Appreciate Quotes - Page 21

• The average player would rather play than watch. Those who don't play can't possibly appreciate the subtleties of the game. Trying to get their attention with golf is like selling Shakespeare in the neighbourhood saloon.

  Bob Toski

  Golf, Player, Average

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• It's always too late for sorries, but I appreciate the sentiment.

  Neil Gaiman

  Too Late, Late, Sentiments

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• Beauty isn't what you see on TV or in magazine ads or even necessarily in art galleries. It's a lot deeper and a lot simpler than that. It's realizing the goodness of things, it's leaving the world a little better than it was before you got here. It's appreciating the inspiration of the world around you and trying to inspire others.

  Charles de Lint

  Art, Inspiration, Leaving

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.137, Macmillan

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• My chest tightens: seeing him so upset breaks my own heart. 'Don't you ever wish you could make that bit go away?" I say, feeling angry at the past. 'That you could erase those painful memories, forget they every happened, just remember the happy times you had together?' 'You must never say that,' he reprimands sternly. 'But why not?' I look at him in surprise. 'Because it's the bad memories that makes you appreciate the good ones. Don't ever wish them away. it's like your nan always used to say, "You need both the sun and the rain to make a rainbow".

  Alexandra Potter

  Memories, Rain, Heart

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• You don't feel the need to talk all the time, do you," she said. He smiled. "No." "Most people don't know how to appreciate silence. They can't help talking." "I talk, I just want to have something to say first.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Talking, People, Silence

  Nicholas Sparks (2010). “The Lucky One”, p.93, Hachette UK

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• I have a good sense of my body in a bathing suit around people who appreciate what I'm doing, like a contest. Then I'm proud. On television I am proud. But on a beach most people are not experts. The general public doesn't know how to look. How proud can you be when they don't even know what they're looking at?

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Sports, Beach, Bodybuilding

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• Whenever you appreciate a certain thing you become conscious of its real quality, and whenever you become conscious of the quality of anything, you begin to develop that quality in yourself. When we appreciate the worth of a person, we tend to impress the idea of that worth in our own minds, and thereby cause the same effect to be produced, in a measure, in ourselves.

  Christian D. Larson

  Real, Ideas, Mind

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.416, Penguin

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• I'm having a psychic moment. It involves you and me." Distracted, Gansey glanced up from the computer screen. "Were you talking to me or Ronan?" "Either. I'm flexible." Blue made a small, terrible noise. "I would appreciate if you'd turn your inner eye towards the water.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eye, Talking, Psychics

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.168, Scholastic Inc.

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• the pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next.

  Mitch Albom

  Pain, Suffering, Way

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• But I think the most important thing is to find the love of your life and have fun in love. And enjoy and appreciate what comes to you.

  Heidi Klum

  Positive, Fun, Thinking

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• There are no moments you have frozen in amber. It's moving, it's changing, so appreciate what's good about right now and be ready for what's next.

  Michael J. Fox

  Time, Moving, Amber

  Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 18, 2009.

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• The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Appreciation, Time, Simplicity

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• People are your most valuable asset. Only people can be made to appreciate in value.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Humorous

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• I think no matter what you look like, the key is to first of all be happy with yourself. And then you know if you want to try to improve things that you don't like about yourself, then do it after your appreciate yourself.

  Adele

  Beauty, Thinking, Keys

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• What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Teacher, Educational, Teaching

  Elbert Hubbard (2009). “Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others”, p.98, The Floating Press

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• Marketers... Can't simply put a more environmentally friendly package on the shelves and assume that shoppers will recognize and appreciate the change. If the goal is to drive preference or justify a price premium, the environmental benefit needs to be conveyed.

  Scott Young

  Business, Goal, Environmental

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• The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

  Dodie Smith

  Funny, Family, Heart

  Dear Octopus (1938) p. 120

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• To experience the good you have to have seen the bad; plus it makes you appreciate blessings more. Tough times taught me to be a fighter.

  Pink

  Badass, Blessing, Bad Ass

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• English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place.

  Mark Twain

  Laughter, Humor, Paper

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• It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.

  Hannah More

  Knowledge, Important, Knows

  Hannah More (1805). “Hints towards forming the character of a young princess: in two volumes”, p.27

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• Running is not, as it so often seems, only about what you did in your last race or about how many miles you ran last week. It is, in a much more important way, about community, about appreciating all the miles run by other runners, too.

  Richard O'Brien

  Running, Race, Community

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• I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Motivational, Thank You, Thankful

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• I think I learned to appreciate and treasure each day, because you don't know how many you're going to be given.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Gratitude, Thinking, Each Day

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• I appreciate what I have a lot more than I did when I was younger.

  Aaron Carter

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• Any perception can connect us to reality, properly and fully. What we see doesn't have to be pretty, particularly; we can appreciate anything that exists. There is some principle of magic in everything, some living quality. Something living, something real, is taking place in everything.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Real, Magic, Perception

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.83, Shambhala Publications

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