Appreciation Quotes - Page 10

• A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

  Douglas Adams

  Inspirational, Funny, Fake People

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.690, Pan Macmillan

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• Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

  Jacques Barzun

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  1955 In Newsweek, 5 Dec.

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• I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, God, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Thankful

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• Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

  A. A. Milne

  Happiness, Being Happy, Retirement

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• The half is greater than the whole.

  Hesiod

  Half, Whole, Greater

  Works and Days l. 40

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• I feel that when I am painting, it is a form of worship. I see how wonderful nature is and how wonderful art is... and by trying to produce these works of art, I feel that I am just showing my appreciation of these creations.

  E. J. Hughes

  Art, Trying, Wonderful Nature

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• No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

  Zane Grey

  Thinking, Overdoing It, Connected

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• To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.

  George H. Mead

  Art, Attitude, Meaning Of Life

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• To teach is to learn twice.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

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• Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

  Harper Lee

  Gratitude, Powerful, Reading

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

  Bernard Berenson

  Beauty, Appreciate, Redemption

  Bernard Berenson (1963). “Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958”, New York : Harcourt, Brace & World

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• Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because they know that, without the external discipline of clock time, they would never get anything done.

  W. H. Auden

  Men, Discipline, Imagination

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• Happy Friday! Lift your spirits by living in the vibration of LOVE & APPRECIATION then check out all the positive things and people you'll attract!

  Tracey Edmonds

  Friday, People, Vibrations

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• Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

  Bill Walsh

  Inspirational, Sports, Gratitude

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• Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

  Christopher Fry

  Despair, Comedy

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• The purpose of life is joy! When you're in joy, you attract the highest and best in every area of your life. Joy increases to the exact degree that you deliberately increase your good thoughts, good words, and good actions. I've found in my life that the easiest way to increase my joy is to religiously practice gratitude until I'm a gratitude machine!

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Life, Karma

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• Business and human endeavors are systems...we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system. And wonder why our deepest problems never get solved.

  Peter Senge

  Focus, Engagement, Snapshots

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• I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science by enrolling me amongst its members.

  Guglielmo Marconi

  Opportunity, Years, Royal

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• Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

  Matthew Lesko

  Rap, Government, Workers

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Gratitude, Soul, Rope

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• In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

  Bertrand Russell

  Leadership, Thank You, Thankful

  "Bertrand Russell's Greatest Paradox was His Faith" by Dan Delzell, www.christianpost.com. November 4, 2011.

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

  Seth Godin

  Culture, Employee Engagement, Solutions

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• No, but I've always felt that with true talent, and a commitment to hard work, it is possible to achieve an enduring respect and appreciation. In other words, I don't take my fans for granted.

  John Fogerty

  Commitment, Hard Work, Fans

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• 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.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  War, Heroic Deeds, People

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2007). “Outdoor Studies, Poems”, p.234, Reprint Services Corporation

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