Quotes About Recognition

The classic trilogy—sex, power, money—requires a great deal of determination, a great deal of energy from its adepts. You have to be ready to suffer until the time comes when you have become desensitized. If this force becomes conscious of itself, of its real and deep desire, it will realize that these three passions are only masks, merely distorted translations of a deeper need, the need to be loved and recognized.

Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to the people of your culture, you'll never stop being conscious of it. Wherever you go for the rest of your life, you'll be tempted to say to the people around you, 'How can you listen to this stuff and not recognize it for what it is?

I think," I say after a while, waiting for the right words to come, "that if a man could be said to be loved by his son, then I think that man could be considered great." For this is the only power I have, to bestow upon my father the mantle of greatness, a thing he sought in the wider world, but one that, in a surprise turn of events, was here at home all along.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by then I was too famous.

"Make a Friday a day to celebrate work well done that you can be proud of knowing that you just didn't put in time to the next paycheck."

How do you keep seeing through all of my disguises?

It's funny how nobody notices all the good things you do until you don't do them.

It was fun being famous on my birthday.

"When a man blames others for his failures, it's a good idea to credit others with his successes."

My esteem in this country has gone up substantially. It is very nice now that when people wave at me, they use all their fingers.

"The penalty of success is to be bored by the attention of people who formerly snubbed you."

I was out with my mum when a man started screaming at me: 'Georgia Groome. I love you.' Mum and I just looked at each other for a split second – and then ran away as fast as we could.

Everything has its beauty, but not everyone see its.

I spent my days waiting for you, searching the crowds for your face. I stopped breathing the moment you recognized me, as you captured my soul with your gaze.

To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgement, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.

Too many people what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Applause waits on success.

You don't have to show people how successful you are.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

I want to win trophies in the summer and not accolades in the winter.

I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks…

Empathy is cloaked in our actions - as in, we might be experiencing empathy but not realize it's empathy.

After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.

At my age, I'm just happy to be named the greatest living anything.