. Kindness wins. Reciprocity rules.

David Chiles

#26. Reciprocity helps us balance the need for self-determination and creative individuality with mutual hope and, therefore, what might be described as 'solidarity.'

David Blunkett

#27. Now you shall consider My love in the Blessed Sacrament. Here, I am entirely yours, soul, body and divinity, as your Bridegroom. You know what love demands: one thing only, reciprocity ...

Mary Faustina Kowalska

#28. The point is, Harry, if I'm not to find you abhorrent, there will have to be more reciprocity all round. Particularly from your side.

Hanif Kureishi

#29. I prefer not to have among my guests two people or more, of any sex, who are in the first wild tremours of love. It is better to invite them after their new passion has settled, has solidified into a quieter reciprocity of emotions. (It is also a waste of good food, to serve it to new lovers.)

M.F.K. Fisher

#30. I have believed for a long time that human nature is a reciprocity of what is inside the skin and what is outside: that it is definitely not "rolled up inside us" but our way of being one with our fellows and our world. I call this field theory.

Gardner Murphy

#31. There is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.

Pearl S. Buck

#32. Controversies remain over the details, but today no biologist doubts that evolutionary dynamics like mutualism, kinship, and various forms of reciprocity can select for psychological faculties that, under the right circumstances, can lead people to coexist peacefully.4

Steven Pinker

#33. The central law of all wholesome life is reciprocity, mutuality ... But the group is valuable only as it permits personalities, not automatons, to emerge.

Norman Thomas

#34. The Three Musketeers had a cry of 'All for one and one for all'. The symmetry makes it memorable but also reflects the reciprocity. It is that great human symmetry: the deal.

Mark Forsyth

#35. The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.

Carroll Quigley

#36. The very ingredients that nurture love - mutuality, reciprocity, protection, worry, responsibility for the other - are sometimes the very ingredients that stifle desire.

Esther Perel

#37. What interferes with this peaceful feeling is our expectation of reciprocity.

Richard Carlson

#38. Reciprocal marketing, promotions and links. In public good experiments, behavioral economists have demonstrated that the potential for reciprocal actions by players increases the rate of contribution to the public good, providing evidence for the importance of reciprocity in social situations.

Carl William Brown

#39. A little reciprocity goes a long way.

Malcolm Forbes

#40. I've ripped so many shameful secrets from my belly, held them out, covered in toxic grime for his inspection, but there's no reciprocity.

Lia Riley

#41. My relationships are based on personal reciprocity. Being a Dodger was a matter of heart, but in the end I felt they didn't want me.

Steve Garvey

#42. 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.

Rene Girard

#43. If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, ... a sense of fairness, and the other one is empathy and compassion.

Frans De Waal

#44. People relate giving to reciprocity. They expect things to be expressed in a way they can understand, which is usually their own.

Aleksandra Ninkovic

#45. The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it 2540 is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested and generous; it is friendship and communion:

The Catholic Church

#46. Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.

Martin Buber

#47. When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path.

Confucius

#48. To be a best friend, the best word to live by is reciprocity.

Debasish Mridha

#49. I think we need to teach pleasure. What beautiful touch means. What reciprocity means. What being connected and what intimacy means. Boys get out there at a young age and the performance posturing is so great and ends up being hard and aggressive.

Eve Ensler

#50. (Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.

Shulamith Firestone

#51. Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time.

Mason Cooley

#52. When a man is guided by the principles of reciprocity and consciousness, he is not far from the moral law. Whatever you don't wish for yourself don't do unto others.

Confucius

#53. Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.

C.S. Lewis

#54. True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together.

Pauli Murray

#55. If
you are nice, but you give of yourself with strings attached, the
demand for reciprocity will send him several steps backward.

Sherry Argov

#56. Real sex is as much about reciprocity as it is exploration and if you need a reason to resent a man later on, just consider the guy who doesn't believe in cunnilingus ...

Roberto Hogue

#57. Create reciprocity in your business by making the first gesture, like make a comment on the blog of a great speaker.

Lisa A. Mininni

#58. Quadratic reciprocity is the song of love in the land of prime numbers.

