Quotes About Recognition

The growing recognition of empathy's role in healing is one reason why nursing will be one of the key professions of the Conceptual Age workforce.

The goal here is to recognize that slow-moving when problems have all the gravity of fast-moving what calamities—and deserve the same collective response.

The best use of money as a motivator is to pay people enough to take the issue of money off the table. But once we've cleared the table, carrots and sticks can achieve precisely the opposite of their intended aims.

By offering a reward, a principal signals to the agent that the task is undesirable.

before long, the existing reward may no longer suffice. It will quickly feel less like a bonus and more like the status quo—which then forces the principal to offer larger rewards to achieve the same effect.20

Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.

Because of their difficulty analyzing the particulars, they became adept at recognizing the patterns.

She has found that the single greatest motivator is "making progress in one's work." The days that people make progress are the days they feel most motivated and engaged. By creating conditions for people to make progress, shining a light on that progress, recognizing and celebrating progress, organizations can help their own cause and enrich people's lives.

It's time to rescue humor from its status as mere entertainment and recognize it for what it is—a sophisticated and peculiarly human form of intelligence that can't be replicated by computers and that is becoming increasingly valuable in a high-concept, high-touch world.

It's dangerous to be people-blind.

A soul isn't given for free. The races of men fight each other to the death for the honor of being recognized as human beings, with souls.

I'm not saying that this is how things should be. I'm saying that this is how things are.

A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.

A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

A sign of a celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.

Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature; the celebrity reveals the possibilities of the media.

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services

And the fetus hears music, as was recently discovered by Alexandra LaMont of Keele University in the U.K. She found that children recognize and prefer music they were exposed to in the womb, a year after they are born.

On the subjective side of reality, resonance can be detected internally as we look to the other and recognize evidence that the other is changed because of our own internal world. We see a tear forming at the edge of the other's eyes as we have just told a sad story. We

We are prone to blame decision makers for good decisions that worked out badly and to give them too little credit for successful moves that appear obvious only after the fact.

The gorilla study illustrates two important facts about our minds: we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

Words that you have seen before become easier to see again—you can identify them better than other words when they are shown very briefly or masked by noise, and you will be quicker (by a few hundredths of a second) to read them than to read other words. In short, you experience greater cognitive ease in perceiving a word you have seen earlier, and it is this sense of ease that gives you the impression of familiarity.