Reciprocal Influence Quotes

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

We shape a building and thereafter the building shapes us.

My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.

Life imitates art and back around.

In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be... This is the inter-related structure of reality.

The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.

It's weird, like, my life has always imitated art, and my art has always imitated life.

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

The man molds the idol and then the idol molds the man.

The truth between two people always cuts two ways.

What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in itself something happening, which will, in turn, leave its effect.

The whole effect of activity is to enrich the feeling of the other.

We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day.

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.

If we succeed with something, that is only because others are in need of what e have produced. And the more success we have with something, the more people require that we express it. So it goes without saying, as a result of this we in principle never win out, others win. We always lose

What you must understand is that my voice comes from the energy of the audience. The better they are, the better I get.

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.

The people we are in relationships with are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs, and simultaneously we are mirrors, reflecting their beliefs.

You don't have to live near the ocean for it to have an impact on you. And you don't have to live near the ocean for you to have an impact on it.

We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.

I used to tell people when I preached at a church, 'If you want a great sermon, be a great audience.'

The best of all possible marriages is a seesaw in which first one, then the other partner is dominant.

The soil needs the seed and the seed needs the soil. The one only has meaning with the other. It is the same thing with human beings. When male knowledge joins with female transformation, then the great magical union is created, and its name is wisdom. Wisdom means both to know and to transform.

There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Frazier; no freedom without tyranny. No wisdom exists that does not include perspective. Relativity is the greatest gift.