Quotes About Recognition

If (Mike) Hargrove was his own man, I would have been picked (for the 1998 All-Star team). He is another person who doesn't appreciate what I did for him.

Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.

Oh good gray head which all men knew!

Character actors aren't a brand in the same way that high-profile leading men are.

In a man's world, I am a woman by birth and after 19 times around I have found - they will stop at nothing once they know what you are worth.

At the outstart of discussions of women's intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how few are the men of the first rank.

Maybe now people will give a man credit where credit is deserved. Roy Jones was beaten by a better fighter period. I'm one of the best in the world.

A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

I want to do something that people can really say, 'Hey, man, that was good, I'm proud of you, I'm proud of that.' 'Pride' and 'Transformers' and things like that.

People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.

Authority doesn't come from a rank.," Kaladin said, fingering the spheres in his pocket. "Where does it come from?" "From the men who give it to you. That's the only way to get it.

Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who's number one and who's number two. Does anybody know who the last man was?

I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.

Many a man may thank his talent for his rank, but no man has ever been able to return the compliment by thanking his rank for his talent.

Even after forty years of directing, shooting and editing films, when I collaborate with a male partner, people still perceive the man as the primary filmmaker.

There are decades in the making of the one man of renown; Multitudes that go unnoticed who must wreathe for him a crown.

I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.

I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.

I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'

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.

The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.

Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.

It wasn't until The Sixth Sense that people started saying, wow, man, you're an actor. People didn't think of me as the guy in a band anymore.

No one knows who I am and no-one cares. I could jump in front of a camera man and he'd just tell me to get out of the way.