Quotes About Recognition

Whether they represent us as clowns or criminals, the main thing is that they mention us, that they concern themselves with us again and again.

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having,has a price.

In one guise or another, Indians always are. Again, it is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has its price. People who respect themselves are willing to accept the risk that the Indians will be hostile, that the venture will go bankrupt, that the liaison may not turn out to be one in which every day is a holiday because you're married to me. They are willing to invest something of themselves; they may not play at all, but when they do play, they know the odds.

People who have recently lost someone have a certain look, recognizable maybe only to those who have seen that look on their own faces. I have noticed it on my face and I notice it now on others. The look is one of extreme vulnerability, nakedness, openness.

In fact I did not need to look, nor could I avoid them by not looking: I knew them by heart.

She wrote in a world in which mourning was still recognized, allowed, not hidden from view.

When I try to reconstruct those weeks at UCLA I recognize the mudginess in my own memory. There are parts of days that seem very clear and parts of days that do not.

There was a way to know if you had made headway. You knew you had made headway, when a doctor to whom you had made one or another suggestions, presented, a day later, the plan as his own.

My brother refers to my husband, in his presence, as "Joan's husband." Marriage is the classic betrayal.

Everything that was said to me I seemed to have heard before, and I could no longer listen.

I smooth out the snapshot and look into his face, and do and do not see my own.

It has long been clear that women who leave violent partners are at risk of death or serious injury. What hasn't sufficiently been recognised until now is that abusers who can no longer hurt members of their own families, might, in a small number of cases pose a lethal threat to total strangers. Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, Rachid Redouane and Darren Osborne had all been thrown out by their partners in the weeks or months before they committed a terrorist attack

Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference... I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.

I've always recognized that look – that look of sanctified contempt adopted by the righteous.

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.

Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.

How similar does someone have to be to you before you remember to see them, first, as human?

when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.

Teachers deserve respect, I explain. Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?

I hadn't been thinking, actually. I was just trying to get to a place where I'd be noticed.

Let your work show off for you and not your ego.

It's no use going the extra mile if people don't expect it. You will never get extra credit for it. Just invest it on something else.