Appreciation Quotations | Page 9

Friendship takes time and energy if it's going to work. You can luck into something great, but it doesn't last if you don't give it proper appreciation. Friendship can be so comfortable, but nurture it-don't take it for granted.

Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.

Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect.

We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation.

I think that there would be a sufficient appreciation of the magnitude of these devices that the taboo against using them would be present even if they had not been used in Japan.

I think that in that area, it's very clear that you have much more chances of positive appreciation in the next five to 10 years because of all the monies that are going to go there. There is so much interest there about what are we going to do, how are we going to develop?

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.

Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness: the beautiful and necessary prelude to sleep - a special pleasure in itself that is all too often neglected, under-valued or looked down upon.

It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.

Encourage one another. Many times a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept people on their feet.