Quotes About Recognition

Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work

The group will not prosper if the leader grabs the lion's share of the credit for the good work that has been done.

To put a lot of hard work and effort into a project or character and for it to be recognised, how can it not be nice?

We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.

When you're famous you can't go to Topshop. Even when I disguise myself in a moustache, baseball cap, sunglasses - the full Madonna kit - it doesn't work: my stupid face is too big.

Having lots of people talking highly of you and respecting your art and your work, this is one of the best feelings that you can have.

Enlightenment, the old teachers say, adds nothing, except maybe the recognition of a need for and a commitment to the work that still needs to be done.

The more you worry about being applauded by others and making money, the less you'll focus on doing the great work that will generate applause. And make you money.

The fastest way to disengage an employee is to tell him his work is meaningful only because of the paycheck.

If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some long-term value.

Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.

Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.

Yes, I am complimented on my work in Kids in the Hall once or twice a week. Its a nice feeling.

I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.

I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it's worth millions.

You realise the responsibility of carrying a film on your shoulders when people are investing money in you and they recognise the hard work you have to put in.

The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.

Research indicates that workers have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.

It's amazing how important your job is when you want the day off - and how unimportant it is when you want a raise.

It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.

I am suggesting to you the simple idea that people work harder and smarter if they find their work satisfying and know that it is appreciated.

I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.

You know, I've kind of been lucky enough to always work with established actors or big names or people that are really popular or infamous for doing what they do and doing it well, I guess.

My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.