Quotes About Acknowledgment

How great, I thought, to honor people while they are still alive.

That there's great joy in thanking.

I gave people who didn't know what to say the best advice I could muster, which was that it was better to say anything rather than pretend that nothing was wrong. My hunch was that Mom would simply appreciate knowing that people were thinking of her.

What I suddenly understood was that a thank-you note isn't the price you pay for receiving a gift, as so many children think it is, a kind of minimum tribute or toll, but an opportunity to count your

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you"?

it is not talking about a loss but rather pretending that it doesn't exist that stirs up trouble.

As for the rest of the emotions grieving people feel, treat them seriously, but don't consider them as something you personally caused. Don't get defensive or argumentative.

Who are you?" "No one of consequence." "I must know." "Get used to disappointment.

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

We Americans are so good at critiquing our own nation, so determined to make it better, that sometimes we neglect to acknowledge all that is wonderful about it. Let us not commit the sin of ingratitude for so many blessings.

The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

My experience is what I agree to attend to.

Akama made a small bow. "I can see why he fears you. You are very much alike.

Hope had finally learned to live in the present. Often, when she found herself in a space of tremendous comfort, usually out in nature, or when her children were safe all around her and on the verge of going to bed, she forced herself to take stock. Here you are, Hope, she told herself. What a beautiful moment. You may never again be here at this spot, enjoying the calm. This habit of hers, to acknowledge the immediate and elusive joy of the present, kept her sane.

I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous.

Darwinians, then, have never paid, or even acknowledged, the debt they have all along owed the public: a reconciliation of their teleological explanations of particular adaptations with their non-teleological explanation of adaptation in general. And not only have they never paid this debt: they have in fact become progressively less conscious, with time, of the fact that they owe this debt. This

The rest of the world should know who really defeated the Germans.

I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something I think that's human nature.

Mais ce n'est pas grave de ne pas avoir de talent. Il faut simplement avoir le talent de le reconnaître.

Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.