Admire Quotes - Page 6

• I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

  Ayrton Senna

  Dedication, Idols, Professional Competence

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Kindness, Quality

  Interview With Gwen Marder, www.foxnews.com. December 17, 2004.

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• It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.

  James Russell Lowell

  Beautiful, Men, Intuition

  William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot (1910). “Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes”

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• Everybody admires a go-getter if he is tactful.

  Earl Tupper

  Tact, Ifs

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• Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

  Clarence Day

  Funny, Character, Wrinkles

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• Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.

  Joanna Trollope

  Names, Differences, Perception

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• Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors.

  Mark Rydell

  Directors, Maverick, Good Directors

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• I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them.

  Marcel Dionne

  Games, Watches, Done

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• When you run for president of the United States, everybody does the same thing in the campaign-they talk about veterans, how much they admire them, how grateful they are.

  Mark Shields

  Running, Grateful, President

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• I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.

  Nathalie Sarraute

  People, Imagine, Disaster

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• 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.

  Tom Glazer

  Numbers, Discipline, People

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• I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft.

  Lavrenti Lopes

  Dedication, Crafts, Sheer

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• If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything.

  Patsy Cline

  Mom, People, Half

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• In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

  Lennart Meri

  Past, Hunters, Film

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• In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Color, People, Great Men

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

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  People

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• I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.

  Kathleen Turner

  Moving, Actresses, Young

  "Why I'm moving to Europe". Interview with Sharon Krum, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2006.

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• Sometimes when you're treated unfairly it makes you stronger and more determined. I admire that kind of strength. People who have it take a stand and put their blood and soul into what they believe.

  Michael Jackson

  Believe, Blood, People

  Twitter post from Apr 17, 2018

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• Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

  Samuel Butler

  Thinking, Enemy, Looks

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.205, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We tend to become like those whom we admire.

  Thomas S. Monson

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• Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon.

  Philip Sidney

  Moon, Men, Quality

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• We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

  William Feather

  Appreciation, Jobs, History

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• History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.

  Edmund Morris

  Wise, Bravery, Brave

  Edmund Morris (2011). “Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan”, p.4, Modern Library

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• However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Stupidity, Fool, Bigs

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• 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.

  Joseph Joubert

  Appreciation, Men, Giving

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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