In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.
Lennart Meri

In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.
Gustav Mahler

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
Dale Carnegie

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
David Foster Wallace

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.
Steve Winwood

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
John Steinbeck

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Oscar Wilde

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.
James Baldwin

It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.
Cass Gilbert

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.
George Eastman

Many admire, few know.
Hippocrates

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mirrors are ice which do not melt: what melts are those who admire themselves in them.
Paul Morand

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
Barbara Walters

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.
James Broughton

My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregation and to the rabbi, who happens to be my wife's cousin and who I admire greatly. I talk to him regularly but I consider myself more spiritual than religious.
Leonard Nimoy

Not only must Americans admire Israel, there can be no doubt that we have an interest in, and special responsibility for, that valiant nation.
George Ball

Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.
Joanna Trollope

One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country.
Vincent Bugliosi

Oscar night is a ridiculous night where you go to these parties and you see everyone that you've ever wanted to work with and admire.
Jordana Brewster