I appreciate life, talk a lot, love to laugh, and am very optimistic.
I don't really like to work with literary allusions very much. I never want to be in a position where I'm saying, "You've got to read a lot of other stuff" or "You've got to have had a good education in literature to fully appreciate what I'm doing."
...there is no such thing as a charmed life, not for any of us, no matter where we live or how mindfully we attend to the tasks at hand. But there are charmed moments, all the time, in every life and in every day, if we are only awake enough to experience them when they come and wise enough to appreciate them.
If I like a film, I usually appreciate the way it was made the first time.
When you become a parent, you finally appreciate and understand what your mother did.
Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.
There's so much to appreciate about my life every single day, and I make a big point of taking time to smell the roses and noticing how lucky I am. I never want to take that for granted.
The thing I can say about all this stuff that's going on right now is that I appreciate it.
Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.
The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the value of words.
If someone who knows what's going on comes up and says they liked the music, I appreciate that.
I am very direct and I tend to treat everyone exactly the same, which sometimes gets me in trouble because some movie stars feel like they should be treated differently. But, when you're dealing with good actors, they really appreciate it.
I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.
I'm a London fanatic. That's my city. I love being from there, you don't appreciate it until you go out.
I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself.
If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness.
Americans appreciate the way our friends around the world are sticking by us, and we all hope for their continued support in what's going to be some very trying times.
So take a new approach as to how you feel emotions. It's not about the right emotion or the wrong emotion; it's about honoring the way that you're feeling. We tend to think that being sensitive is a weakness, but it really gives us an ability to be compassionate and to appreciate so many things in the world.
I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.
Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.
High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it.
When we let go of yearning for the future, preoccupation with the past, and strategies to protect the present, there is nowhere left to go but where we are. To connect with the present moment is to begin to appreciate the beauty of true simplicity.
All I have is me. Over-worked, under-appreciated, middle-aged, and shriveled up.
I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.
