Quotes About Recognition

Why should his sexual preference preclude his being voted into Hall of Fame? You don't know much about baseball, do you, doc?

Don't get me started on the little airplane name badges, Natalie grumbled.

You're…normal." "That's the first time anyone's called me that in my life

leaders' work as teachers often starts with their recognition of an important capacity that is lacking in an organization.

Half-familiar sounds could be dimly recognized as words through the swirls and eddies of Provençal: demain became demang, vin became vang, maison became mesong.

It struck me that his innate elegance, the product of his character & bearing much more than of the handsome suit and the suede shoes, had been paid for by the surviving of a thousand unimaginable difficulties, each painful to a varying degree. Then I realized that what I meant by elegance was really dignity, that for the first time I had recognized actual dignity in another human being, and that dignity was nothing like the self-congratulatory superiority people usually mistook for it.

It's a good thing you write fiction. If you had to describe the real world, nobody would recognize it.

The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him right to the last twist of necktie and scrape of chin, always gets noticed. Gets selected. Rises.

You put on a bishop's robe and miter, he pondered, and walk around in that, and people bow and genuflect and like that, and try to kiss your ring, if not your ass, and pretty soon you're a bishop. So to speak. What is identity? he asked himself. Where does the act end? Nobody knows.

The tyranny of an object, he thought. It doesn't know I exist.

When cab drivers recognize me, he decided, it's probably not in my mind. But when the heavens open and God speaks to me by name . . . that's when the psychosis takes over. It would be hard to distinguish.

chciaÅ'bym, aby awansowaÅ' pan do wy?szej klasy, klasy posiadaczy kóz, do której - jestem tego pewien - powinien pan nale?e?. Szczerze mówiÄ…c, sprawia pan wra?enie posiadacza kozy.

La forma en la que no te miran es casi japonesa.

He was liked when noticed, but not noticed much, and that did him no harm either.

For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.

Ik wist niet eens dat u Alice heette. - Lyra

found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there was much more wisdom that I failed to recognize. Life is hard, Mr. Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same.

He stopped what he was doing, and looked at her as if for the first time. His daemon turned her great tawny leopard eyes on her too, and under the concentrated gaze of both of them, Lyra blushed. But she gazed back fiercely.

Everyone becomes a part of history whether they like it or not and whether they know it or not.

You're our Marcel Proust, Mr. Zuckerman. Zuckerman laughed. It wasn't exactly how he saw it.

Waarom zou ik behoefte hebben aan een monument in mijn naam terwijl er op straat zo'n feestbanket rondloopt?

Then, if you have good luck and people seem to like what you do, and you actually get to get paid for it, and get to see your stuff professionally typeset and bound and blurbed and reviewed and even (once) being read on the AM subway by a pretty girl you don't even know, it seems to make it even more fun. For a while.

S'il n'y avait pas de combat parce que le commandant local avait réussi à pacifier sa région, tant pis pour lui – pas de médaille. Il

The prospect of death in autumn, she said, was irrelevant next to its happy recognition of its participation in the life of the tree itself.