Quotes About Recognition

Be sure that if you are unhappily celebrated for either beauty, wit, intellect, or all three together, half society wishes you dead already, and the other half tries to make you as wretched as possible while you are alive.

The healing hero, therefore, is the one who finds some creative way out, a way not already known, and does not follow a pattern. Ordinary sick people follow ordinary patterns, but the shaman cannot be cured by the usual methods of healing. He has to find the unique way, the only way that applies to him. The creative personality who can do that then becomes a healer and is recognized as such by his colleagues.

You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

We're like the raw food movement in cinema - so determined to give people things that do some good, that they recognize as real.

All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost.

In New York, I'll walk down the street and someone will say, 'Nice show,' and that's it. If I'm at a food festival, it's open season.

If compliments were food, I'd have starved to death 28 years ago.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Recognizing a problem doesn't always bring a solution, but until we recognize that problem, there can be no solution.

Every dog has its day but it's not every dog that knows when he's having it.

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.

Freedom is the recognition of contingency.

It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable calling myself a writer—I am merely a word criminal.

But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.

Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

I am I because my little dog knows me.

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

There was a poor poet named Clough, Whom his friends all united to puff, But the public, though dull, Had not such a skull As belonged to believers in Clough.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who come into a room and say "Here I am!" and those who come in and say "Oh there you are."

I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.