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Quotes About Recognition

Weeds don't know they're weeds.
~ John Updike
I'm recognized in public about 80 percent of the time across this country, but during the other 20 percent when I'm not, I get pissed when I realize how shabbily other people must be treated every day. When store clerks or airline reps do suddenly recognize me and get nice after being grumpy when they didn't know who I was, I get testy right back.
~ John Waters
Once I climb in, will they believe it's me even if they know who I am, or think I'm just a John Waters impersonator? Which I am in a way every day Ã¢â'¬Â¦ only older.
~ John Waters
A kind of losing loadum is their game, Where the worst writer has the greatest fame.
~ John Wilmot
The telephone operator and all others who may perform less "important" tasks will not feel important unless you, the leader, teach that them they are valued and explain how their contribution helps the company as a whole. Individuals who feel they don't matter will perform their jobs as if they don't count.
~ John Wooden
Go Out of Your Way to Praise Those "Quiet" Performers Who Make Things Happen.
~ John Wooden
Calvin Coolidge observed, "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
~ John Wooden
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." It
~ John Wooden
It is healing simply to be heard, to be met, to be seen, to be known.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. R. D. LAING
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
The practice of mindfulness involves finding, recognizing, and making use of that in us which is already okay, already beautiful, already whole by virtue of our being human—and drawing upon it to live our lives as if it really mattered how we stand in relationship to what arises, whatever it is.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Being popular is the most important thing in the world!
~ Homer
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
~ Mark Twain
I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name.
~ Shirley Jones
Its really good to have so distinctive a name as an actress. No one ever forgets it. My sister and brother are called Perdita and Rollo. Actually, my family calls me Hollyhocks.
~ Honeysuckle Weeks
Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgard.
~ Bill Skarsgard
I really have to pinch myself to believe that I'm part of the TAG Heuer family
~ Ranbir Kapoor
OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known.
~ Bill Gates
As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.
~ David Rockefeller
You won't see my parents honored on any stamps.
~ Lou Reed
I have a little baby. She knows who I am. My friends know. My family knows.
~ Marla Maples
Canada, by others in the global family, is, for some reason, taken seriously. They have about 30 million people. They have some natural resources.
~ Tucker Carlson
My family do not think I'm special - not one, one bit.
~ Sophie Monk
My mom would leave her job, and there would be throngs of people screaming and banging on our car. I come from a very private family, but I was born into a public family.
~ Tracee Ellis Ross