Quotes About Recognition

A medal is an inconvenient thing to give to a naked man, because he has got no place to fix it on to.

If they were to go away from their land, they must have people round them who had known it, and so could testify to their identity.

When showering life-giving words on another human, don't just pick the people you know well. Notice the one who least expects to be noticed.

We need a sort of reverse mirror test. Some way to identify those species smart enough to see themselves when they look at someone else. Bonus points for how far out the chain you can go. Double bonus points for those who get all the way to insects.

I DIDN'T KNOW what she was thinking or feeling. Her body had become unfamiliar to me. And yet, at the very same time, I recognized everything about her. My sister, Fern. In the whole wide world, my only red poker chip. As if I were looking in a mirror.

Why does the extraordinary courage of ordinary women go so unsung?

When a portent repeats itself three times, like something out of Julius Caesar, even Caliban, a couple of plays over, is bound to notice.

He wanted to know her with such familiarity that he could curve his fingers around a wrist, an ankle, a knee and recognize her from a hundred, a thousand other women

Sometimes the most worthwhile things are right in front of our eyes. We just make them hard because we think that gives them more value.

It was as if the small differences mattered more than the really big ones—like you had to recognize something before you could hate it properly. No

he recognized Donald Trump's picture on the jacket and assumed it was a get-rich-quick scheme. Obviously, Jake Berman hadn't taken the man's advice. Though, considering Berman had lost his job and declared bankruptcy, maybe he had.

He had never brought home a school report and watched his mother smile. The clay ashtray he'd made in kindergarten had been one of sixteen Mrs. Flannigan received on Mother's Day. All the Christmas gifts under the tree were labeled "for a girl" or "for a boy." The evening Will graduated high school, he'd looked out at the crowd of cheering families and seen only strangers.

I told her, "I'm Wayne, and this is—

I see you, she told him. I see exactly who you are.

Everyone knows you're beautiful," he'd told her, "but no one knows that you're clever." Clever. Anybody could be smart. It took a special somebody to be clever.

When theology recognizes one thing properly, it mis-recognizes something else all the more thoroughly.

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When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.

Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs

I am a living label. My name is Labelfeld not Lagerfeld.

Ce n'est pas parce qu'un livre n'a pas de succès qu'il est forcément bon.

Perseus wore a magic cap so that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over our own eyes and ears so as to deny that there are any monsters.

Even Saints, I believe, are never cannonized until years after they've been carried to bed on six men's shoulders.

Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.