By temperament, he was professionally excessive; it was a form of generosity.
Simone Weil wrote that "attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity".
Danish experts analyze the mystery of love: is it a form of selfishness, or a form of generosity, or both?
King's compulsion to entertain — both himself and the enormous public whom he now, kind of archly, addresses as "Constant Reader" — is, however helpless, a form of generosity, a gift horse not to be looked in the mouth.
Weil's statement that "attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity" resonated so strongly for Ms. Haslett that she set out to discover more about Weil, who died in England in 1943 at 34. (Afflicted by tuberculosis, she often refused food in solidarity with those suffering under German occupation).
Flattery is the defensive weapon with which inferiors placate superiors, thereby avoid being killed, optimize their relationships and achieve a sort of "devious cooperation".+ "Not just a 'cost-benefit calculus,' "flattery is "a form of generosity,"+ "reciprocal altruism": I magnify you, confirm your self-love, so that you are well disposed toward me.
As philosopher Simone Weil once wrote, "Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity".
I had never realized how much something as simple as eye contact was a meaningful form of generosity -- until I was unable to offer it.
After all, selling below-cost to kids to incentivise adult purchase is the truest form of generosity there is. 5. You'll need a nativity scene which is ironically based on MTV's Cribs.
As it is nearly impossible to effectively introduce a culture of kindness at the bottom rungs of an unkind culture it is the generous leader who needs to model this form of generosity to employees and colleagues from the top.
