Quotes About Recognition

Before 1802, cirrus, cumulus, and altostratus clouds hadn't been given names. Untitled before 1802, the shapes were present in the sky, ethereal or ephemeral, presumably since the big bang, but un-designated, until they needed to be. Why then? The world hasn't been fully seen, until it is named.

The spotlight never fixes our insecurities. It only magnifies what we thought popularity would cover up.

People in everyday life can sniff out the neediness of a performer trying to earn love.

The Abundance Mentality, on the other hand, flows out of a deep inner sense of personal worth and security. It is the paradigm that there is plenty out there and enough to spare for everybody. It results in sharing of prestige, of recognition, of profits, of decision making. It opens possibilities, options, alternatives, and creativity.2

The human soul is designed to recognize and respond to the calm assurance of Jesus.

There is no magic formula for being able to discern God's voice. We can learn to recognize it the way we recognize the voices of those close to us: by knowing Him. And when we know Him, we can tell if what we're feeling led to do is from Him or not.

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame -- to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.

What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I don't know. Likewise, I don't know why I go on living, most of the time. But this not knowing is precisely what I want to preserve. As readers, the closest way we can engage with a literary work is to protect its indeterminacy; to return ourselves and it to a place that precludes complete recognition. Really, when I'm reading, all I want is to stand amazed in front of an unknown object at odds with the world.

The world needs to see that this church, of all organizations on the face of the earth, honors women.

the medieval practice of proclaiming saints through the acclamation of the people.

You got pretty popular for a while there.' 'For about forty-eight hours,' I said. 'Just long enough to figure out that I don't want to be popular.

Patterns, Mr. Tiffany once said, be they found in events, in nature, even in the stars in the firmament, are proof of history repeating itself. If we see randomness, it is only because we don't yet recognize the pattern.

Who do we seek, my spies? Again and again, I announce to the world: I. M. Realdom! I. M. Realdom! I. M. Realdom! I cannot say it too often! Do you have that?

When they put you on stage / you looked around and saw I was the prize waiting to be awarded. / At last you took a step into the rest of your life / and left me on stage bawling like a child.

Parece reconhecer-se muito mais facilmente o fogo depois de domesticado.

Em nosso país a vulgaridade é um título, a mediocridade um brasão.

One attention from the right person, it's worth more than thousands attentions from wrong people

But most of all, I'd like to thank me. Without me, none of this would have been possible. I really did a bang-up job on this book, and I deserve all the credit. I hereby revoke all the gratitude I expressed above and keep it for myself.

believe we can recognize truth when we see it, just not at first and not without ever relenting in our efforts to learn more.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

In the real world, success has all kinds of different faces in all kinds of different fields of endeavor. It would be nice if we could acknowledge as much to our kids.

Patroclus,'' Achilles tilted his face up with a gentle finger under his chin. ''I would recognise you in total darkness, were you mute and I deaf. I would recognise you in another lifetime entirely, in different bodies, different times. And I would love you in all of this, until the very last star in the sky burnt out into oblivion''.

Of all the mortals on the earth, there are only a few the gods will ever hear of. Consider the practicalities. By the time we learn their names, they are dead. They must be meteors indeed to catch our attention. The merely good: you are dust to us.

Most men do not know me for what I am." "Most men in my experience are fools," he said.