Quotes About Appreciation

Daniel Day Lewis

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for what we have.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

focus on what they have in life rather than what they don't have.

Noticing what you like about others more than what you don't is a recipe for happy relationships and happiness overall.

every day, write out five things for which you are grateful.

As soon as our potential experience becomes our actual experience—as soon as we have a stake in its goodness—our brains get busy looking for ways to think about the experience that will allow us to appreciate it.

One day you will die, but death is not your enemy and it only makes you to appreciate life's gifts more with each passing second.

In other words, where "if-then" rewards are a mistake, shift to "now that" rewards—as in "Now that you've finished the poster and it turned out so well, I'd like to celebrate by taking you out to lunch.

First, consider nontangible rewards. Praise and positive feedback are much less corrosive than cash and trophies.

We search for the ordinary when we are surrounded by the extraordinary.

You can be grateful for what you enjoy, not longing for what you are missing.

I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better.

Landscape is more than flat land covered by floodwater, the seeping of peat bogs, a river of liquid pewter viewed from a sentry tower. It's an influence on what a person values, what she is willing to sacrifice or argue for.

Unlike life, a work of art never gets taken for granted: it is always viewed against its precursors and predecessors.

If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.

A still image attracts the viewer with an overall impact, then reveals smaller details upon further study.

It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at the heart of aesthetic appreciation.

As a reader and as a viewer, usually when I watch a movie, I'm caught up enough in the movie that I'm not breaking it down to the details anyway.

The need to look behind the curtain is great for a filmmaker. But whether you want to deconstruct what you like as a viewer, what you like and don't like, I wish we could let films stand on their own a little bit.

It's not necessary that everything needs to be spoon-fed to the viewer for every story.

I always wish I could just see the 'Stranger Things' from an audience standpoint and not from mine. 'Cause when I watch it, I remember someone was behind there and behind there. I just can't watch it like a viewer. But I love seeing something on paper come to TV.