Quotes About Recognition

Hard work does not go unnoticed, and someday the rewards will follow.

Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.

I try to pace myself and not work for the sake of working and stick to what inspired me prior to receiving recognition.

If reviewers don't mention your work, it's probably better than if they do.

Well I'd really love to work with Robert De Niro, because he's still the most talented actor out there.

I've had a very good career and I'm grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.

People want to be successful, and they want to be acknowledged for what they do. Sometimes they make really great art and aren't. Historically, the best artists weren't. But their work survived.

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

Unpaid work never commands respect.

I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.

I get recognised sometimes, and that's really cool. I've tried certain disguises, but that doesn't work.

A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.

Celebrity doesn't really affect the work. What affects the work is the expectations from the outside. This is what no one understands.

I've made films that I've given all I had to, that no one has seen. The bottom line is I want to work and I want someone to enjoy it.

I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.

We are surrounded every day by people who do thankless but important work.

Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how trivial their job.

I was on a Japanese designers' pedestal - considered a maestro. My design was getting closer to a couturier's work, and I felt like I was missing something.

The simple act of recognizing diversity in corporate life helps us to connect the great variety of gifts that people bring to the work and service of the corporation.

There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!

You always want your work to be seen as long as it's good.

It took me years and years of trial efforts to work out that there is absolutely no knitting triumph I can achieve that my husband will think is worth being woken up for.

I was always in disguise. I'd wear masks or weird get-ups so you couldn't recognize me. I was always afraid that if somebody caught on that it was me, I'd never work again.

It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.