Quotes About Appreciation

My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which now that I look back on some things, she would love it, she would say that's amazing, or if I'd make the ugliest drawing, she would hang it up. She was amazing.

Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out...

Natural Wonders Every Child Should Know by Edwin Tenney Brewster.

Good design is a form of respect—on the part of the producer for the person who will spend hard-earned cash on the product, use the product, own the product.

So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

We have been taught not to like things. Finally somebody said it was OK to like things. This was a great relief.

Some say this evanescence helps focus our attention. They claim that we listen more closely when we know we only have one chance, one fleeting moment to grasp something, and as a result our enjoyment is deepened.

Does asking oneself these questions in an attempt to see how the machine works spoil the enjoyment? It hasn't for me. Music isn't fragile. Knowing how the body works doesn't take away from the pleasure of living.

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.

For many kids, a good teacher may be the most palpable form of honor they will ever experience.

Qué relación guardas con el tiempo cuando lo tienes contado?

Il faut avoir peur de perdre les choses pour les aimer passionnément.

Tienden al equilibrio y poseen una paz mental que aniquila la raíz psicológica de la enfermedad. Son apreciados por los demás y saben cuidarse a sí mismos. Ven la vida como un aprendizaje y resaltan siempre lo positivo en todas las cosas, incluso durante la enfermedad, se esfuerzan por comprender y no suprimir.

I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it. It took me a long time to appreciate that.

the second time you see something is really the first time. You need to know how it ends before you can appreciate how beautifully it's put together from the beginning.

Talk of joy there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread -- there may be.

Talvolta è più offensivo essere apprezzati per i motivi sbagliati che essere disprezzati per quelli giusti.

Take it from me, the best way to be appreciated somewhere is to not be there, you get me?

His questions led me to comprehend that I had a rare treasure: life experience.

from the minute I saw your face, your round, light-filled face, with its beautiful, wise, pure forehead, with its roots of strong, dense hair, which I stupidly believed testified to your strong grip on life, and your broad, large, generous, dancing body – don't you dare erase even one of those adjectives – you were such medicine for me, such medicine for the dry bachelorhood that had closed in on me

Con le lacrime agli occhi, quel giorno mi hai chiesto che orologio avessi e io ho riso, dicendo che non era un particolare importante. Al che, immediatamente, hai risposto: "Tutto è importante, come fai a non capire che tutto quello che racconti è importante e prezioso per me? Tutti i tuoi particolari.

In this brutal world of incessantly exploding sound effects, pubescent song lyrics and banal advertisements appealing to the lowest common denominator, the trick is to take refuge with the very small band of survivors who savor words like chocolates.

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.