Quotes About Appreciation

Sydney-based software firm Atlassian sends each new employee, whatever his or her position, to a resort spa the weekend before the start date as a way to celebrate the new job.

Studies have shown that for people to be happy and productive at work, they need to experience positive interactions (appreciation, praise) vs. negative (reprimands, criticism) with their manager in a ratio of at least 3:1. (Watch out: For a marriage to work, you actually need a 5:1 ratio!!) So make it a simple habit to thank people each and every day — and that includes using the word generously in emails to your team.

Remember that life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away!

It's not visual. He's not. You know him by his work, for one thing, and that part is visual, I suppose, isn't it? The sky, moon, stars, and trees, all those exotic colors you're apt to see in birds' feathers. When you look at a painting, you don't try to visualize the artist, do you? But you know somebody painted it or it wouldn't be there.

All the men I know add that "hands that prepared it" line. They must know it's right complimentary, an incentive to keep the women cooking.

Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.

a compliment is like a kiss through a veil.

Where women are honored, the divinities are pleased. Where they are despised, it is useless to pray to God.

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

Monseigneur, you who turn everything to account have, nevertheless, one useless plot. It would be better to grow salads there than bouquets. Madame Magloire, retorted the Bishop, you are mistaken. The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a pause, More so, perhaps.

First I loved women, then animals, and now I love stones. They're just as amusing as women and animals and they're much less trecherous.

Let us remark, by the way, that the hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. This hatred would involve the hatred of the arts.

For sixteen sous he had a smile and a dinner.

The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. This hatred would involve the hatred of the arts.

you are looking at a plain man and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.

Ali junski pljuskovi nisu ništa. Jedva i primetite, jedan sat posle kakve provale oblaka, da je taj lepi plavi dan plakao.

but the cat rejoices even over a lean mouse.

She hadn't been where it mattered, making memories with her husband and children. Maybe she'd thought time was more elastic, or love more forgiving.

Will ya look at it?" Dad threw his arms wide, as if he wanted to embrace it all. He seemed to be growing before their eyes, like a tree, spreading branches wide, becoming strong. He liked the nothingness he saw, the vast emptiness. It was what he'd come for.

Don't take peace for granted. It can shatter like glass.

Stop thinking about what you've lost, and think about what you have left.

There's nothing like motherhood to make us reassess how we were as daughters.

Words were like pennies, fallen into corners and down the cracks, not worth the effort of collecting.