Kevin Kelly Quotes

When you're more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.

It takes two hands to clap.

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

A relationship takes two people to make or break it.

It's so much nicer to be able to do your job with someone who's helping you, and you're helping them. Then, it becomes a tennis match where you're hitting the ball back and forth, and you're a team.

Here's the truth that everyone misses - you must not invest in a guy based on how much you like him. You have to invest in a guy based on how much he invests in you.

You invest in someone based on how much they invest in you.

You sort of get so lulled into thinking of yourself as this five-headed thing, the group, the band, The Hip. I guess you just forget it's a family, and like every good family, you can forget. But you're also committed to each other, so there's always room to grow, to learn and relearn.

I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.

It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.

It takes two people to make a friendship work

Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do.

All came from, and will goe to others.

Intimacy requires an ability to both merge and be separate, to come together and be apart, like oscillating on a giant swing from oneness to separateness, creating a constant rhythm.

Love is at once the most creative and yet simultaneously destructive force in the world, and thus, in our lives. And I don't mean the Hallmark sentimental type of love, although that is part of it. But a deeper obligation that we have to each other: the obligation to reflect our humanness at each other, to reflect back the things others show us and we, them.

I like to live my life so that my loved ones give me the things I need as gifts and I give them the things they need. Frankly a society built around consumerism is hell

There cannot be friendship without equality.

The work exists for the person as much as the person exists for the work.

Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each is both, and all, and so They unto one another nothing owe; And yet they do, but are So just and rich in that coin which they pay, That neither would, nor needs forbear, nor stay; Neither desires to be spared nor to spare. They quickly pay their debt, and then Take no acquittances, but pay again; They pay, they give, they lend, and so let fall No such occasion to be liberal. More truth, more courage in these two do shine, Than all thy turtles have and sparrows, Valentine.

A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.

If you are not willing to receive, then you are "ripping off" those who want to give to you.

It is through exchange that difference becomes a blessing, not a curse.

I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.

In plain proletarian worker's language, it takes two to tango.