Quotes About Recognition

A man will work and slave in obscurity for ten years and then become famous in ten minutes.

The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don't see how our conflicts of interest work on us.

Unpaid work never commands respect; it is the paid worker who has brought to the public mind conviction of woman's worth.

For a woman to get half as much credit as a man, she has to work twice as hard, and be twice as smart. Fortunately, that isn't difficult.

For workaholics, all the eggs of self-esteem are in the basket of work.

Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.

In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.

As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.

I knew de Kooning and I went to his studio so I knew about de Kooning's work. But only a little handful knew about it, you know. Maybe there were ten people that knew about it.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.

All people interested in their work are liable to overrate their vocation. There may be makers of dolls' eyes who wonder how society would go on without them.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

With any other celebrity, people come up and say, 'Hey, I really like your work.' But with my fans, when they see me, they don't even say hello. They just go, 'AWWWWWGHGHHHGHGHRRR!'

Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.

Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.

When people come up to me and say 'I hate you' or 'I love to hate you,' it's not the usual response that I thought I would've gotten halfway into my career. And then they say, 'I love your work.'

I just wanna give a big shout out to all the fans out there who have followed my work up until now. You guys are amazing!! Hearing from fans is the best feeling in the world.

I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.

To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

I've been busy for a long, long time. I've received a ton of awards in the past few years ... I think they're really great, it's really an honor, but s**t - I really have to work for these things.