Quotes About Recognition

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.

Union leaders essentially want the public to believe that all teachers are equal and deserve to be paid and treated that way—but that's clearly not the case. Some teachers are much more effective than others in helping kids learn, yet school policies and pay scales do little to recognize or reward their efforts.

I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking.

The journey toward developing healthy self-esteem, starts with the recognition that people are born with unconditional human worth that is independent of the way people treat us.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.

A writer's greatest reward is naming something unnamed that many people are feeling. A writer's greatest punishment is being misunderstood. The same words can do both.

and other women of color, the result might well have been even more dramatic. After all, if you've experienced discrimination in one form, you're more likely to recognize it in another. Also racism and sexism are intertwined—as Mrs. Greene and millions of others experienced—and cannot be uprooted separately.

Change seems recognizable only after it's happened, like putting one's foot down for a familiar stair—and it's not there.

Among their first questions was said to be: Where are the women?

Gender is the remaining caste system that still cuts deep enough, and spreads wide enough, to be confused with the laws of nature. To uncover the difference between what is and what could be, we may need the "Aha!" that comes from exchanging subject for object, the flash of recognition that starts with a smile, the moment of changed viewpoint that turns the world upside down.

This was a small taste of a general problem: the invisibility in the media of the many women of color who pioneered the women's movement.

she is still better known than most living movie stars, most world leaders, and most television personalities. The surprise is that she rarely has been taken seriously enough to ask why that is so.

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, and you think it's a pig, it's a pig.

if you've experienced discrimination in one form, you're more likely to recognize it in another. Also

Women are always saying, 'We can do anything that men can do.' But men should be saying, 'We can do anything that women can do.

Six years after that, I went to the White House with Wilma and watched as President Clinton and Hillary Clinton presented her with a Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor. As she stood there, strong, kind, and not at all intimidated by another chief of state, I was not the only one in the audience who thought, She could be president. I also thought, In a just country, she would be.

if you've experience discrimination in one form, you're more likely to recognise it in another.

The craving to be famous is like an insidious disease, no matter how well known you become it's never enough, it never satisfies.

He who does not think too much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

Gratitude is the beginning of civility, of decency and goodness, of a recognition that we cannot afford to be arrogant. We should walk with the knowledge that we will need help every step of the way.

That save from Pele's header was the best I ever made. I didn't have any idea how famous it would become - to start with, I didn't even realise I'd made it at all.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored," said Aldous Huxley.