Admiration Quotations | Page 2

The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.

I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.

The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.

I have a lot of respect and admiration for someone like Cate Blanchett, find Emma Thompson wonderful, Meryl Streep inspiring, Juliette Binoche full of light and Catherine Deneuve incredible.

I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia.

Awe consumes any brand that ignites it ...

Wal-Mart deserves their high admiration level because they do what they say. They give America a place to buy at low prices in stores where employees seem happy to be there and willing to assist customers when questions are asked.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes the edge off admiration

When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big city with nothing and make it.

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy

You have my thanks, my appreciation, my admiration. You can't pay people enough to take the risks that you do.

When I work with the youngsters, I try to see them in the way that Wayne Shorter sees me, ... It puts things in order. There is a respect and admiration I feel for people like Wayne or Herbie (Hancock). And there is a respect that people like Kirk (Hammett) feels for me. There is a respect that our children will feel for them also.

Fame infantilises and grants relative impunity. Those that seek it, out of an exaggerated need for admiration or attention, are often the least well equipped to deal with criticism.

but our respect and admiration does not grant judges the powers many have assumed over the years.

We're going to act quickly and aggressively to detect any kind of fraud and vigorously pursue it if we find it.

Bill was a great friend, a brilliant performer and an exceptional man. I say this with great admiration and love that Bill becomes one of the people that I give the cloak of immortality. Time never stops for the great ones.

Craig Stevens has shown great mateship and won the admiration and support of all Australians,

The Rolex 24 At Daytona is a great race with a lot of history and to compete in it with GAINSCO/Blackhawk Racing is a great opportunity for me. I am proud to be a part of the All-American lineup with talented young drivers like Alex and Rocky. I grew up in admiration of the success of both of their fathers. It will be exciting to race with them, and Bob as well, who proved in his rookie year last season that he's got what it takes.

I've always hoped 'Chopped' would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food, but at the same time, we are inflicting extraordinary cruelty on them.

I've always had a tremendous amount of respect and admiration for the way Toni plays the game. In addition to his solid, veteran presence on the floor, Toni's knowledge and experience will be an invaluable asset to the younger players on our roster.

Rusty earned the respect and admiration of fellow drivers and fans with his engaging personality and unquestioned racing ability - attributes that will continue to entertain race fans.

Drawing must seek interest, not admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

This is a chance for these servicemen and women to feel the admiration and respect of 20,000 people, reinforcing for them that we as a nation feel grateful for what they have done for us.

There was some conflict there over Saturday nights because we were all really broke in those days- all the money you had in the world was in your pockets. Nowadays when you're say you're broke, it's not the same thing.

They're an impatient group, and I say that with admiration. Mentally, our guys are in a great spot and a great frame of mind about what they want to get out of this season as individuals, and more importantly, as a team.

Daniel had to put up with a lot from me. Here's a boy who's tied up with a man pushing his finger into the wound on his head, laughing and delighting in the pain he's causing. He had to act as though he was in agony and terror without having many words to say. I was full of admiration for him.

It's special from the fact Sarah stuck with basketball, knowing she is not going to play a lot. I have a lot of admiration for her.

Everyone looked at him like he was their ... savior, ... everywhere he went he was an object of admiration and adoration -- and yet he couldn't muffle the growing discontent, the helplessness he felt at his inability to control not so much the world around him as his private world, the inner world that was revealed to no one but him.

No attention is paid to the blame or praise that others may give. It does not seek the admiration or the appreciation of the listeners. 

It's great to be a part of this. It's such a unique opportunity to be on the same team with players who I have so much admiration for.

Then by good luck W. B. Yeats, liking my first book of verse, asked me to come and see him. I owe more to him than to any man living, and my intense admiration for his work was reinforced by my intense admiration for himself.

The ladies in the United States appeared to me to be extremely domestic. However fond they may be of admiration as girls, after their early marriages they become dutiful wives and affectionate, devoted mothers. And in a country where there are few faithful attached servants, far more devolves upon the mother than English ladies have any idea of.

I love live performance and have huge admiration for people who can really do it. It's the same with music: I'll play a record and think that I'm not really into country or ragga. But, if it's live and the musicians are good, I'll listen to pretty much anything.

In life, we pursue and work hard for the respect we feel an honorary title carries. Will it be etched on your headstone: In this grave lays a great CEO, VP and so on? After searching for years, wisdom has spoken: Your name holds the key to your diary of life. In the end, the admiration and true story will be told in a good mans name, not in a man made title.

I'm proud of what he did. Suppose he hadn't given her a job? He at least gave her a job so she could survive. I have a lot of respect and admiration for the congressman.

I have nothing but admiration for everybody on our team tonight,

I have the utmost admiration for makeup artists. It's truly magical what they can accomplish with their materials. The face and the body are really their canvas.

