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Quotes About Acknowledgment

When she said that we'd say "thanks" and it might have sounded as if we were thanking her for seeing us that way but actually we were thanking her for giving us whatever goodness was in us.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Peace, then, be unto everyone who becomes a teacher of peace. For peace is the acknowledgment of perfect purity from which no one is excluded.
~ Helen Schucman
But feelings don't shift unless they're accepted exactly the way they are, neither more nor less. If they're intense, they're intense! Once they're accepted, they'll change into another form. But until then, they'll stick around. Bonnie,
~ Helene Brenner
Executive coach Alan Allard told me, "Listening shows respect, even if you don't agree with what the person is saying.
~ Helene Lerner
this gives me distance from the remark. I acknowledge the person, let her know I need time to digest it, and tell her I'll get back to her shortly. I then assess what I've heard to determine what is true about it and what isn't. If I feel the need, I talk it out with a trusted friend. Here is the method Andrea Zintz, career coach
~ Helene Lerner
Nous serons reconnus par les grandes douleurs.
~ Henri Barbusse
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
~ Henry Kissinger
There are records I play like when someone goes to the temple and spins the prayer wheel. Like The Crack by the Ruts, which is a great record anyway but sometimes I play it just so the room is filled with it, so the air can't say it doesn't exist, so the walls must acknowledge it.
~ Henry Rollins
And it occurs to no one that to acknowledge a greatness not commensurate with the standard of right and wrong is merely to admit one's own nothingness and immeasurable meanness.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Alexey Alexandrovitch bowed his head in assent.
~ Leo Tolstoy
To accept the dignity of another person is an axiom. It has nothing to do with subduing, supporting, or giving charity to other people.
~ Leo Tolstoy
It wasn't until 1822 that a reigning pope officially declared that the sun could be at the center of the solar system. And it took until 1985 for the Vatican to acknowledge that Galileo was a great scientist and that he had been wronged by the Church.
~ Leon M. Lederman
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
~ Leonard Mlodinow
I see clearly that I have achieved practically nothing.
~ Leonard Woolf
I wanted to thank you. If it wasn't for you, I'd never have known I had a right to be me.
~ Leslie Feinberg
Even when ignored or denied, truth is the ultimate reference point.
~ Leslie Miklosy
Sometimes I pick up a book and I say: Well, so you've written it first, have you? Good for you. O.K., then I won't have to write it.
~ lessing doris iv
But the thing about monsters was, you couldn't talk to them about it, because they wouldn't admit they were monsters in the first place.
~ Lev Grossman
But strange though it may seem, the more he judged, and the more he realized that men feared and acknowledged his right to judge, the more his innermost soul questioned man's right to judgment of any kind.
~ Lev Shestov
More striking still, a broken man is generally deprived of everything except the ability to acknowledge and feel his position.
~ Lev Shestov
Thanks to Conte, I got the urge of coaching, and I thank him for that.
~ Andrea Pirlo
I am not facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will than become urgent.
~ Alfred Schnittke
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
~ James Allen