Appreciation Quotes

An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.

Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.

I don't think some of the players understand what the people are about. The people are coming out to show you their appreciation of the game, and the player that you are.

It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

The primary object of a student of literature is to be delighted. His duty is to enjoy himself, his efforts should be directed to developing his faculty of appreciation.

it is far better to appreciate and not to possess, than to possess and not to appreciate.

Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.

The thing about Sondheim is that it does get very cerebral. You do need a faculty with words and a love for the lyrics to not just pull it off, but to have an appreciation for it.

I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.

An "I know what I like" mentality is hard to shake, but of course appreciation has space for being challenged.

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.

If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.

I have a great appreciation for our world's history. I learn from my own mistakes, I learn from the mistakes we've made as a human race.

It's not like I listened to music and then stopped. I still don't have a real appreciation for music because I didn't really start listening to it until my 20s.

Appreciation is the purest,strongest form of love. It is the outward-bound kind of love that asks for nothing and gives everything.

I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity.

We try to use the talents we do have to express our deep feelings, to show our appreciation of all the contributions that came before us, and to add something to that flow. That's what's driven me.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.

In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.

Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye far our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve.

Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?

He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.

Appreciation, applause, approval, respect - we all love it!

Happiness is found in the absence of expectation and a continuous focus on appreciation.

Training the eye is the most important way to gain an appreciation and understanding of good design in busienss management.

I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.

I obviously have a great love and appreciation of jewelry, thanks to my mother, much to the dismay of both my father and my boyfriends.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.

I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory.

We have a duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a man on his feet. Blessed is the man who speaks such a word.

As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.

We never know a greater character unless there is in ourselves something congenial to it.

We measure success by accumulation. The measure is false. The true measure is appreciation. He who loves most has most.

The half is greater than the whole.

People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.

This is the time to speak the word of appreciation.

Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done.

The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune.

We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.

Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.

One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the Messiah, patience and deep appreciation of human individuality.

The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.