Quotes About Recognition

If I'm not on the floor, I'm not valued.

I still want to play where I'm valued.

It's so embarrassing to just not feel valued as a creative person.

It's one thing to think that your job has a purpose, and it's another to meet a specific person who cares, appreciates, and values what you do," Grant told me. "The call center people got a new sense of their worth—not only on the job but as individuals.

Al and Tipper were at their front door waiting for me with a bottle of Cristal; the very day before, he had won the Nobel Peace Prize. They had been up late celebrating with Sheryl Crow and the gang. There were hugs, kisses, and high fives.

You don't have to like a man to respect him.

When the first reedy snore escaped the Mad Prophet's lips, Asandir's forbidding manner softened. His fingers smoothed black hair from a profile all too familiar, and his smile widened with amusement. 'So, our Prophet thinks you a servant, does he?

My best-case scenario for the future is that China's government will recognize that its environmental problems pose an even graver threat that did its problem of population growth. It may then conclude that China's interests require environmental policies as bold, and as effectively carried out, as its family planning policies.

1. Acknowledgment that one is in crisis.

Allende had good ideas, but he executed them poorly. Although he correctly recognized Chile's problems, he adopted wrong solutions to those problems.

The "crisis" is a sudden realization of, or a sudden acting on, pressures that have been building up for a long time. This truth was acknowledged explicitly by Australia's Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, who (as we'll see in Chapter 7) devised a whirlwind program of apparently major changes in 19 days of December 1972, but who downplayed his own reforms as a "recognition of what has already happened.

Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.

The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.

a standing ovation from five-year-olds is not to be sniffed at.

The leader was identified by his dental records—why he had them on him, no one was quite sure.

The name's Schitt," he replied. "Jack Schitt.

You're very patronizing," I pointed out. "Very clever of you to notice, girlie. Have

a curious sense of uncomfortable familiarity, the feeling you might get when a long-forgotten school bully hails you as an old friend.

Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit

Yet I had invested nothing up front. It was just a matter of recognizing that one person's distress is another person's opportunity.   When

no matter how brilliant their site, it's invisible and powerless unless people know it's there.

You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.

I think balance is always the problem. I doubt that anyone ever gets it perfectly right. The trick is to recognize when things are tilting too far in the wrong direction and make course corrections.

He wondered if he would ever get to the point where he would take such concern on his behalf for granted. He doubted it. When you had spent most of your life looking for something, you weren't likely to treat it casually when you finally stumbled into it.