Quotes About Recognition

When you no longer have an enemy you find it in the mirror.

When I got the Nobel Prize I said to myself that it had made me neither smarter nor more stupid.

No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

There's nothing nicer than unexpected appreciation. If you're grateful, get a pen.

I think there is in friendship, an instant recognition – a kind of loving. It needs just a word, in passing, the touch of a hand – yet parting is loss and the tiny ache of regret stays with us always.

those who had been obliged to be silent for nearly forty years were once again being told that there could be no public recognition of their past lives or memories.

there are some striking similarities with the post-Soviet experience where a heterogeneously configured and relatively marginal civic memory movement also struggles against a state that neither properly recognizes, still less commemorates the unlawfully murdered.3

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

It is not as though she's greedy for happiness, but she wishes that she'd been able to recognize it completely when she had it.

I always knew He was there, but I didn't know His name.

remember the name of the firm which he owned. She

cities are fueled by the listless agony of workers providing services to other workers who barely acknowledge those services.

You feel you've seen a hundred of me. You know how my tiny mind works. But maybe it goes both ways.

I'd have liked for him to say my name again, though. You know how it is when someone says your name really well, like it means something that makes the world a better place.

Hers were gloriously improbable tales, stuffed with happy coincidences, eternal devotion, and the unwavering recognition of inner beauty.

When she said that we'd say "thanks" and it might have sounded as if we were thanking her for seeing us that way but actually we were thanking her for giving us whatever goodness was in us.

I was on my out and they thought they were helping me; instead they turned motion and intellible speech into a currency with which personhood is earned.

have liked for him to say my name again, though. You know how it is when someone says your name really well, like it means something that makes the world a better place. In Louis Chen's case, he sometimes says my name as if it were a lesser-known word for bacon.

I think they must have recognized something in each other, some poorly concealed intensity that other people find nerve-racking.

Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around.

we will see in others, as the Course puts it, a "beauty that will enchant you, and will never cease to cause you wonderment at its perfection."10 And the beauty we see in them we will then recognize in ourselves.

Miracles reawaken the awareness that the spirit, not the body, is the altar of truth. This is the recognition that leads to the healing power of the miracle.