Reciprocal Quotes

• I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

  Sean Penn

  Love, Believe, Filmmaker

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• There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  People, Listening, Benefits

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.239, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

  Samuel Johnson

  Compromise, Concessions

  Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776”, p.133, Princeton University Press

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• Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Listening, Process, Good Listener

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.239, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.

  Georg Simmel

  Confidence, Secret, Essentials

  Georg Simmel (2015). “The Sociology of Secrecy and of Secret Societies”, p.39, Georg Simmel

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• He has willed - He wills incessantly - that the modifications of the mind and those of the body shall be reciprocal. This is the conjunction and the natural dependence of the two parts of which we are constituted.

  Nicolas Malebranche

  Two, Mind, Body

  Nicolas Malebranche (2014). “Dialogues on Metaphysics”, p.195, Routledge

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• Moral authority is another way to define servant leadership because it represents a reciprocal choice between leader and follower. If the leader is principle centered, he or she will develop moral authority. If the follower is principle centered, he or she will follow the leader. In this sense, both leaders and followers are followers. Why? They follow truth. They follow natural law. They follow principles. They follow a common, agreed-upon vision. They share values. They grow to trust one another.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Law, Choices, Leader

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• To move forward you have to give back.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Moving, Giving, Moving Forward

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 15 June 2008

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• Because the relationship between self and world is reciprocal, it is not a matter of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the Earth, the Earth heals us. No need to wait. As we care enough to take risks, we loosen the grip of ego and begin to come home to our true nature.

  Joanna Macy

  Peace, Home, Self

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• Even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the two strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies.

  Albert Einstein

  Strong, Two, Science And Religion

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give.

  John Dewey

  Teacher, Teaching, Giving

  John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.85, Kappa Delta Pi

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• I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other.

  Chelsea Manning

  Sweet, Thinking, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Love, Recovery, Self

  Fulton J. Sheen (2003). “Fulton Sheen's Wartime Prayer Book”, p.73, Sophia Institute Press

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• Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Life, Giving

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.80, Routledge

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• Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

  Bernard Meltzer

  Happiness, Happy, Kissing

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• I knew where the magnets were, behind the gyprock, and the magnets were very powerful. I think they had to be powerful for me, otherwise the reader wouldn't have a reciprocal experience. But I was very careful to bury them deeply, deeply in the plaster and paint over them. I didn't want anybody to directly access them, and that's gradually changed for me.

  William Gibson

  Powerful, Thinking, Want

  Source: craphound.com

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• I established the opposite view, that this history of the embryo (ontogeny) must be completed by a second, equally valuable, and closely connected branch of thought - the history of race (phylogeny). Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation... 'ontogenesis is a brief and rapid recapitulation of phylogenesis, determined by the physiological functions of heredity (generation) and adaptation (maintenance).

  Ernst Haeckel

  Views, Law, Opposites

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• Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?

  Victor Hugo

  Science, Understanding, Avalanches

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.606, Wordsworth Editions

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• To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own; rather, ethics is an interior principle of the economy itself, which cannot function if it does not take account of the human values of solidarity and reciprocal responsibility.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Responsibility, Matter, Today

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• Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exists between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.

  Friedrich List

  Philosophy, Political, Economics

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• Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely admire the flatteree, please that person, please other present company, be pleased to stagger rivals, and get something out of it: applause, promotion, a favor, reciprocal praise. Flattery is as social as a banquet.

  Willis Regier

  Rivals, Favors, Welcome

  Willis Goth Regier (2007). “In Praise of Flattery”, p.4, U of Nebraska Press

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• I truly believe that we each have a House of Belonging waiting for us. Waiting to be found, waiting to be built, waiting to be renovated, waiting to be cleaned up. Waiting to rescue us. Waiting for the real thing: a grown-up, romantic, reciprocal relationship.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Real, Believe, Waiting

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• Culture and technology exist in a dynamic reciprocal relationship. Culture comprehends technology through the means of narratives or myths, and those narratives influence the future shape and purposes of technology. The culture-technology circuit is at the heart of cultural evolution.

  Brenda Laurel

  Mean, Heart, Technology

  Brenda Laurel (2001). “Utopian Entrepreneur”, p.102, MIT Press

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• The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

  Alva Myrdal

  Communication, Discovery, Invention

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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• The one and only Gospel waits to be proclaimed by everyone together, in love and reciprocal esteem.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Waiting, Together, Esteem

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