Quotes About Recognition

Vagyst?-geriausias komplimentas,kok? galima pasakyti daiktui.

When you read Turgenev, you know you are reading Turgenev. When you read Tolstoy, you read just because you cannot stop.

I find it inordinately hard to speak about my other brother. He is a mere shadow in the background of my richest and most detailed recollections. It is one of those lives that hopelessly claim a belated something--compassion, understanding, no matter what--which the mere recognition of such a want can neither replace nor redeem.

individuals seek recognition of their value, not as "labor," "personnel," or "human resources" but as human beings who are treated with full respect and dignity and appreciated for their individual worth regardless of hierarchical level.

But because they belong to Christ and have recognized Him as Lord and Master of their lives, their owner and manager, they are permeated by a deep, quiet, settled peace that is beautiful to behold.

It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.

Once people have that sense that their voice is being recognized, they then are more willing to move to consensus. Once people feel that their ideas are respected, I think that you will find a move toward cooperation. People are much more conciliatory once they feel they've been respected. That's the threshold we need to get to: the idea of respecting different viewpoints. (from the book The NPR Interviews 1995 edited by Robert Siegel)

Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

I may be an arrogant asshole with more blessing than I'll ever deserve, but that doesn't mean I don't have enough self-awareness to recognize something extraordinary. Especially when I'm looking right at it.

The broken parts of me recognise the fractures in him, even if he hasn't permitted me close enough to touch them yet.

God help her, she'd belonged to him from the instant he spotted her.

She narrowed her eyes and concentrated on his mouth. Name. He wanted her name. She had to think about it for a second before she remembered. Great. She must have hit her head. Which, duh, explained the headache.

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

To me, a winner is someone who recognizes their God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses those skills to accomplish his goals. Even when I lost, I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses into strengths.

The foundation of changing behavior is linking rewards to performance and making the linkages transparent.

Thus you have to rely on yourself to contain your own ego and recognize your inevitable blind spots. Be particularly cautious about losing your ability to listen. Not only do you need expertise from both within and outside the company to shore up your blind spots and weaknesses, but also a pipeline to people willing and able to bring you diverse views and bad news. Above all, you need to be able to recognize when you're part of the problem.

I've seen Jesus. He just looks like you and me. You could meet Him out on the street and you wouldn't know Him. I know why He ain't come back. The world would probably find some way to kill Him again.

Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.

As author Nick Murray says: "Success is purely a function of two things: 1) recognition of the inevitability of major market declines; and 2) emotional/behavioral preparation to regard such declines as non-events.

Since longtime members who switch services don't like to be asked if they're visiting (try it; you'll enjoy the dirty looks), most of us learn to treat anyone we don't recognize as a regular we haven't met or someone whose face we can't remember.

Caltech honored me -- they named an asteroid after me. There's only two of them up there with names. One of them is Walter Cronkite. The other is Tommy Lasorda.

It is the greatest possible praise to be praised by a man who is himself deserving of praise.

Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.

When we recognize that we don't have all the time in the world, we see our priorities most clearly.