Quotes About Recognition

Sights, smells, temperature changes—all sorts of stuff. We notice it without consciously thinking about it. He says we may not be paying attention, but our brains are recording and processing it all the same, and these… these observations, or whatever you want to call them, make up a pattern. So if you're good with patterns, the way Mr. Benedict says I am, you can sometimes predict things.

She announced her age right away, for children consider their ages every bit as important as their names.

68 Gold Medallion awards for its books, more than any other publisher.

When you're a mother, nobody's saying, 'You're doing a really good job; you're so great; what initiative, mopping up that vomit!

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

What we heard all the time is that you were not working. That's what was said, that that degree of yours was just a piece of paper sitting, silently rotting.

We fail to see that recognizing, admitting, and clearly understanding the patterns we experience in our own lives can have a transformative effect on the way we function in the world and the way we relate to others.

You're not nothing.

So You Want to Be Famous

Clay! clamored several voices at once in Moon's head. It's him, it's really him! Oooo, he's even cuter in real life. Oooo, look at his heroic limp. Oooo, I think he looked at me!

I don't know your name." "Kindle," she said.

Where had he heard that before?

Dusky, so how did she not exist at all for this human? It was like being invisible, but a different kind of

Right, she remembered. They don't know yet that I'm Important. They don't realize that soon everyone will know my name, or that I can save them from so many horrible things.

There is no other way to reach enlightenment than by recognizing buddha nature and attaining stability in it. Buddhas of the past did that, and the present-day practitioners who will be the buddhas of the future will do so by recognizing their own nature and attaining stability in it. There is no other way. Nobody else can accomplish enlightenment for us or pull us into liberation. It is completely up to ourselves.

the kusulu, the simple meditator. "For this type of person, the main point of the Buddha's teaching involves nothing more than understanding the difference between recognizing and not recognizing mind-essence. Not recognizing is samsara, while recognizing is nirvana or liberation.

when leaders fail to tell employees that they're doing a great job, they might as well be taking money out of their pockets and throwing it into a fire

All too often in life, we see people do what we want them to do and we say nothing, assuming that the behavior has become natural for them, an easy standard.

tendency of team members to seek out individual recognition and attention at the expense of results

Oh, what is that bird?' 'It is a wheatear. We have seen between two and three hundred since we set out, and I have told you their name twice, nay, three times.

Identity?' said Jack, comfortably pouring out more coffee. 'Is not identity something you are born with?' 'The identity I am thinking of is something that hovers between a man and the rest of the world: a mid-point between his view of himself and theirs of him – for each, of course, affects the other continually.

Van Dongen was still there, with his Dutch wife and their little daughter, for whom Picasso made a sinister doll out of a black stocking; but van Dongen's days of extreme poverty, his diet of spinach alone, were almost at an end, for he had painted a fine erotic nude of Fernande (though its origin was never acknowledged)

How you perceive yourself is how others will see you.

On the next day, seeing Jesus again John the Baptist testified once again, "Behold