appreciation quotes

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

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

I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I’m cool with the praise. I’m good.

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

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.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

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

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

It was such a leap in my career when ‚Truman Show‘ came along. It’s always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that’s OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

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

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

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.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.

I’m screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I’m funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that’s appreciated by young people.

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.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

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

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

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.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.