Admire Quotes

My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.

When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch.

We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.'

You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats it.

Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life.

Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.

I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.

We always like those who admire us.

I think a lot of great male comic actors are introspective, quiet personalities, which I really admire. But they are really able to turn it up when the camera's on.

A man is entitled to draw things in his own style. I didn't hurt Superman. I made him powerful. I admire Superman, but I've got to do my own style.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

Avoid working directly under somebody you don't admire and don't want to be like.

It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.

I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction.

We grow into that which we admire.

God is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful and consoles us for not sharing the happiness of the wicked.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.

You always try to play it off cool, but even if I think I have a certain laidback body language when I'm meeting someone who I greatly admire, I still have this horrible tendency to go bright red.

You can love a woman. To admire her is hard. You are not dealing with something important.

Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everyone else.

Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

I've never modeled myself on anybody, but there are a lot of people whose work I really admire and attitudes I certainly subscribe to.

When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.

I look upon youth in admiration and admire them for their curiosity about the world, their shape shifting, their ideas about the future.

Human nature has a tendency to admire complexity but reward simplicity.

I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty.

I admire people who just do the right thing, not looking to screw people up. I love all people.

Anyone can admire creation. Only a barbarian sees the beauty in demolition.

Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire.

Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes you can't see the boundaries anymore.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.

People don't admire you for what you hate, they admire you for what you do about it, and your slacks.

I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else.

Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.

All of us admire people we don't like and like people we don't admire.

Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave.

Effective negotiators have a style that those whom they are trying to influence, relate to and admire.

On the Earth, you admire the Moon; on the Moon, you admire the Earth!

Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full potential, is something that everyone can benefit from.

While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.

If I was told to sacrifice something to prove my devotion to God, if I was told to do what all monotheists are told to do and admire the man who said 'Yes I'll gut my kid to show my love of God.'

There is in true Beauty, as in Courage, somewhat which narrow Souls cannot dare to admire.

The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.