Quotes About Recognition

This thing that I created, this thing I made as a woman, for other women, is worth something. It's worth exactly the same as what a similar thing, built by a man, for men, is worth.

When you get everything you wanted, I think maybe you do have to be a little grateful for the people who got you there.. whether or not they thought they were doing you any favors at the time.

Wenn man verstehen will, was einer meint oder sagt, muss man im Grunde das, was er meint oder sagt, immer schon wissen. Ist dann ein gelungener Dialog nur Wiedererkennen? Und das Verstehen nicht etwas ein Weg, sondern vielmehr ein Zustand?

Ser pobre é detalhe sem importância. Ser conhecido por ser pobre é que dói.

We're sort of like the town whore that's finally become an institution. We're finally becoming respectable.

You haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people.

Who are you?' I didn't understand the question. I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?' I gave him my name. 'Stopthief.

Inside his house, a kid gets one name, but on the other side of the door, it's whatever the rest of the world wants to call him.

He was the Grand Marshall of our Everyday Parade

I wish I was back in the sixth grade. I was important there. I'm nothing here. I'm a turd.

Mr. Kosinski won the National Book Award for Steps

But Gloria kept her eyes trained on me, kept gripping my face. "You'll recognize those men, the ones inclined to their dark side, because they'll expect you to carry their load. They'll smother your anger with their pain, they'll make you doubt yourself, and they'll tell you they love you the whole time. Some do it big, like Ed, but most do it in quiet steps, like your father.

Heather Cawl and I hadn't acknowledged

Rodolphe manages to protect her from those who would ruin her, and eventually she is redeemed and sent to a convent, where her innate goodness is instantly recognized and she is made an abbess. (She dies from the honor).

The whole world is sick...we've all got this pathetic need to be seen. We're a bunch of fucking toddlers trying to get attention.

Divination of true nature. Of motivation. Of desirous hearts. I saw the whole world in a flash and I recognized it at once: We want what we want.

Casa», prosegue Chris, «era un posto terrificante una volta, ma ora non lo è più. Ed è merito tuo, Blythe. Sei stata tu a cambiare ogni cosa per me, per tutti noi. Non me lo dimentico mai, neanche per un attimo.»

What does it take for a person to be able to recognize evil as it unfolds? To see with foresight and acuity .

Like Udayan, Bela is nowhere. Her name in the search engine leads to nothing... It doesn't mean anything, necessarily. Only that Bela doesn't exist in the dimension where Gauri might learn something about her. Only that she refuses Gauri that access.

And for the first time in his life, another man's name upset Gogol more than his own.

We do an epically bad job of acknowledging one another's work and checking our sources.

It's my experience that very few writers, young or old, are really seeking advice when they give out their work to be read. They want support; they want someone to say, "Good job."

It's always good to work where you're wanted. The times I've been where I wasn't wanted - that's just never a good experience.

I don't think I'm craving any more fame. But success and being recognized for making great work all around the world, I think it's a great thing.