Quotes About Appreciation

Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.

All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.

No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.

Don't hurry, don't worry. You're here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers.

until the body fails us, or pains us, or forces itself upon our attention by some little twinge or complete collapse, we tend to take for granted this first and most precious of God's gifts to man or to give it short shrift.

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Being read is a fringe benefit, and being read with understanding is a form of grace.

Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.

Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's always been like that.

Mein Freund der Dichter beschrieb nun die einfachsten Dinge, die er finden konnte",fuhr er fort, "und stellte fest, daß es das Schwierigste überhaupt war. Es war leicht, einen Palast aus Schnee und Eis zu beschreiben, aber unsäglich schwer, dasselbe mit einem einzelnen Haar zu tun. Oder einem Löffel. Einem Nagel. Einem Zahn. Einem Salzkorn. Einem Holzsplitter. Einer Kerzenflamme. Einem Wassertropfen.

In my profession it isn't a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money — it's always been like that. What do I, an agent, get out of a literary genius who won't be discovered for another hundred years? I'll be dead myself then. Successful incompetents are what I need.

It's really sad that the kids today can only relate to Beethoven via a rock version of his music.

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

Amarte en la diferencia es amarte dos veces

la comunidad te hace un reconocimiento o una felicitación honesta y franca, no los desprecies ni les des a entender que se equivocaron. No digas que no la mereces ¡di gracias y cállate!

Mi felicidad consiste en que sé apreciar lo que tengo y no deseo con exceso lo que no tengo. LEÓN TOLSTÓI

It is attention, really, that is the big resource; it is being acknowledged. It is being told you did a great job.

Don't imagine having things that you don't have. Rather, pick the best of the things that you do have and think of how much you would want them if you didn't have them. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.27

Zeit ist doch nichts zum Anfassen, [...]. Wie kann man sie da verschwenden?

Roko Belic, who believes that "gratitude is a shortcut to happiness.

A girl in a convertible is worth five in the phonebook.

a living dog is better than a dead lion.