Appreciation Quotes - Page 24

• To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere, without moving anything but your heart.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Teacher, Moving, Heart

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• Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Gratitude, Kindness

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• I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Perfect, Mind, Painting

  Leon Battista Alberti, John Richard Spencer (1966). “Leon Battista Alberti O Painting”, p.66, Yale University Press

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• We usually evaluate creative process in terms of how much feeling or thinking was behind the work or how well the work was done. Isn't there any other way of appreciating the process? What if the standard of excellence was how fully present the artist was during the process?

  Kazuaki Tanahashi

  Artist, Thinking, Appreciate

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• The reaction was immediate. The blood flow was in proportion to how much the painting was liked.

  Semir Zeki

  Blood, Flow, Painting

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• In my experience, clever food is not appreciated at Christmas. It makes the little ones cry and the old ones nervous.

  Jane Grigson

  Clever, Littles, Cry

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• God can only be of service to me and I to him, not in the past, nor in the future, but only right now in this moment.

  Steven James

  Past, Moments, Right Now

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• A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.

  Plato

  Thank You, Thankful, Gratitude

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• The possession of muscular strength and the courage to use it in contests with other men for physical supremacy does not necessarily imply a lack of appreciation for the finer and better things of life.

  Jack Johnson

  Sports, Men, Boxing

  Jack Johnson (1969). “Jack Johnson is a dandy: an autobiography”

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• Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.

  Barbara Sher

  Needs, Remember, Praise

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• If we can look upon our work not for self-benefit,but as a means to benefit society,we will be practicing appreciation and patience in our daily lives.

  Gautama Buddha

  Mean, Self, Discipline

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• Our lives are filled with meeting wonderful people. Make sure those that have become a part of your life hear your words of appreciation.

  Ace Antonio Hall

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Grateful

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• Paul Erdos has a theory that God has a book containing all the theorems of mathematics with their absolutely most beautiful proofs, and when he wants to express particular appreciation of a proof he exclaims, "This is from the book!"

  Ross Honsberger

  Beautiful, God, Faith

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• Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Inspirational, Life, Gratitude

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2006). “Moving on: Creating Your House of Belonging with Simple Abundance”, p.22, Meredith Books

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• The greatest gift . . . is the realization that life does not consist either of wallowing in the past or of peering anxiously at the future; and it is appalling to contemplate the great number of often painful steps by which one arrives at a truth so old, so obvious, and so frequently expressed. It is good for one to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now-this day-this hour.

  Charles Macomb Flandrau

  Life, Pain, Past

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• I am interested to learn that a group of distinguished men and women is to be formed to spread knowledge and appreciation of the rehabilitation which is going forward in Palestine under Jewish auspices, and to add my expression to the sentiment among our people in favor of the realization of the age-old aspirations of the Jewish people for the restoration of their national homeland.

  Herbert Hoover

  Men, Expression, Israel

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• A genuine sense of humor is having a light touch: not beating reality into the ground but appreciating reality with a light touch. The basis of Shambhala vision is rediscovering that perfect and real sense of humor, that light touch of appreciation.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Real, Light, Play

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Mistake, Moving

  "Two Secrets To A Better You' by Jack Canfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2009.

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• Patriotism is the intelligent appreciation that one's own welfare is inseparably connected with the general welfare and that to prosper personally one must intelligently do his utmost to maintain the general prosperity.

  Julius Sterling Morton

  Intelligent, Patriotism, Prosperity

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• Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship.

  George Will

  Sports, School, Grace

  George F. Will (2003). “With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• The thing that I think is the most important is taking moments to express your appreciation to your partner. A thank you or a quick kiss can go a long way toward affirming your relationship and commitment to each other. That's not hard to do even when you're juggling insane careers and three kids.

  Michael Ian Black

  Thank You, Kids, Commitment

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

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• Let me recommend that periodically you and I offer a prayer in which we only give thanks and express gratitude. Ask for nothing; simply let our souls rejoice and strive to communicate appreciation with all the energy of our hearts.

  David A. Bednar

  Gratitude, Prayer, Heart

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• I am saying that out of a spirit of appreciation and gratitude, and a sense of duty, you ought to make whatever adjustment is necessary to give a little of your time-as little as two years-consecrating your strength, your means, your talents to the work of sharing with others the gospel, which is the source of so much of the good that you have. I promise that if you will do so, you will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Gratitude, Mean, Sacrifice

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• How much of life do we miss by waiting to see the rainbow before thanking God there is rain?

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Gratitude, Rain, Waiting

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• Simplicity of living, if deliberately chosen, implies a compassionate approach to life. It means that we are choosing to live our daily lives with some degree of conscious appreciation of the condition of the rest of the world.

  Duane Elgin

  Mean, Simplicity, Degrees

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