Giving Quotes - Page 856

If you're religious, it gives you a perspective.

Judgments that constrain your giving are the very demons that are keeping you from receiving.

Somewhere in there, among the worries, questions, advice and advertising jingles, lives your intuition, your true 'inner voice.' You can hear it to the extent that you give it your attention.

People will always be more willing to give you things that they think you don't need.

When you love someone, what they want is the best that you can give them.

Never loan money, you're not reading or willing to give away.

To get what you want you must communicate with others in a way that inspires them to want to give it to you.

Nothing has any power except the power that you give it.

To forgive someone means to take away the power this person has over you.

We criticize people for not giving us what we ourselves are afraid to ask for.

We need to receive empathy to give empathy.

NVC gives us tools and understanding to create a more peaceful state of mind.

Never give advice to your children unless you have it in writing and notarized.

We give empathy to others for our own benefit.

If we become skilled in giving ourselves empathy, we often experience in just a few seconds a natural release of energy which then enables us to be present with the other person. If this fails to happen, however, we have a couple of other choices.

This is a truism of child-raising, of course - whatever you give special time and attention to cooking, your children will despise and reject, with annoying gagging sounds.

True leaders have so much power they are willing to give it away. Power is not a fixed, quantifiable sum; instead it is an unlimited abstraction which grows as it is shared.

When I find research really rewarding is when one piece of information gives you an idea for a story. That's when it's great.

I think, as the writer, you're always going to mourn something [left out of a film]. But you also just want to know there's a good reason for it being left out. On the whole, you want to give something to somebody creative. The worst thing you can do is say, "Here, be creative, but do it like I want you to do it." I was always very mindful of that.

If you ever write a book, I can only give you one piece of advice. Don't let your parents get involved.

I wanted to drown inside a woman in the feeling and drooling of the love I could give her. I wanted her pulse to crush me with its intensity. That's what I wanted. That's what I wanted myself to be.

The idea of celebrity has always been very strange to me because it's taking the focus away from the music and attaching it to a person. When we put someone on a pedestal or idolize them, we're giving our own power away.

When you give people ability to stay connected with all the people they care about, and you make it so they can express new things about themselves or in communication with other people who they care about, then you just open up new possibilities. You make it so people can stay connected in ways that they couldn't before.

While we generally believe in free speech and giving everyone as much ability to speak as possible, in practice there are lots of barriers to that, whether it's legal restrictions, technological restrictions or you can't share what you want if you don't have access to the internet.

People wait until late in their career to give back. But why wait when there is so much to be done?