Quotes About Recognition

He spends a lot of time telling you how smart he is, which is odd because, if you're truly all that bright, people can usually figure it out on their own.

Most of my ribbons were for good sportsmanship, a backhanded compliment if ever there was one.

My confessions did nothing to alter this situation, but for the first time in my life I felt that somebody actually knew me. Three somebodies, to be exact. Two were roaming the highway in a Cadillac, doing God knows what with a CB radio, but the other was as close to me as my own skin, and I could now feel the undiluted pleasure of her company.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

He has a point there, that's harsh. Unfortunately, they never gave him a medal for it and as a result he brings it up time and time again.

Who does this—goes to the shows of people they're supposed to be proud of and counts the empty seats?

I insist that Carol eat in my presence for the same reason I wait for the coffee shop employee to turn back in my direction before putting a tip in his basket. I want to be acknowledged as a generous provider. This is about me, not them.

People don't always go down in history for the vigor with which they perform their jobs. We remember Louis the Fifteenth . . . for his furniture; we remember Pierre Léotard, despite his being the greatest trapeze artist ever, for his leotard. The idea is to give your name to something, like the zeppelin, the newton, Morse code, the chicuelina .

No existe nada más que el éxito, el resto es invisibilidad.

Solace is what we must look for when the mind cannot bear the pain, the loss or the suffering that eventually touches every life and every endeavour; when longing does not come to fruition in a form we can recognize, when people we know and love disappear, when hope must take a different form than the one we have shaped for it.

While the focus of this book is on the conceptual lines everyday utopias can generate, it also offers an account of recognition in some of its many different forms, for the book treats recognition as a relationship that cannot be assumed. Indeed it is the pervasive failure on the left, and specifically among critical academics, to recognize the conceptual life and promise of everyday utopias within the wider pursuit of a transformative politics, which drives this book.

Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake deseption for it.

Everyone talks about justice, but there can be no justice where there is no truth, and these are times when truth is seldom recognized and often despised.

We are not strangers to ourselves; we only try to be.

I believe our recognition of reality's complex dimensions is a consequence of our solitude.

wonder admits to the existence of mystery...recognition of mystery allows the possibility of Truth.

Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.

Being known by everyone is not the same as being loved.

Hay una gran recompensa para el ojo que observa y el oído que escucha.

Somos una nación de ingenieros que aspiran a ser reconocidos.

Readers will easily recognize the cover of a book they've read, but in a cafe that man over there, is that...is that...well, it's hard to tell - doesn't he have long hair? - oh, he's gone.

Is it a boy or a girl? It's a girl. Really! Can't you tell by looking at it? Is it mine? It is not. Oh? Well, if it is, you needn't say so now. You can say when you feel like it. Years and years from now. It is not. It really is not. I haven't forgotten that I loved you, but you are not to imagine things.

Desde un punto de vista espiritual, un líder es sólo un reflejo de la conciencia del pueblo. Por lo tanto, ese líder sólo podrá ser tan fuerte y poderoso como lo sean las personas a las que sirve. Los líderes malos están ahí para hacernos pasar a la acción. Cuando vemos algo que no nos gusta en nuestro liderazgo, es para mostrarnos que eso es lo que debemos reconocer y transformar en nosotros mismos.

El amor de las almas gemelas sólo se reconoce por las miradas.