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Quotes About Recognition

who is invisible enough to see you
~ Paul Celan
We wouldn't worry nearly as much about what others thought of us if we recognize how seldom they do.
~ Unknown
In the words of human rights scholar Max Stackhouse, "Intellectual honesty demands recognition of the fact that what passes as 'secular,' 'Western' principles of basic human rights developed nowhere else than out of key strands of the biblically-rooted religion."9
~ Paul Copan
This simple smile is the easiest expression to recognize. We found such smiles can be seen from further away (300 feet) and with a briefer exposure than other emotional expressions.
~ Paul Ekman
You can have the greatest job skills in the world, but if no one knows you have them or can't find you to offer you a job, then those skills go to waste. Just
~ Unknown
Ronald Reagan, from his governorship to his presidency, kept a sign on his desk that read, "There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
~ Paul Kengor
If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian.
~ Paul McCartney
I want to know the age. The sex. Most of all, the fingerprints. I'd like to identify who it is. After he had agreed, and I had left the office, walking to calm myself, I thought: And who am I? Please tell me who I am and what I'm doing.
~ Paul Theroux
He caught my eye, saw me staring, and waved in a neighborly way, from his own country.
~ Paul Theroux
the obstacles to becoming noticed or published
~ Paul Theroux
Who pities those who wait? They are easily recognized: by their gentleness, by their falsely attentive looks—attentive, yes, but to something other than what they are looking at—by their absentmindedness.
~ Pauline Réage
Quién se apiada del que espera? Se le reconoce fácilmente: por su mansedumbre, por su mirada atenta, pero, con una atención falsa, atentos a otra cosa que lo que están mirando: a la ausencia.
~ Pauline Réage
Ever since time began, people have recognized their true Love by the light in their eyes.
~ Paulo Coelho
A man's dignity isn't measured by the people he has around him when he's at the peak of his success, but by his ability not to forget those who helped him when his need was greatest.
~ Paulo Coelho
You could tell your soul mate by the light in their eyes, and since the time began, that has been how people have recognized their true love.
~ Paulo Coelho
I could have.What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have heppened but, didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.
~ Paulo Coelho
And the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us.
~ Paulo Coelho
I want to be someone capable of seeing the unseen faces, of seeing those who do not seek fame or glory, who silently fulfil the role life has given them. I want to be able to do this because the most important things, those that shape our existence, are precisely the ones that never show their faces.
~ Paulo Coelho
I only invoked what you already knew.
~ Paulo Coelho
At some point, we have each said through our tears, "I'm suffering for a love that's not worth it." We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules. But ultimately there is no good reason for our suffering, for in every love lies the seed of our growth.
~ Paulo Coelho
You're mistaken, Father. You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness.
~ Paulo Coelho
If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then your defying 'the law' and deserve to be punished.
~ Paulo Coelho
At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have happened but didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.
~ Paulo Coelho
Beauty is present in all creation, but the danger lies in the fact that we allow ourselves to be influenced by what people think. We deny our own beauty because others can't or won't recognize it. We try to imitate what we see around us. We try to be what other people think of as 'pretty' & little by little, our soul fades. We forget the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.
~ Paulo Coelho