Quotes About Recognition

The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.

Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.

They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

The race film had confirmed a dead heat. That was great. But even better, most of the New York press finally learned to spell my name correctly.

The difference between attention and recognition is self-esteem.

When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

Hurrah! My story was accepted; and Lowell asked if it was not a translation from the German, it was so unlike most tales. I felt much set up, and my fifty dollars will be very happy money.

Come, drunks and drug-takers; come perverts unnerved! Receive the laurel, given, though late, on merit; to whom and wherever deserved. Parochial punks, trimmers, nice people, joiners true-blue, Get the hell out of the way of the laurel. It is deathless And it isn't for you.

What is lack of prevention but denial that there is anything to be prevented?

What are you afraid of? I'm afraid of not recognizing Paradise.

Bang. You're dead.' Gamache swung around, but had recognised the voice an instant after he'd begun to turn. 'You're a sneak, Jean Guy. I'm going to have to put a cow bell on you.' 'Not again.' It wasn't often he could get the drop on the chief. But Beauvoir had begun to worry. Suppose he snuck up on Gamache sometime and he had a heart attack? It would certainly take the fun out of it.

stick. It might look familiar to some of you,' she waited

everyone had strengths. And weaknesses. The important thing was to recognize them. And not expect something from someone who didn't have it to give.

The funny thing about Hell is that we assume it's obvious. Fire, brimstone. We'll be plunged into it by some horrific event in our lives. But the truth is, Hell can be as subtle as Heaven. He looked around. Sometimes we don't recognize we've wandered into Hell until it's too late.

Peter's a lucky man," he said. "Except in one respect. He doesn't seem to know how lucky he is.

Was there an invisible world, Gamache wondered. A place where diminished people met, where they recognized each other? Because if he knew one thing about Julia Martin it was that she too was invisible.

A nod is as good as a wink to a blind badger.

I joke that I've never been burdened by having an actual hit. There's something to that. My records have sold enough to make the record company money to help me keep my job. But I've never had anything so firmly ingrained in the mind of the public that I'm expected to repeat it.

My! ain't men blinder'n moles?

Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.

The power of recognition is one of the strongest forces for stimulating human and social action. Yes, recognition is a powerful motivator—to those who receive it as well as those who observe it.

Everyone recognizes reality (or recognizes what, in their experience, clearly pertains to reality) only because others designate it to them as such. Reality suffers from a species of inherent fragility, such that the reality of reality must incessantly be reinforced in order to endure.

I want to be famous everywhere.