Quotes About Recognition

It's unfair how the kids who are starving for attention tended to be so annoying that people had no inclination to give it to them.

If she did see, I hoped she' be amazed. Amazed and thankful, because without even asking, she'd received a genuine autograph from a genuine girl from Atlanta. Not just any girl, but a girl who was, frankly, a pretty big deal. A girl who was me.

Henrietta Swanson: "She was voted young lady most likely to become charming." Sheriff Taylor: "Well, say now. Becoming charming - that is something to look forward to, ain't it.

yeah. his name was Bill,

Okay, she's tough, but if Miranda were a man…no one would notice anything about her, except how great she is at her job

Vasco da Gama came to believe that he had been inadequately rewarded for his service to the crown.

longer was he Fernão de Magalhães; in Spain, he became known as Hernando de Magallanes.

The officers had their own cabins, cramped, to be sure, but a mark of distinction

Her Majesty dined on board, and after dinner conferred the honour of knighthood on the captain.

Elizabeth, and especially Francis Drake, whom Mendoza recognized as the chief threat to Spain's imperial ambitions.

Though hardly a revolutionary insight, the comment set Pigafetta apart from sages such as Pliny and Marco Polo

We need to embrace our anger. By that I mean, we want to recognize the sacredness of anger. Many deities from all around the world depict 'anger' in a sacred way. Kali, The Morrigan, Hades, Set, Mars, Minerva, Lugh, Thor, Vulcan, Odin, and Fion Mac Cumhail are all deities that express a divine kind of anger. They are the avengers, hunters, protectors, and warriors; Gods and Goddesses of death and slaughter.

The Shadow side of religion must be recognized and dealt with propitiously.

To deal with reality you must first recognize it as such.

Psychologists have observed that one of the most basic human needs, beginning at birth, is to be gazed upon by another. Mothers throughout the world have been observed spending long periods staring into the eyes of their babies with a characteristic tilt of the head. To be seen is to be real, and without another to gaze upon us, we are nothing. Part of the terror of being lost stems from the idea of never being seen again.)

For example, when children do not get the connection they need, they grow up both seeking and fearing connection. When children do not get their needs met, they do not learn to recognize what they need, are unable to express their needs, and often feel undeserving of having their needs met.

Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

I think I'll always be famous. I just hope I don't become infamous.

She recognized it at once: love, one-way deep adoration that bounced off and did not bounce back; careful, quiet love that didn't care and went on anyway.

wasn't until he heard the horror in the teacher's voice—"Shirley Byron!"—that he realized he was supposed to be embarrassed; the next time it happened, he had learned his lesson and turned red right away. In

No sign of her anywhere here. Signs of her everywhere here.

called you by name so insistently unless they

Proof, she told herself, that I'm just as smart as the others. That I belong.