Quotes About Recognition

Look down at me and you see a fool; look up at me and you see a god; look straight at me and you see yourself

Child, you listen to me, and you look me straight in the eyes when I'm talking to you. I may be just old hired help, and a country woman to boot, but I'm a human. And you know what? God thought of me. He actually took the time to dream me up. I may not be much to look at, but what you see first started in the mind of God, so don't stand there and ignore me like I don't exist. You remember that." Miss

All hearts have but one request. One simple, unspoken, undeniable need... To be known.

If that summer taught me anything, it was this: girls need their father. Period. And I couldn't really tell you why other than it's the father who tells them who they are. Until he does, they're just floating in the earth like that tooth. Buried in some trash mound. Waiting to be discovered by somebody with a shovel who won't crack it or crush it. Last

To have a thing is little, if you're not allowed to show it, to know a thing, is nothing unless others know you know it.

We only value ourselves as others value us, for it might be said that we hold ourselves in trust for others.

Being a facetious person I got no credit for any depth of feeling.

You should of got a medal." "You don't get medals for things like that. Unless you're a officer. They give 'em to each other.

thing. I had the greatest respect for

Pain-Avoiding Psychological Denial One should recognize reality even when one doesn't like it.

What all of what was then to be understood to be being presumed so makes something now recognizable as to what we were, in fact, then speaking of in speaking of 'whales'.

I once interviewed Robert Solow, winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Economics and a noted baseball enthusiast. I asked if it bothered him that he received less money for winning the Nobel Prize than Roger Clemens, who was pitching for the Red Sox at the time, earned in a single season. "No," Solow said. "There are a lot of good economists, but there is only one Roger Clemens." That is how economists think.

Even now, as Special Guest Star, even here, in your own neighborhood. Two words that define you, flatten you, trap you and keep you here. Who you are. All you are. Your most salient feature, overshadowing any other feature about you, making irrelevant any other characteristic. Both necessary and sufficient for a complete definition of your identity:

Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.

I am known in parts of the world by people who have never heard of Jesus Christ.

You have to recognize opportunity, no matter how subtle the knock. Everything doesn't happen at once. One thing leads to another as the building blocks of your life start to take form.

It was to be another one of those moments when just a few words will change your whole life. She said, "You have been invited to join the Grand Ole Opry!" Did I hear her right? Did she really say what I thought she said? At the age of seventy-one, was I really going to realize one of my longest-held and fondest dreams?

You have to recognize opportunity, no matter how subtle the knock. Everything doesn't happen at once. One thing leads to another as the building blocks of your life start to take form. This was one of those times, and I just knew it.

She finally realized where they were. 'This is Legoland!

I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.

They used to but not any more. You kind of get used to it - you accept it is part of your job - if you're famous and you want this life, you have got to accept this part of it as well.

He never seemed to recognize the quiet background of superiority. When she dropped an argument he always thought he had silenced her; when she laughed he thought it tribute to his wit.

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.

All the gentlemen accorded her the courtesy of standing when she entered the chamber. One second of recognition, then her gender would be completely forgotten when the discussions began. ~ From The Earl, the Vow, and the Plain Jane by Cheryl Bolen