Appreciated Quotes

• Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Life, Friendship, Thank You

  Mary Kay Ash (1995). “Mary Kay, You Can Have it All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur”, Prima Lifestyles

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• Life can be seen through your eyes but it is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your heart.

  Mary Xavier Mehegan

  Appreciation, Heart, Eye

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• All leadership is appreciative leadership. It's the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead.

  David Cooperrider

  Leadership, Appreciation, Trying

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• Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood.

  Paulo Coelho

  Winning, Play, Effort

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• Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Appreciate, Understanding

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.347, Harvard University Press

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• That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.

  David Amram

  People, Done, Want

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• Even though they are paid differently, everyone has to feel appreciated.

  Roger Staubach

  Nfl, Feels, Paid

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• The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Feelings, Literature, Levels

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• The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for.

  Gerard Butler

  Chance

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• Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Literature, Rudeness, Manners

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• Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

  Blaise Pascal

  May, Cold, Abandoned

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.98, Courier Corporation

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• Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.

  James F. Cooper

  Exception, Particular, Effects

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• Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.

  Edward Hoagland

  Funny, Life, Country

  Edward Hoagland, HOAGLAND EDWARD. (1995). “Tugman's Passage”, Lyons Press

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• I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

  Jose Saramago

  Positive, Hero, Writing

  "Interview with Jose Saramago, Author of Blindness". Political Affairs Magazine Interview, www.politicalaffairs.net. March 2006.

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• Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

  Virginia Satir

  Motivational, Family, Appreciation

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• Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated.

  Tom Chapin

  Song, Tin Pan Alley, Bob

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• Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

  Thomas Bulfinch

  Literature, Language, Mythology

  Thomas Bulfinch (2012). “Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology: The Age of Fable”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.

  Candice Bergen

  Book, Thinking, Quiet Moments

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• Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Art, Important, Opera

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• The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Numbers, Issues, Today

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• I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

  Jim Carrey

  Funny, Stupid, Support

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• I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.

  Ed Gillespie

  Past, Years, Political

  Interview with PBS, www.pbs.org.

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• If you can believe this, I didn't fight for my first world title fight till I had 58 fights, so I really appreciated what I was fighting for and for whom as well.

  Alexis Arguello

  Believe, Fighting, Titles

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• A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

  Frederick Douglass

  Patriotic, Reflection, Moral Growth

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.565, Chicago Review Press

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• There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

  Vera Brittain

  Truth, Abiding, May

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