Appreciate Quotes - Page 25

• You can't complain when people appreciate what you're doing.

  Jacoby Ellsbury

  People, Complaining

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• The Christian faith allows us to see further and deeper, to appreciate that nature is studded with signs, radiant with reminders, and emblazoned with symbols of God, our creator and redeemer.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Christian, Reminders, Deeper

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• Being more mature now, I've managed to make peace with my past, as it's making peace with me. Certainly there's a mutual gain for reflecting on both phases of my life, and although I consider the here and now perhaps to be more important, there are still many people who appreciate my past ephemeral stages and the lessons they represent.

  Cat Stevens

  Past, People, Important

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• Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?

  Robert Byrd

  Approval Rating, Aggravation, Wonder

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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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• Education is the preparation of the individual for reciprocal union with society; the preparation of the individual so that he can help his fellow-men and in return receive and appreciate their help.

  William Torrey Harris

  Education, Men, Preparation

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• How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?

  Ally Condie

  Too Much, Overwhelmed

  Beth Revis, Jessica Spotswood, Marie Lu, Ally Condie, Andrea Cremer (2012). “Breathless Reads Sampler”, p.111, Penguin

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• There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.Past experience, to the extent that it is part of memory at all, is dismissed as the primitive refuge of the those who do not have insight to appreciate the incredible wonders of the present.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Memories, Past, Littles

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1994). “A Short History of Financial Euphoria”, p.17, Penguin

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• I think it's about time people stopped judging women on their appearance and more on their intellect. Like you can appreciate my style without having to appreciate my weight. It's not actually mutually exclusive. I just get frustrated because just because I exist in this shape doesn't mean that I'm like advocating it.

  Alexa Chung

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Alexa Chung on Body Image: 'Just Because I Exist in this Shape Doesn't Mean I'm Advocating It'". Interview with Hayley Phelan, fashionista.com. October 12, 2012.

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• The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Stress, Book, Years

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• How do we appreciate the good without letting it be the enemy of the perfect? How do we keep a step in the right direction from becoming a stopping point? How do we get beyond shades of insipid light green?

  Donella Meadows

  Light, Perfect, Enemy

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• It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Education, Appreciation, Mean

  "Return to Mathematical Circles". Book by Howard Eves, 1988.

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• Men do not know how to appreciate and measure luck except that of others. Their own never.

  Indro Montanelli

  Men, Luck, Know How

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• Rather than beating yourself up for what you are not doing, appreciate and celebrate the things you are doing. When you shift your focus away from what you do not want, you can create a vision for what you do. Don't fight with yourself - focus on what you do, can do, choose to do, are ready to do.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Fighting, Focus, Vision

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Mar 29, 2016

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• I had the right amount of detachment to go back and really appreciate what I had grown up with. There’s a particular style that is very Peru that you don’t see anywhere else; it’s got so many different imprints. When you mix Incan minimalism with the heavy, ornate Spanish Baroque, it is very interesting.

  Mario Testino

  Interesting, Style, Different

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• Photography begins not in the camera but in the
  mind and the eye. The real work is one of noticing and appreciating, seeing things clearly and differently, and
  sharing that vision with others. I have developed my
  vision and my photographic craft in order to bring
  the beauty of nature to light in a fresh way that
  can inspire and nourish people.

  Bill Atkinson

  Photography, Real, Eye

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• Without your downs, without your hardships, I don't think you appreciate the ups as much.

  Michelle Wie

  Thinking, Hardship

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• I'm lucky and I appreciate that. I love every minute of every day.

  Alan Shearer

  Lucky, Minutes

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• I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Art, Trying, Film

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• To me you have to commit yourself to the sacrifice, because it's so important. Even if people don't agree, they appreciate commitment.

  Ed Fallon

  Commitment, Sacrifice, People

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• Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist and people who appreciate truly beautiful and original creations in pottery are not frightened by innocent tomfoolery!

  Clarice Cliff

  Beautiful, Fun, Artist

  Pasadena Evening Post, 1931.

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• You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down.

  William Christopher Handy

  Art, Men, He Man

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• My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got a healthy sense of democracy from them.

  Ahmet Zappa

  Parent, Healthy, Democracy

  "Interview: Ahmet Zappa" by Sharon Krum, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.

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• We ought not to have to wait for sorrow before we can appreciate the sweetness of joy.

  J.R. Miller

  Appreciation, Joy, Waiting

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• I appreciate very much being injury-free.

  Steffi Graf

  Being Free, Injury

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