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Quotes About Appreciation

we are grateful for the risks you are taking and the sacrifices you are making for the sake of the economic growth of the planet and pulling others out of poverty.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In their aftermath, who got the recognition?
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
enjoy our blessings, and try to preserve, by becoming more conservative
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
enjoy our blessings, and try to preserve, by becoming more conservative, what we got by luck.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
so she could read it in the original.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Burn old logs. Drink old wine. Read old books. Keep old friends.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
And the role of such formal knowledge will be overappreciated precisely because it is highly visible.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Si ella una noche no la encendía y se quedaba leyendo un libro en la butaca, él decía: «¿Cómo es que no enciendes la televisión? ¡Enciéndela! Si no, no sirve para nada tenerla. ¡Gino te la ha regalado y tú no la ves! ¡Le has hecho tirar el dinero! ¡Ahora por lo menos vela!».
~ Natalia Ginzburg
You have made my life better by just simply existing.
~ Natasha Friend
It's a funny thing, friendship. One minute a person is driving you crazy, making you want to shake them, and the next minute you realize what a crappy place the world would be without them in it.
~ Natasha Friend
If I enjoy a fundamental sense of efficacy and worth, and experience myself as lovable, then I have a foundation for appreciating and loving others.
~ Nathaniel Branden
It is evaluative praise that does not serve a child's interests. Appreciative praise, in contrast, can be productive both in supporting self-esteem and in reinforcing desired behavior.
~ Nathaniel Branden
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and habilities he must go out of himself to appreciate. The accidents in my life have often afforded me this advantage, but never with more fulness and variety than during my continuance in office.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house. So I have spent almost all the daylight hours in open air.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
La s?n?tatea moral? È™i intelectual? a unui om contribuie mult leg?turile de camaraderie cu oameni deosebiÈ›i de el, pe care nu-i prea intereseaz? È›elurile lui È™i care îl oblig? s? fac? un efort mintal pentru a le aprecia aptitudinile È™i sfera de preocup?ri.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Imagination, by casting certain circumstances judicially into the shade, may see much to admire
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
She said that it had always been thus with Clifford when the humming-birds came, -always, from his babyhood,-and that his delight in them had been one of the earliest tokens by which he showed his love for beautiful things.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
I can't destroy things so beautiful. Time will destroy them if you don't. Time destroys everything. But if you destroy them, it will mean something.
~ Neal Shusterman
Although I do not require devotion, am I not deserving of it?
~ Neal Shusterman
The world is a flower I hold in my palm. I would end my own existence rather than crush it.
~ Neal Shusterman
Count your blessings," the captain says. "And if you count less than ten, cut off the remaining fingers.
~ Neal Shusterman
It is human nature to take the most magical of worlds for granted, turning each one into a blank canvas upon which to paint the lives of those who would live there. Only an outsider can see a world's wonders for what they truly are.
~ Neal Shusterman
She knew the greatest gift she could give her mentor was to listen.
~ Neal Shusterman