Depreciate Quotes

“Creativity sparks originality which then manifests itself into what we call evolution. To depreciate imagination is to depreciate life.”

“Leaders are lovers of change. Without change, growth is static. To lead, you have to appreciate change; else change will depreciate you!”

“We live in a culture that celebrates talent more than integrity, but we've got it backward. Talent depreciates over time. So do intellect and appearance. You will eventually lose your strength and lose your looks. You may even lose your mind. But you don't have to lose your integrity. Integrity is the only thing that doesn't depreciate over time. Nothing takes longer to build than a godly reputation. And nothing is destroyed more quickly by one stroke of sin. That's why it must be celebrated and protected above all else.”

“A connection could be drawn between the secular ascent of biblical values in today's world and the depreciation of beauty that characterizes it on so many levels. Beauty today is often depreciated as monotonous or denounced as a constraining norm, when it is simply reduced to a pure spectacle accompanied by a rehabilitation or even exaltation of deformity and ugliness, as can be seen in many areas. The degeneration of beauty and the promotion of ugliness, tied to the flowering of intellectualism, could be certainly be part of the Umwertung stigmatized by Nietzsche.”

“All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.”

“To be depreciated and humiliated isn't a statement of your worth but rather an evidence of your disregarded potential.”

“A writer's pen depreciates with every word that it writes. Whereas she appreciates with every word that she writes.”

“Suffering, he thought later, could rob a man of his empathy, could turn him selfish, could make him depreciate all other sufferers.”

“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.”