Reciprocal Effect Quotes

The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.

Since no man ever can, or could, live by himself and for himself alone, the destinies of thousands of other people were bound to be affected, some remotely, but some very directly and near-at-hand, by my own choices and decisions and desires, as my own life would also be formed and modified according to theirs.

We cannot segregate the human heart from the environment outside us and say that once one of these is reformed everything will be improved. Man is organic with the world. His inner life moulds the environment and is itself also deeply affected by it. The one acts upon the other and every abiding change in the life of man is the result of these mutual reactions.

The mind shapes the body, and the body shapes the mind.

Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.

How strange that the world should change because of words, and words change because of the world

We're as much influenced by everybody else as they are by us, if they are. It's just all a part of the big thing.

And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.

A being connected with other beings cannot perform his own activities without taking the activities of others into account. For they are the indispensable conditions of the realization of his tendencies. When he moves he stirs them and reciprocally.

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

If the apple hit Newton’s nose, Newton’s nose hit the apple.

Your kids get something from your career, and your career will get something from your kids.

We do not love each other without changing each other.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

I am what I am because of who we all are.

Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.

I believe life is an 'experience ball.' You throw it at someone, it picks up their response... it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.

Culture affects development and development affects culture as well.

The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other.

we should think not only of what the leader does to the group, but also of what the group does to the leader.

There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.

I change the world, the world changes me.

Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.