Quotes About Recognition

As for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and invisible to the outside eye. It was rather entirely external, coming from the minds of others. It existed in the way people looked at him or behaved towards him. In that, being famous was no different from being gay, or Jewish, or from a visible minority: you are who you are, and then people project onto you some notion they have.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

Human beings pay very little attention to what is told them unless they know something about it already.

It was at moments such as these that Joseph recognized the face of God in human form. It glimmered in their kindness to him, it glowed in their keenness, it hinted in their caring, indeed it caressed in their gaze.

Todos necesitamos espejos para recordarnos a nosotros mismos quienes somos. Yo no soy diferente - Memento

It's not just about filming, you go to awards and interviews too. I enjoy all of it, even learning my lines!

You know, there's something especially lonely about a gold medal hanging all by itself on a bedroom wall, something that says "fluke," or "beginner's luck," or "one in a million," but two gold medals, now that says something completely different. That says, "Oh, yeah, baby, this is the real deal!

Putnam argued that the concept of psychological bravery has not been properly recognized in ethics and asserted that the psychological bravery involved in facing fears generated by our own habits is essential to well-being.

It doesn't matter. You are what you are. I am what I am. We are the same-when you take the time to remember me.

Reputations are created every day and every minute.

only two individuals in the world whose mere announced arrival guaranteed pandemonium on the streets: the Pope and Mick Jagger.

My hair was famous before I was.

I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

The first step in overcoming any serious problem is acknowledging that there is a problem.

Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that.

People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

Opportunity comes often, but is only recognised once.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves even in those books which they write in contempt of glory inscribe their names.

It had been weeks since anyone had even tried to kill him. As long as someone was trying to kill you, you knew you were important.