Kato

#59. I've always noticed that Old Families, like plumbers and barbers and possibly drummers and detectives, seem to have some kind of reciprocity arrangement in the South. Members of the freemasonry could move anywhere ... and still operate cozily in the local Old Family top drawer.

Celestine Sibley

#60. We must remember how to honor and respect life with each breath, step, word, and thought. What you bless blesses you in return. This is the power of reciprocity.

Sandra Ingerman

#61. Tell me who I've got to be, to get some reciprocity

Lauryn Hill

#62. Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory perception is this ongoing interweavement: the terrain enters into us only to the extent that we allow ourselves to be taken up within that terrain.

David Abram

#63. to the psychologist Robert Cialdini, people can capitalize on this norm of reciprocity by giving what they want to receive. Instead

Adam M. Grant

#64. We were always expected to see Quebec's side of things, but there was damned little reciprocity.

Judy LaMarsh

#65. There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life -reciprocity.

Confucius

#66. The balanced rhythm of the universe is rooted in reciprocity,

Paramahansa Yogananda

#67. Ultimately, by repeatedly making the choice to act in the interest of others, strategic matchers may find themselves developing giver identities, resulting in a gradual drift in style toward the giving end of the reciprocity spectrum.

Adam M. Grant

#68. Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing reciprocity with the world.

David Abram

#69. In typical circumstances, to have children who won't care for you in your dotage is to be King Lear. Disability changes the reciprocity equation.

Andrew Solomon

#70. To stand emotionally open before the world & give of our hearts without fear of hurt or demand of reciprocity - this is the ultimate act of human courage.

Brendon Burchard

#71. The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#72. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing by rain?

Alan Lightman

#73. [T]he human being (and so all finite beings generally) becomes human only among others. Self and other stand in a relation of potential reciprocity.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

#74. We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.

Peter Singer

#75. mirror neurons create bonds of empathy, emotional attunement, and reciprocity between people.

Fran Cohen Praver

#76. Live your life by just one word and that is reciprocity.

Debasish Mridha

#77. Reciprocity of sensation is not possible because to share is to be robbed.

Angela Carter

#78. Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

Iris Murdoch

#79. Because I was more often happy for other people, I got to spend more time being happy. And as I saw more light in everybody else, I seemed to have more myself. (250)

Victoria Moran

#80. That which you do not wish for yourself, do not impose on others.

Umar

#81. Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.

Stieg Larsson

#82. There's more women likes to be loved than there is of those that loves.

Sarah Orne Jewett

#83. Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.

David Brin

#84. The truly gifted negotiator, then, is one whose initial position is exaggerated enough to allow for a series of concessions that will yield a desirable final offer from the opponent, yet is not so outlandish as to be seen as illegitimate from the start.

Robert B. Cialdini

#85. It's not equality that counts, it's reprocity that counts. Love is not like a balance sheet. There's no such thing as double-entry accounting when it comes to love.

Debra Ollivier

#86. ...she grasped the terrible truth that love can never be compelled, from man, from sprite, from beast; that one who loves, however she longs for requital, however long she waits, may receive in return the reverse of what she gives, the dark side of the moon.

Thomas Burnett Swann

#87. Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal.

James Baldwin

#88. Anyway, culture and nation are partners, inextricable from each other. National culture and nation, they are reciprocities.

Mark McMorris

#89. If they ignore us, well ... then, maybe we'll just ignore them right back.

Ray Bourhis

#90. To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered.

Peter Abrahams

#91. Love never lives on a one-way street, for it will always come back up the road bigger than how we had sent it down the road.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#92. The rule of the people has the fairest name of all, equality (isonomia), and does none of the things that a monarch does. The lot determines offices, power is held accountable, and deliberation is conducted in public.

Herodotus

#93. Focussing on Karma than on the lessons needed to be learned is setting a trap for "what goes around comes around." Never wish for others what you will not wish for yourself. Do to others as you want done to you. That's what love is about!

Kemi Sogunle

#94. Know that you get second chances so that you may change the art of your interaction, not so that others might finally treat you with the loving respect you deserve (and you do deserve loving respect).

Alexandra Katehakis

#95. It's so good to have the opportunity to help others who have helped you.
It's not about "tit for tat," it's about "I love you, too.

Karen E. Quinones Miller