Quotes About Acknowledgment

Dr. Dewey said that the deepest urge in human nature is "the desire to be important." Remember that phrase: "the desire to be important." It is significant. You are going to hear a lot about it in this book.

Lincoln once began a letter saying: "Everybody likes a compliment." William James said: "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

If you're wrong, admit it!

Begin with praise and honest appreciation.

because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

In a sane world, we would be heroes. Teachers would applaud as we walked into the school. There is the smart one, the one who wants to be a writer. And there is the runner.

have helped me make corrections or clear a few things up. And as always, I am most deeply indebted to my wife, Cathy, for her editing, suggestions, wise counsel, and so very much more.

I decided then to write this book. Jobs surprised me by readily acknowledging that he would have no control over it or even the right to see it in advance. "It's your book," he said. "I won't even read it." But later that fall he seemed to have second thoughts about cooperating and, though I didn't know it, was hit by another round of cancer complications. He stopped returning my calls, and I put the project aside for a while.

I'm deeply grateful to John and Ann Doerr, Laurene Powell, Mona Simpson, Leon Wieseltier, and Ken Auletta, all of whom provided invaluable support along the way. Alice Mayhew, who has been my editor at Simon & Schuster for thirty years, and Jonathan Karp, the publisher, both were extraordinarily diligent and attentive in shepherding this book, as was

What drives people to do good things is recognition.

I desire no man's regard, Mr. Rashleigh, on such terms as must sink me in my own.

When "dumb" money acknowledges its limitations, it ceases to be dumb.

The perfect and genuine faith is that which daily acknowledges the works (i.e., facts) that the Lord has accomplished. The meaning of claiming is to acknowledge daily all that the Lord has accomplished for us, that is, to acknowledge that all these accomplishments are effective in us. Then

Take pride in refusing to take credit for the achievements of others.

don't seek praise or run from it.

I've got to quit avoiding truths -Lisette

Indeed, any effort is usually in denying our awareness and expression of it.

Shermy: Men are better than women! Patty: They are not!! Shermy: Washington was a man! Jefferson was a man! Lincoln was a man! Patty: Your mother is a woman!! Shermy: You got me!

Posterity is grateful if our contemporaries are not.

To have a thing is little, if you're not allowed to show it, to know a thing, is nothing unless others know you know it.

The best way to let go is to notice the thoughts as they come up and to acknowledge them.

It's reality. And reality is what we have to accept, like it or not.

You will regret the small thing you didn't say for the rest of your life. Say thank you.

Acceptance asks only that you embrace what's true.