Appreciate Quotes - Page 29

• A draw may be the beautiful and logical result of fine attacks and parries; and the public ought to appreciate such games, in contrast, of course, to the fear-and-laziness draws.

  Bent Larsen

  Beautiful, Games, Laziness

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• That's the old ecological tale that explains humans' inability to fully appreciate global warming. To wit: if you drop a frog in a pan of hot water, it jumps out. If you drop it in a pan of cold water, then turn the heat up slowly, you can roast it to death.

  Clive Thompson

  Funny, Animal, Water

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• The biggest secret of self-esteem is this: Begin to appreciate other people more; show respect for any human being merely because he is a child of God and therefore a thing of value.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Motivational, Children, Self Esteem

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.79, Penguin

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• If you would stop analyzing everything and just look for things to appreciate, you would live happily ever after.

  Esther Hicks

  Self Improvement, Looks, Analyzing

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• You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You are the shaman/healer, that's what the storyteller is, and I think it's important for actors to appreciate that. Too often actors think it's all about them, when in reality it's all about the audience being able to recognize themselves in you. The more you pull away from the public, the less power you have on screen.

  Ben Kingsley

  Reality, Thinking, Important

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• Oftentimes the quality of the light tells the story: the time of day, the weather, whether sun is streaming through the window. It can also help you appreciate what the actor is feeling, what the playwright wants you to feel. Any engineer can put a spot on someone.

  Jules Fisher

  Light, Weather, Feelings

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• 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

  Children, Cutting, Events

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• To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

  Aristotle

  Learning, Snow, Cold

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• I am so grateful for my physical therapist, Teresa England, who taught me to respect the process of recovery. Healing is sometimes slow, and any pace but fast was alien to me. To me, the idea of patience and gradual progress was a very foreign idea. I truly learned patience from this woman, and how to appreciate the smallest signs of improvement.

  Tara Subkoff

  Cancer, Grateful, Healing

  "Tara Subkoff: 'I Survived a Brain Tumor'" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. Apr 17, 2010.

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• It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparing to accept those consequences and viewing rejection as a learning experience that will bring you closer to success, will not only help you to conquer the fear of rejection, but help you to appreciate rejection itself.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  People, Rejection, Overcoming

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• You're so caught up in grumbling, complaining, and seeing what's wrong that you have no energy or time to appreciate what's good.

  Joyce Meyer

  Energy, Grumbling, Complaining

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• It doesn't really matter what party you come from. I think the people appreciate that and they know that you're working together, that you can provide the kind of leadership to bring both of the parties together, and do the kind of things that need to be done for the state.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Leadership, Party, Thinking

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. November 26, 2006.

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• We need merely understand that the evolutionary process is neither random nor determined but creative. It follows the general pattern of all creativity. While there is no way of fully understanding the origin moment of the universe we can appreciate the direction of evolution in its larger arc of development as moving from lesser to great complexity in structure and from lesser to greater modes of consciousness. We can also understand the governing principles of evolution in terms of its three movements toward differentiation, inner spontaneity, and comprehensive bonding.

  Thomas Berry

  Moving, Creativity, Creative

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• When the well is dry, people know the worth of water. [so appreciate what you have while you have it]

  Benjamin Franklin

  Gratitude, People, Water

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• The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. [and therefore not appreciate it fully or be grateful for it every moment.]

  Charlie Chaplin

  Gratitude, Grateful, Luxury

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• Like when I'm in the bathroom looking at my toilet paper, I'm like 'Wow! That's toilet paper?' I don't know if we appreciate how much we have.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Gratitude, Paper, Toilets

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• ...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.

  Louis L'Amour

  Gratitude, Men, Danger

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• In order to be happy we must first possess inner contentment; and inner contentment doesn't come from having all we want; but rather from wanting and appreciating being grateful for all we have.

  Dalai Lama

  Gratitude, Grateful, Order

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• What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness? You only truly, deeply appreciate and are grateful for something when you compare and contrast it to something worse.

  John Steinbeck

  Summer, Gratitude, Grateful

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• Get in the habit of appreciating things.

  Michael Losier

  Gratitude, Habit

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• Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in the yard, one by one, embracing them and crying because he knew he wouldn't see them again. To truly appreciate life we must remember that nothing lasts for ever and take nothing we enjoy for granted. In so doing we stay grateful and happy for all our good fortune.

  Jose Saramago

  Goodbye, Gratitude, Grateful

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• You have to have a darkness...for the dawn to come. You have to have experienced difficulties and challenges to fully appreciate and be grateful for success.

  Harrison Ford

  Gratitude, Grateful, Challenges

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• One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere.

  Alain de Botton

  Gratitude, Grateful, Sight

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• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of awareness of darkness... as the contrast between what we have and how it could be worse is vital to appreciate anything, including our life, and so be happy and grateful

  Carl Jung

  Gratitude, Grateful, Happy Life

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• One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it or imagining that.

  Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

  Gratitude, Blessing, Irony

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