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They combined the results from the previous polls with a new preliminary poll to determine the 18 most admired people. [1] The 1999 final poll produced an ordered list of 18 people, 12 of whom were males and 12 of whom were American citizens; the highest ranked non-American and non-male was (Saint) Mother Teresa, at #1.
It's difficult to hurt someone you admire. It's even more difficult to kill a fellow human being. Seeing the casualties you create as something less than you, something deserving of damage, makes it possible to continue seeing yourself as a good and honest person, to continue being sane."
Americans are asked, without prompting, to say which man and woman "living today in any part of the world" they admire the most. [2] [3] The results of the poll were published as a top ten list. In most years, the most admired man was the incumbent president of the United States, and the most admired woman was the first lady. [4]
Denzel Washington has an approach to navigating Hollywood his son Malcolm can’t help but admire. “If you know anything about my dad, he's about the work,” Malcolm, 33, tells PEOPLE at ...
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who stepped down in 2021 after 16 years in office, was named Time’s Person of the Year in 2015.. The magazine cited Merkel’s economic leadership as well ...
"When you tell someone that you respect and admire a goal of yours, you are more likely to accomplish it," she said. For her, being a member of her high school and college track and field team was ...
Sara Algoe and Jonathan Haidt [1] include admiration in the category of other-praising emotions, alongside awe, elevation, and gratitude.They propose that admiration is the emotion we feel towards non-moral excellence (i.e., witnessing an act of excellent skill), while elevation is the emotion we feel towards moral excellence (i.e., witnessing someone perform an act of exceeding virtue).
In Yiddish, a mensch or mentsh [a] is "a person of integrity and honor". [2] American humorist Leo Rosten describes a mentsh as "someone to admire and emulate, someone of noble character. The key to being 'a real mensch' is nothing less than character, rectitude, dignity, a sense of what is right, responsible, decorous". [ 3 ]