Quotes About Recognition

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

the lost women I need to know their names those women I would have walked with, jauntily the way men go in groups swinging their arms, and the ones those sweating women whom I would have joined After a hard game to chew the fat what would we have called each other laughing joking into our beer? where are my gangs, my teams, my mislaid sisters? all the women who could have known me, where in the world are their names?

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

My ultimate dream is to become a famous star because I love to sing.

You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say, we really like your work. It's a nice acknowledgment.

Love recognises virtue even in sin, truth in error. … [L]ove is free, universal, in its nature[.]

La inferioridad de muchos autodenominados intelectuales se manifiesta precisamente en el hecho de que no reconocen qué capacidad y poder de razonamiento se requieren para desarrollar y operar con éxito una empresa comercial.

Even in ancient times general recognition must have been accorded to the view which later in the shape of the maxim pecunia pecuniam parere non potest was to be the basis of all discussion of the problem of interest for hundreds and even thousands of years, and Aristotle undoubtedly did not state it in the famous passage in his Politics as a new doctrine but as a generally-accepted commonplace.2

If you hid long enough, a ghost among men, you might disappear forever without anyone noticing. It's human nature to ensure that someone has seen the mark you left behind.

It's the way he gets noticed, you know? I mean, imagine what it would be like if you were a squirrel living in the elephant cage at the zoo. Does anyone ever go there and say, Hey check out that squirrel? No, because there's something so much bigger you notice first.

Sometimes all it take to become human again is someone who can see you that way, no matter how you present on the surface.

Sometimes you can't tell how consuming love is until you can see its absence. Sometimes you can't recognize love because it's changed you, like a chimera, so slowly that you didn't witness the transformation.

How are you going to know who I am, she finally said, if I dont look like me?

Sometimes all it takes to become human again is someone who can see you that way, no matter how you present on the surface.

Taking credit for what a child did well also meant accepting responsibility for what they did wrong.

It is such a heady rush to be the object of someone's attention in a good way, not as a freak, that I keep forgetting to hide.

I wonder if anyone works any harder at anything than kids do at being popular.

There was blood, so much blood that it painted his face and stained his hair. There was blood, so much blood that several moments passed before I recognized my father.

The corollary is that we choose not to see what we'd rather pretend doesn't exist.

My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop seeing the scar, and to recognize her again. "Yes," she said. "But see how much of me is left?"  Ã¢â'¬Â¢

It seemed to Wren that having a mother had a lot less to do with a few sweaty hours of labor and delivery, and a lot more to do with whose face you always looked for in a crowd.