Appreciators Quotes & Sayings

If self is a location, so is love:
Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points,
Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance,
Here and there and now and then, a stance. — Seamus Heaney

Normally, we don't consider the audience in the genius equation. We assume that they are merely the passive recipients of the gifts that the genius bestows. They are much more than that, though. They are the appreciators of genius, and as art critic Clive Bell said, "The essential characteristic of a highly civilized society is not that it is creative but that it is appreciative." By that measure, Vienna was the most highly civilized society to grace the planet. Mozart — Eric Weiner

I want a better world, but also a realistic world. We can only create a better world by becoming realistic. — Oliviero Toscani

Going too fast is one of the mistakes all negotiators are prone to making. — Chris Voss

Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond their capacity of apprehension; therefore it at once finds its appreciators. The achievement of genius, on the other hand, transcends not only others' capacity of achievement, but also their capacity of apprehension; therefore they do not become immediately aware of it. Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see. — Arthur Schopenhauer

What is wrong with strengthening the opposition? You lose nothing, ... But let them abide by the rules. — Hosni Mubarak

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way. — Robert B. Parker

When a fellow says, 'It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,' it's the money. — Kin Hubbard

The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why. — J.K. Rowling

The universe shrank to Curran and his pain. I had to break him free. Nothing else mattered. — Ilona Andrews

It was as if he were in a place that the whole world had forgotten; as if it were snowing at the end of the world. — Orhan Pamuk

Truth is quantum. It is beyond space and time. Relativity only proves this. — Dean Cavanagh

Who shall say that those poor peasants were not acting in the spirit we most venerate, most adore; that theirs was not the true heart language which we cannot choose but love? And what has been their reward? They have sent down their name to be the by-word of all after ages; the worst reproach of the worst men a name convertible with atheism and devil-worship. — James Anthony Froude

The leader ... is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas. — Warren G. Bennis