“What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.” PeopleHumansHardFallPracticeStyleWalkingMountainAppreciateLifetimeManageSkullsUnstable Author:Randall Munroe
“It took some time before the public learned that to appreciate an Impressionist painting one has to step back a few yards, and enjoy the miracle of seeing these puzzling patches suddenly fall into one place and come to life before our eyes.” EyeFallEnjoyStepsSeeingPaintingAppreciateMiracleYardsPatchesPuzzlingImpressionismImpressionists Author:Ernst Gombrich
“People realize that we're certainly faced with an abnormal amount of adversity. The Cincinnati faithful is still going through a healing process with what transpired with Coach Huggins in the fall. But over the 20 games they've seen this team, I think they appreciate the fact that this team continues to fight, even though they're not always happy with the result.” PeopleThinkingStillsFactsFallFightingGamesProcessRealizingResultsHealingTeamAmountAppreciateAdversityCoachesFaithfulAbnormalAlways HappyHealing Process Author:Andy Kennedy
“A man who falls straight into bed night after night, and ceases to live until the moment when he wakes and rises, will surely never dream of making, I don't say great discoveries, but even minor observations about sleep. He scarcely knows that he is asleep. A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.” KnowsMenLittlesMomentsDreamLightNightValuesFallSleepDarknessBedDiscoveryAppreciateCeaseObservationThrowingRaysMinorsInsomniaRays Of Light Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book) Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)
“You have to watch India in India truly to appreciate the pressure that Sachin Tendulkar is under every time he bats. Outside grounds, people wait until he goes in before paying to enter. They seem to want a wicket to fall even though it is their own side that will suffer.” PeopleWantSeemsSufferingFallWaitingSidesWatchesAppreciateIndiaPressureBatsTendulkar Author:Shane Warne