Quotes About Recognition

From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you're alive - or praising you after you ain't.

What we call chaos is just pat­terns we haven't rec­og­nized. What we call ran­dom is just pat­terns we can't de­ci­pher. What we can't un­der­stand we call non­sense. What we can't read we call gib­ber­ish.

You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching.

Anonymity is the new fame.

Give me attention. Flash. Give me adoration. Flash. Give me a break. Flash

Screw the idea of inventing monsters. Here, we just had to look around. Pay attention.

To both my parents, the world is a battle for attention, a war to be heard.

We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

The same as if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, you realize, if no one had been there to witness the agony of Christ, would we be saved? The key to salvation is how much attention you get. How high a profile you get. Your audience share. Your exposure. Your name recognition. Your press following. The buzz.

If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you.

There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.

Based on decades of observation, I propose that sudden high levels of praise always trigger an equal amount of inner self-loathing.

Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed.

Everyone wants to feel special - attain a special status among their pears- but not too special. Most kids want to be special the same way their friends are

They'd told him he had talent. That word was heroin to the young. Talent

You re­al­ize that there's no point in do­ing any­thing if no­body's watch­ing.

Give me a voice. Flash. Give me a face.

For hate is a form of passionate attachment, and to be despised seems better than to be unknown.

No man has to be a rocket surgeon to recognize love.

The same as if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, you realize, if no one had been there to witness the agony of Christ, would we be saved? The key to salvation is how much attention you get. How high a profile you get. Your audience share. Your exposure. Your name recognition. Your press following.

People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves.

Since school, he'd come to expect so little from life. Nothing special, just to be treated with courtesy and politeness by the world. Wanted people to see him and not fear him, not admire him but just to see him. He wanted to be recognized so people would think twice before badgering or insulting him.

Ich hatte die ganze Zeit gedacht, die beiden ziehen über meinen Großvater her, aber dann wurde mir klar, die meinten mich. Das heißt, natürlich meinten sie irgendeinen verrückten Killer, aber das war immer noch ich, die ich da in Häschenpantoffeln und Pelzmantel saß.