There’s people that appreciate what I do; there’s people that criticize it.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

One thing I’ve always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they’ll tell you, ‚We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.‘

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

No one wants advice – only corroboration.

When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

Give a critic an inch, he’ll write a play.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

Especially when you’re at a high level in an organization, criticism can be devastating to an employee. I prefer to praise employees for what they’re doing right, and it tends to lead to them doing more of the same. Not always, but it’s the way I choose to bet.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

Right after the assassination of Osama bin Laden, amid all the cheers and applause, there were a few critical comments questioning the legality of the act.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

The way to know life is to love many things.

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that’s fine with me!

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‚Sexiest Man Alive,‘ I’m honestly going, ‚Thank you. Right on.‘ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‚Does this make me less talented of an actor?‘

I think it’s a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Everyone who is critical of Israeli policy is deluged by crazed messages intended to flood their email system or, more insidiously, passwords are accessed and messages sent out under their name! I’m sure it’s illegal. It’s also an effort to undermine free speech.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.

In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.

I don’t generally read reviews.