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Quotes About Recognition

The Grammys are supposed to be awards for artistic excellence… Iggy Azalea's not excellent.
~ Azealia Banks
Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.
~ Plutarch
Newton expected no money from establishing his originality but rather desired recognition for his excellence.
~ Tyler Cowen
A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence.
~ Baltasar Gracian
When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol.
~ Harvey Weinstein
Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?
~ E. L. Konigsburg
I want my name to be a brand in comedy. I hope my name stands for comedic excellence.
~ Chris Rock
People always complain about The Grammys because they're not a pop contest, but they're not supposed to be a pop contest. They're about excellence.
~ Unknown
The world pays no attention to those who have nothing to offer
~ Bernard Kelvin Clive
Thank you Madonna and fans for an experience of a lifetime!
~ Guy Oseary
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Everyone in show business has had the experience of the fan who is so excited at recognizing their favorite star, they say, 'Oh my gosh, you're my biggest fan!
~ Audrey Meadows
Keep this point clear: central to discovering an experience's perceptual meaning is a recognition of its identity and its individuality.
~ Unknown
a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.
~ Margaret Deland
Being worshipped is a horrible experience.
~ John Fahey
I think most people have that out-of-body experience when they win the Oscar.
~ Sandra Bullock
The experience of celebrity is gradually being democratized.
~ William Gibson
There were lots of things that I recognized from my experience with Eagle Claw and Wu Hao, and here was the combination of the whole kit and kaboodle, the whole tamale in one.
~ Lou Reed
It has been my experience that the people I judge most harshly are the ones in whom I recognize some part of myself.
~ Melissa Febos
Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me what I was worth.
~ Mika Brzezinski
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.
~ Alan Price