Quotes About Recognition

No one has a moral or legal obligation to credit me for my cleverness or praise my good efforts on their behalf.

The policeman recognized me, but I suppose that's only natural. Silk was going to kill him, but I said no." "Why?" Beldin asked bluntly. "We were in the middle of a busy street for one thing. Killing somebody's the sort of thing you ought to do in private, wouldn't you say?

No hay límite en lo que un hombre puede alcanzar en la medida que no le importe quién asuma el crédito." BOB WOODRUFF, COCA-COLA

I'm so scared of dying without ever being really seen. Can you understand?

Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality—there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the truth—actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.

Clichés earned their status as clichés because they're so obviously true

T]he worst kind of nihilist—the kind who isn't even aware he's a nihilist.

You don't have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness … has to do with angst about death, the recognition that I'm going to die, and die very much alone, and the rest of the world is going to go merrily on without me.

other people can often see things about you that you yourself cannot see, even if those people are stupid.

Cornell University Press announced plans for a festschrift.

Here is the truth - actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested. - David Foster Wallace, from The Pale King

As everyone is well aware, it is so difficult to do something nice for someone and not want them, desperately, to know that the identity of the individual who did it for them was you, and to feel grateful and approving towards you, and to tell myriads of other people what you 'did' for them, so that you can be widely acknowledged as a 'good' person.

You just never quite occurred out there, kid,' deLint apprises him.

One of the great Greek contributions to the very concept of mathematics was the conscious recognition and emphasis of the fact that mathematical entities are abstractions, ideas entertained by the mind and sharply distinguished from physical objects or pictures.

As everyone is well aware, ti is so difficult to do something nice for someone and not want them, desperately, to know that the identity of the individual who did it for them was you, and to feel grateful and approving towards you, and to tell myriads of other people what you 'did' for them, so that you can be widely acknowledged as a 'good' person.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

This thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine.

I will make thee think thy swan a crow.

O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours with Time's deformed hand Have written strange defeatures in my face. But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?

I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.

William Shakespeare

Whats in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet

Do you know me, my lord?' Excellent well. You are a fishmonger.

Villain I am none. Therefore farewell. I see thou knowest me not.