Quotes About Recognition

At no time did anyone throw his cap in the air and rejoice that another painter, capable of equaling Hals at his best, had been discovered.

He who prizes little things is worthy of great ones

I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.

I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody says that she does not look like it but that does not make any difference, she will.

If we happen to be praised on account of qualities which we formerly despised, our estimation of those qualities immediately rises.

God remains great, even when others refuse to recognize, know or seek after Him. He never stops loving, caring and protecting humanity.

Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.

It's hard to get recognition when your team is losing.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

toward the counter. She had been aware

They thought it was an enemy but it was only their own reflection.

The Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors offered him a six-figure sum in recognition of his pioneering wartime inventions. Jefferis was gratified but turned it down. 'His Edwardian principals of right and wrong were very strong,' said his son John.16 He did not believe he should profit from having helped to defeat Hitler.

If you do not value yourself independently of your achievements, you will not value your achievements.

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness." —Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

Those who receive the blessing are those who see beyond its disguise.

In his head he felt the confused whirling of images seeking a name. Words, sounds, surged up inside him, clean and clear, and settled on everything around him. He named, and saw what he named recognize itself.

What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity.

Ci sono cose, pensò, che i nostri occhi guardano senza vedere, ma il subconscio le vede e le nota. Il subcosciente ha l'occhio della macchina fotografica e non gli sfugge niente. Tanto è vero che, alle volte, dopo un sacco di tempo ci ricordiamo di aver visto un particolare che non sapevamo di aver visto.

It is our birthright to live and acknowledge our specialness, our uniqueness, our contribution to life, not because we need others to recognise it, but simply because it is real.

Let the paths from every direction recognize each other.

She knew him. Somehow. And wasn't that quite marvelous?

He'd seen her not really recognising him, not really, when it came down to it, caring who he was. It was disgusting, that pain could do that. What was the point of it, except to shame and disgust everyone? To make a mockery of love? If that was God then fuck God, whether there was a reason for it or not. If there was a reason then fuck the reason. No kind of reason he was interested in any more.

It's why people in sexual extremis say Oh, God . It's not a cry to the Divine, it's a recognition of their own divinity.

My wife's eyes sought mine for the old recognition, but found there a difference that would have been less nightmarish had it been less slight.