The root of admiration is wonder, as the Latin (mirar, to wonder) suggests. And "wonder" is as two-sided, as dialectical, as ambisexual as human beings themselves. "Wonder" is "wondering at" and "wondering about." "Wondering at" is watching and reverencing; "wondering about" is asking and reckoning. "Wondering at" is Eastern, receptive, contemplation as an end in itself; "wondering about" is Western, acting upon, and a means to an end.
— Robert Kegan, In Over Our Heads