logo

Quotes About Recognition

Who was he if not destined for fame?
~ Madeline Miller
Everyone looked at me, because I was the most beautiful woman in the town. I don't say this to boast, because there is nothing in it to boast of. It was nothing I did myself.
~ Madeline Miller
This was a man who moved like the gods were watching: every gesture he made was upright and correct. There was no one else it could be but Hector
~ Madeline Miller
Perhaps one day even I will be famous. Perhaps more famous than you." "I doubt it.
~ Madeline Miller
Me bastaba un simple roce o el olor para identificarle, y si me quedara ciego, podría reconocerle por el modo en que respiraba o en que pisaba el suelo. Le reconocería en el fin del mundo, incluso en la muerte.
~ Madeline Miller
He was watching me closely, reading my face over and over, like a priest searching the auguries for an answer. I could see the slight line in his forehead that meant utmost concentration. Something shifted in me then, like the frozen surface of the Apidanos in spring. I had seen the way he looked at Deidameia; or rather the way he did not. It was the same way he had looked at the boys in Phthia, blank and unseeing. He had never, not once, looked at me that way.
~ Madeline Miller
Telemachus the Just," I said. He smiled. "That's what they call you if you're so boring they can't think of something better.
~ Madeline Miller
I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the Earth. I would him in death, at the end of the world
~ Madeline Miller
They never let you be famous AND happy.
~ Madeline Miller
Podría reconocerle por el modo en que respiraba o en que pisaba el suelo. Le reconocería en el fin del mundo, incluso en la muerte.
~ Madeline Miller
Name one hero who was happy - You can't." "I can't." "I know. They never let you become famous and happy - I'll tell you a secret." "Tell me." "I'm going to be the first.
~ Madeline Miller
Chook's phone went to nine rings before she answered in the gritty rancor of interrupted sleep. But her voice changed when she recognized mine. "Trav! I phoned you last night. Who is that Mrs. Atkinson?
~ John D. MacDonald
A lot of my motivation had been to show him that I had value, that I was valued by the world, and so I was worthy of his love and his respect. He had never shown me love or respect.
~ John D. MacDonald
The real power of effective leadership is maximizing other people's potential which inevitably demands also ensuring that they get the credit. When our ego won't let us build another person up, when everything has to build us up, then the effectiveness of the organization reverts to depending instead on how good we are in the technical aspects of what we do. And we have stopped leading and inspiring others to great heights.
~ John Dickson
Everything published goes down the same chute out of the overbright glare of publicity into oblivion.
~ John Dos Passos
Todo hombre anhela que lo elogien y que encima de eso, le paguen bien.
~ John Eldredge
requiring all things to recognize and yield to that authority, announcing that the authority of Jesus Christ is now in effect here.
~ John Eldredge
You may wonder how I had not seen it before. I believe I had. But to see something is not the same as to acknowledge it.
~ John Fowles
I hate people who collect things and classify things and give them names and then forget all about them. That's what people are always doing in art. They call a painter an impressionist or a cubist or something and then they put him in a drawer and don't see him as a living individual painter any more.
~ John Fowles
Urasc oamenii de stiinta care colectioneaza lucruri si le clasifica si le dau nume,ca apoi sa uite cu totul de ele.La fel se intampla si in arta.Eticheteaza un pictor drept impresionist sau cubist sau altceva si il pun intr-un anume sertar si nu se mai gandesc la ca la o fiinta umana care picteaza
~ John Fowles
You know, I have a very bad reputation.
~ John Grisham
Men, we don't deserve respect. Yet. Respect is out there on the floor, just waiting for us to go get it.
~ John Grisham
At the outset, I want to say that we would not be here if not for you. Your detective work over the past twenty years is nothing short of brilliant. It's a miracle, actually, and I've never encountered anything like
~ John Grisham
There are 562 recognized tribes in the U.S., but only about 200 operate casinos. There are approximately 150 additional tribes seeking recognition, but the Feds have grown suspicious. New tribes face an uphill battle getting recognized. Many critics claim their sudden pride in their heritage is driven solely by the desire to get into the casino business. Most Indians do not share in these riches and many still live in poverty.
~ John Grisham