Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Ferriss

I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.

Rumi

To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.

Rumi

Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself...

Natalie Goldberg

Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

Natalie Portman

I can sleep a whole day. If no one woke me up, I would sleep for 24 hours. I think it's a combination of my age and my appreciation for sleep. Sleep is so wonderful. Sometimes you can oversleep and feel like you've waster your time, but I think it's one of the bestways to spend your time.

Tony Robbins

When life's conditions don't equal your expectations you are unhappy, have no expectations only appreciations (especially in the area of relationships)

Tony Robbins

Happiness is found in the absence of expectation and a continuous focus on appreciation.

Tony Robbins

If you want to change your life in the fastest way possible, trade your expectations of others for appreciation.

Tony Robbins

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Thomas Merton

We assume that others are receiving the kind of appreciation we want for ourselves, and we proceed on the assumption that since we are not loveable as we are, we must become lovable under false pretenses, as if we were something better than we are.

Thomas Merton

The only true liberty is in the service of that which is beyond all limits, beyond all definitions, beyond all human appreciation: that which is All, and which therefore is no limited or individual thing: The All is no-thing, for if it were to be a single thing separated from all other things, it would not be All.

Thomas Carlyle

One of the Godlike things of this world is the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men.

Tom Waits

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.

Steve Martin

The presence of excessive wealth puts an unnatural spin on the appreciation of art.

Stephen Hawking

When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have

Spencer Tracy

It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it.

Shakti Gawain

This morning take a few minutes to reflect on how you give of yourself to the world. Often we get caught up in the frenzy of buying and giving things. Look at the ways you give appreciation, friendship, energy, time, love, and affection, and give of your own special talents and abilities throughout the year. Acknowledge yourself for having enriched the lives of others. Spend some time loving yourself for the giving light that you are.

Scott Weiland

I see love, like art, as an obsession. Maybe that's an overly romantic view of human existence, but I'm an overly romantic human being. If love, like rock and roll, doesn't consume me 24-7, it's not love. It can be respect, appreciation, admiration, wonderment, it can be a world of glory and a lifetime of peace, but I can't call it love. Love burns me and confuses me. Love's a light that can't be extinguished.

Richard Boucher

The minister expressed appreciation for the offer, and our embassy in Uzbekistan will be following up in more detail with them

Robert Adams

Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones.

Robert A. Heinlein

Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.

Rick Bayan

Golf is the art of driving hard, avoiding the rough, surmounting traps and hazards, aiming straight, and arriving on the green at last, only to end up in a hole in the ground before your companions. The favored pastime of businessmen and their cronies, probably without a full appreciation of its metaphorical implications.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.

Tom Vilsack

I wish I could give you all the examples over the last two years as secretary of agriculture, where I hear people in rural America constantly being criticized, without any expression of appreciation for what they do do.

Vin Diesel

If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.

Vidya Balan

I always wanted to live the lives of different people, portray characters that are different from me. But I could have done that in front of a mirror, also, I didn't need to do films for that. At the end of the day, it's this fame, recognition, popularity, the love and appreciation you get from your audience that drives you.

Vidya Balan

I've wanted recognition; I wanted success; I wanted appreciation; I love the perks of being in the movies. I love the fame that comes with it - but that's why I became an actor.

Vidya Balan

Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.

Robert Benchley

This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation.

Rita Mae Brown

Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.

Thomas Paine

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.

Tony Hale

My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path.

Tryon Edwards

Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.