Quotes About Recognition

I never forget a face, but in your case, I'll be glad to make an exception.

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.

we are all guilty of oversimplification at one point or another. It's an enticing idea. It fulfills our need for instant gratification. We find one thing and scream, "Eureka!" We found IT—the one thing that explains it all. The only trouble is that it never works. We are more likely to squeeze gold from our coffee grinder than we are to meet with success when adopting an idea that has been simplified beyond recognition.

Et maintenant / Tu me ressembles tu me ressembles malheureusement

Certains disent qu'on reconnaît le grand amour lorsqu'on s'aperçoit que le seul être au monde qui pourrait vous consoler est justement celui qui vous a fait mal.

At the same time, he was humble enough to recognise that he wasn't sufficiently trained in certain areas, mostly defensive work.

anxiety to become good enough for Johan Cruyff to notice us cannot be put into words. Without that desire, none of us would be who we are today.

Tú sabes quién soy?», le pregunté mientras estaba a punto de llevarse un pedazo de pollo a la boca. Sonrió. «Claro, mi mujer», dijo sin más y volvió a la carga con el pollo.

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.

When he looks at me, the way he looks at me... He does not know, what I lack... Or - how - I am incomplete. He sees me, for what I - am, as I am. He's happy - to see me. Every time. Every day.

You deserve better than this. You deserve people who value you. You deserve to go somewhere where you can be proud of who you are.

One must always name a weapon. You cannot trust that which you cannot call by name.

The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognisable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called in question. Every general belief being little else than a fiction, it can only survive on the condition that it be not subjected to examination.

He had finally got money, he had taken off his moustache, he was driving a car that few could afford, he was a new man. But the world failed to recognise him as such.

I think,' said Ammar ibn Khairan of Aljais, very slowly, 'that I should know you in a pitch black room. I think I would know you anywhere near me in the world.' He paused. 'Is that answer enough, Jehane? Or too much of one? Will you say?

Remember that nobodies are the new somebodies.

In life there are two types of people: those who catch the waiter's eye and those who don't.

Another survey revealed that while nine out of ten primary school children could identify a Dalek, only a third could recognise and name a magpie.

He was a celebrity, in the tradition of Lord Byron and Beau Brummell, but more Brummell than Byron, more style than substance. "Evidently I am 'somebody,'" he noted at the time, "but what have I done? I've been 'noticed.' That is something, I suppose. And I have published one book of poems. That doesn't amount to much.

And it is characteristic of the devil to be recognized too late.

What is this moment called when we suddenly recognize what we have never seen? And which gives us a joy like a wound?

We are criminals and we do not know how to express or prove that we are criminals. The problem is that if, as criminals, we were recognized as such, we would have to pay for the crime. Yet if we paid, the crime would disappear and our debt would be wiped out. We must keep our crime in order to keep our crime safe, to avoid the terrible fate of being forgiven.

Young Mr. Conn Maxwell, who has just returned from Terra, needs no introduction to any of you," he began. Then, having established that, he took the next ten minutes to introduce Conn.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.