I have the greatest respect and admiration for Congressman Issa, but I don't intend to be Darrell Issa-like.

I have the greatest respect and admiration for both UA and Purdue. I really like the schools, the teams and the coaches. I really believe it's going to be a terrific game.

I really had a lot of admiration and respect for Glenn Davis,

If you write music that is touching enough, you will win people's admiration despite your limitation in technical respects.

I have watched Valley for many years, and it's been more out of admiration than anything else of how they go about their business,

Being a lady gets her what she wants, which is the attention and admiration of very wealthy men.

To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life.

He (Zedillo) leaves office with the admiration of the people of Mexico. The president told him that he should be proud of what he has accomplished there.

I don't know if they can get enough done here

By our going ahead and extending him, this shows the respect and admiration we have for Phil ... as a leader and as a person of accomplishment.

He's tough-minded. He's got a tough, disciplined way of doing things. I know from going against him out here, it's extremely tough. You've got to be ready for a little of everything. It's a scheme I admire. You've got to have a lot of admiration for what they did last year. A new staff, third best in the league stat-wise, and we didn't do what we should do on offense to support him.

He's tough-minded. He's got a tough, disciplined way of doing things, ... I know from going against him out here, it's extremely tough. You've got to be ready for a little of everything. It's a scheme I admire. You've got to have a lot of admiration for what they did last year. A new staff, third best in the league stat-wise, and we didn't do what we should do on offense to support him.

He's a player that in Canada, they love the way he plays and he got a lot of admiration last year when he went to the World Junior and won a gold medal for Team Canada. He's a great kid and a good person, and that's what people like about him. They can tell he's a good person.

He's an amazingly knowledgeable guy. I don't think we're going to be sharing fashion tips anytime soon, but as a television professional and a guy who knows a lot about food, I have a lot of admiration for the guy.

Admiration: Our feeling of delight that another person resembles us.

Admiration is one of the chief delights of living.

I encourage all Americans to express admiration and appreciation to fathers.

Those are brave men," he told Ser Balon in admiration. "Let's go kill them.

She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

I don't know how it is...but you seem to think me something wonderful, and indeed, I am not.

He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.

We always like those who admire us.

Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.

I doubt that we Americans can come to terms with our money neuroses without understanding the more florid pathology of the very rich for it is our envy and admiration of the rich that supports their habit and keeps us hooked ourselves

I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.

Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

He always said if he could no longer perform up to his standards or be an everyday player that he would walk away. I enjoyed having him as a teammate, that sarcasm and humor. I have the utmost respect and admiration for what he has done in this game.

great ... I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something. I don't know if my agent was particularly thrilled about the 12-month contract I've signed, but still. It's thrilling. It's such a dream to go to Broadway and do the first Australian musical ever to go there, and playing a character who I have huge, huge admiration for. So, I'm really looking forward to it. I'm probably more excited about that than I've been in a while.

great admiration for the extraordinary work that has been carried out by Germany's chancellor

When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.

Ellen [Page] and I had only met a couple of times, but had mutual admiration for each other's work. When I first heard about the film [Into the Forest], I was excited to get a chance to work with one of my peers because it's usually one or the other. You don't get to work with all of the other actors that you're usually competing with.

There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.

It is as well not to have too great an admiration for your master's work. You will be in less danger of imitating him.

Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.

What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,-generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration.

Few men are admired by their servants.

Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.

You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.

I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it’s difficult to analyze love when you’re in it.

Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.

I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another.

I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist.

You know my powers, my dear Watson, and yet at the end of three months I was forced to confess that I had at last met an antagonist who was my intellectual equal. My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill.

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

Allen proves as well as anyone else has ever proven that if you've got game and you leave it all out there, you pick up the admiration of people around the world. And we love to see that happening. Because that's what shows our game at its best, sort of the teamwork, what it takes to play at the level and what he's willing to put up with in terms of injuries to continue to excel at this level.

While I disagree with our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, I have nothing but respect and admiration for the men and women deployed in these places.

The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.

The ideal, of course, is to have the respect of professionals and the admiration of amateurs. I suppose this was the case in the past.

The highest admiration I have for my colleagues is not for someone in a studio in New York but for somebody on the ground in places that they've gone to fight to tell the story.

You will always hear the people who tell you that you are nothing; that you cannot accomplish anything, that you will fail, that you will never amount to anything, and that you will never reach your dreams. The one you don't hear is the person who would hoist you on their shoulders to prove everyone else wrong.

The effort the players have put in has been tremendous. I have great admiration for them for what they do week-in, week-out and year-in, year-out.

I learned from admiration and osmosis.

It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.

Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark." "Nat Parson's a gobshite." Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson 'gobshite.

Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point.

I was trapped in admiration for what I had once admired, as a fly in amber remains the captive of some long-vanished pine.

He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.

Friendship, trust, honor, respect, admiration, this whole experience has been such a revelation.

Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.