Quotes About Recognition

In hell it is difficult to tell people from other people.

Take every opportunity to inject self-confidence into those who have earned it. Use ample praise, the more specific the better.

People take you at your own evaluation, or at least the value that you appear to show.

The beautiful have so much easier a time of it than the ugly, don't you think? They get smiled at the whole time. Strangers offer them things. People notice the beautiful; the beautiful are constantly acknowledged.

You noticed things. You're not sure when you start. It's only when you've noticed - noticed that you know you've noticed. Maybe between the first time when you're staring to think, Is this what I think it is? and the second time when you think, Yes, between those two times, there's a silence. A pause.

I think I know you absolutely.

The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

La conciencia surge sólo cuando el entender es captar patrones comunes.

At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.

Any good reward well deserved is well preserved.

The Doctor gave a modest shrug. "Well, I must admit that I made heads turn wherever I go. It's a burden that I just have to live with.

Helen Lawson: The only hit that comes out of a Helen Lawson show is Helen Lawson, and that's ME, baby, remember?

I WOKE WITH a start, my head hurting, aching all over. For a moment I didn't know where I was. Indeed, I felt so fuddled I didn't even know who I was. Hetty Feather, Sapphire Battersea, Emerald Star? I had three names now.

Thing about white people," Jeremiah's father tells him, "they know what everybody else is, but they don't know they're white" - "Maybe some know it" His father eyed him and smiled "When they walk into a party and everyone's black, they know it. Or when they get caught in Harlem after nightfall, they know it. But otherwise...

What did it sound like...having someone call your name across a crowded school yard? How did it feel to turn to the sound of your name, to see some smiling face or waving hand and know it was for you and you alone?" —Staggerlee

Thank you," she murmured a few minutes after their breathing had normalized. "For what?" he laughed, tilting his chin to his chest so he could see her face as he pushed back the half ton of hair that had obscured it. "For answering my question.

All scoundrels are based on this, to want to be...someone's big Other.

gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

J'ai reconnu le bonheur au bruit qu'il a fait en partant

Pero no hay que olvidar que su riqueza [la de los guerreros] sólo viene después de los honores, como consecuencia de ellos. Se es rico porque se reciben honores, pero no se reciben honores porque se es rico: es absolutamente imposible que un miembro de esta clase dirigente se enriquezca por otros conceptos que no sean los de sus proezas.

It's the sad thing about entertainment, it's not always about who is the best.

could respond, they heard a

Looking at the horizon again, I saw a lone figure coming toward me, but I wasn't frightened because I was sure it was my mother. As I got closer to the figure, I could see that it wasn't my mother, but still I wasn't frightened because I could see that it was a woman.

and had I the names of my benefactors, I could most freely record them in letters of gold,