Quotes About Recognition

No doubt there are people who are our guests [ in Oh, Hello] who are more famous, but to me, Mel Brooks is the most famous person. So that was really cool.

Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the recognition that some things are more important than fear - and what's more important to me is faith.

it wont be possible to be famouse without courage.

If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.

My dad did teach me a very important lesson about people when he explained to me that everybody around you will have an invisible sign on their head, which says, "Make me feel important."

Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.

My dad said: 'It looks like you'll be world No.1 in a few hours and I wanted to be the first to say congratulations.

There was one moment where they were riding their little ponies in Scotland, and Stella said to me: 'Dad! You're Paul McCartney, aren't you?' 'Yes darling, but I'm Daddy really'.

I recognise Santangelo's dad, who saves police brutality for when he gets to his son.

I'd like to thank ma da (dad)... my mum for doin' aw ma washin'

It's nice when they notice the deep voice from across the house, and they know it's papa. They know it's Dad.

I'll probably always be 'Timothy Spall's son' and it's something I'm proud of. Maybe one day as well as that, they'll say of Timothy Spall that 'He's Rafe Spall's dad'.

He had won, easily. This was something else he could do, and do well, and his Dad had been there to witness his success.

I'm not suggesting that you have to overcome your fear of death. But we have to be willing to recognize at any moment, death could come.

If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it. [Lat., Si post fata venit gloria non propero.]

A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.

I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.

What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!

The smile's refusal to recognize, let alone to sanction in himself, the savage obstinacy that seven decades of surviving requires of a man. As though anyone over ten believes you can subjugate with a smile, even one that kind and warm, all the things that are out to get you, with a smile hold it all together when the strong arm of the unforeseen comes crashing down on your head.

success can lead to acclaim that can undermine the habits of mind that produced the success.

We understand God best, Dorothy Sayers suggests, by thinking of God as a creative artist. Imagine God as an engineer or watchmaker or immovable force, and you will go astray. God's image shines through us most clearly in the act of creation-comprising the three stages of Idea, Expression, and Recognition-and by reproducing this act we may begin to grasp, by analogy, the Trinity.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults," said Pascal, "but it is a still greater evil to be full of them, and to be unwilling to recognize them.