Quotes About Recognition

What else can I say? You don't know your own worth. Do not sell yourself at a ridiculous price, You who are so valuable in God's eyes. (Rumi)

Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.

Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted, and then demand as a right. Hold them up for all the market will bear.

Some need a whip and others a pat on the back and others are better off when they are ignored.

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

I just never really gave myself any credit. And because of that, nobody else did either. You mirror what the world mirrors to you.

All of a sudden one day I was like, I'm good at this! Oh, man! People are not giving me jobs because they feel sorry for me! I am an actress. I am a singer. I am a performer. That's what I do! Once I started giving myself a little credit, the whole world opened up.

I'm satisfied. I am progressively making my life and my name in the surest and purest manner. If I catch on in the theater, as I think I will, all the doors will gladly open wide for me.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

I awoke one morning to find myself famous.

Censure no more shall brand my humble name The child of passion and the fool of fame

If appreciation is important to you in your relationship with your manager, realize that it is equally important to the people you manage.

Publishing a book does not make you and authority or an expert. Authorship does not equal authority.

Stop spending money to be nominated for worthless awards with no substance and no worth to your career. If you have to spend money to be nominated for an award and then spend the time to push all your friends and fans to vote for you to win that award, it is not worth it and it is not going to help you in anyway whatsoever in the long run.

You say his name like we should recognize it," Mal says. "Sorry, I guess not everyone is a winter sports enthusiast. Jon is a Canadian Olympian—a downhill skier.

She's understanding now what women mean when they say females her age seem to disappear.

Rue's pulse quickens as she recognizes Dianne Klister. A notorious criminal lawyer in this town, and a media whore.

A Lemon Gingertini," the dark-haired girl says. She curls her hands neatly under her chin and watches me mix the ginger syrup. "Oh, could you go light on the ice, too?" "Sure thing," I say. Damn. I can't place her face. "And make sure to add a slice of 'I'll kick your ass myself if you ever f*** over my best friend again'?" Her sweet voice changes to venom-laced.

Certainly we all have our deal-breakers. But when patients repeatedly engage in this kind of analysis, sometimes I'll say, "If the queen had balls, she'd be the king." If you go through life picking and choosing, if you don't recognize that "the perfect is the enemy of the good," you may deprive yourself of joy.

Until you don't recognize that "the perfect is the enemy of the good" you may deprive yourself of joy.

Second chances do come your way. Like trains, they arrive and depart regularly. Recognizing the ones that matter is the trick.

I'm one of those people who other people like but never remember. I think most of the world is probably like me. Until recently nothing about me was outstanding, and then my mother got cancer. It's a disease people like to talk about, so I'm more popular now. And when I flip through magazines, I read the breast cancer articles first, even before the numerology column.

Girls are also human beings, a point often overlooked.

I just needed to hear someone else say it. I do deserve better.