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Quotes About Recognition

Whoever you are, behold your master,He is, or was, or has to be.
~ Voltaire
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
~ Voltaire
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
~ Voltaire
but it also had an odd metallic tang to it that I instantly recognized from when I was Buddy and had a bad taste in my mouth that I couldn't get rid of. The bald man probably had the same taste in his mouth, because it was on his breath.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Some books are undeservedly forgotten, none are undeservedly remembered
~ W. H. Auden
He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient.
~ Unknown
The One who created the world pervades it. Do not look for the True One far away. Recognize the Word [the Divine Spirit] dwelling in every heart.
~ Unknown
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
I have to thank Messrs. Macmillan, and the editors of Belgravia, All the Year Round, and Monthly Packet, for leave to quote from Patrick Kennedy's Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, and Miss Maclintock's articles respectively; Lady Wilde, for leave to give what I would from her Ancient Legends of Ireland (Ward & Downey); and Mr. Douglas Hyde, for his three unpublished stories
~ W.B. Yeats
I am sure it is everyone's experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.
~ W.H. Auden
Let all your thinks be thanks.
~ W.H. Auden
Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.
~ Unknown
When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
~ Unknown
If I hadn't been living here [in America], do you think we would have gotten a Grammy? No chance.
~ Lemmy Kilmister
The awards season gives a chance for independent films to have a bit of longevity in the press and the media.
~ Danny Boyle
I would think if someone connected to steroids made the Hall of Fame, that would enhance my chances of making the Hall of Fame.
~ Pete Rose
I used my captors names every chance I had. It was intentional, a way of reminding them that I saw them, of pegging them, of making them see me in return.
~ Amanda Lindhout
Without music, there is not the faintest chance [Bob Dylan] words would now be garlanded as they are.
~ David Bennun
When you have a chance to be an artist with an audience in your lifetime, you have to say thanks to your audience. That's a great thing. That's the best thing that can happen to an artist.
~ Rokia Traore
Every Christmas people are so nice to me, they think I am Little Tim from A Christmas Story. But I'm not. *smiles*
~ Thom Yorke
The people who matter will recognize who you are.
~ Alan Cohen
When I recognize I've got anger, then I realize it's because I have a need that's not being met.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
The first law of social communication is whenever you meet anyone, exalt him or her.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering.
~ Major Taylor