(1207 quotes found)
“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
William James
“Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.”
Winnie the Pooh
“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
“Young children possess the ability to cut across the customary categories; to appreciate usually undiscerned links among realms, to respond effectively in a parallel manner to events which are usually categorized differently, and to capture these ori”
Howard Gardner
“We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.”
Seneca
“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.”
Dalai Lama
“Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.”
Bette Davis
“To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five- year old men more”
Colleen McCullough
