Andrew W.K. Quotes

It took a long time, but I have learned that you just can't take anything you want out of life without putting something back in exchange.

Cast no dirt into the well that gives you water.

It is the nature of men to be bound by the benefits they confer as much as by those they receive.

Napoli gave me so much, but I also gave something back - the best I could.

I never wanted something from somebody without being able to kind of reciprocate, I guess.

There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're not the same people.

And what will you give me in return, Severus?' 'In - in return?' Snape gaped at Dumbledore, and Harry expected him to protest, but after a long moment he said, 'Anything.

To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.

It was a mutual thing. I made a deal with them: I asked them if they did not bring out the place card of Malachi, I would let them have two minutes with each one of my patients.

It is not possible to spend on one thing and then not have consequences on something else.

You always have to sacrifice something when you want to achieve something.

When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them something meaningful that makes them want to please you, not because anyone owes you anything.

If you want people to support you, then you have to support them. You have to think long about what you did for people who voted for you, made phone calls for you, who went door to door for you.

Whose bread I eat, his song I sing.

… the principle of give and take--give one and take ten--the principle of diplomacy.

One good turn deserves another.

The first rule of negotiations is that normally you have to give to get.

It's easy to want the benefits of something; it's hard to want the cost.

There's certain people that you owe it to, for the things they've done for you.

Everything is a negotiation. Everything is a little bit of give and take.

I have no favors to pay back.

You are where you are today because you stand on somebody's shoulders. And wherever you are heading, you cannot get there by yourself. If you stand on the shoulders of others, you have a reciprocal responsibility to live your life so that others may stand on your shoulders. It's the quid pro quo of life. We exist temporarily through what we take, but we live forever through what we give

That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.

I don't call them sacrifices. I call them exchanges.

Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we may more readily find people to trust us.