Quotes About Recognition

In life you have to remember the people who have done good things for you in the past that you couldn't do for yourself.

The United States armed forces and coalition troops deserve recognition and support for their work to remove Saddam Hussein from power, and ensure the safety and security of the American people, civilians abroad, and the people of Iraq.

To be free is to put justice, truth and service to others over and above our personal gain or our need for recognition, power, honor and success. When we cling to personal power and success, when we are afraid of loosing social status, then we are in some way denying our humanity; we become slaves to our own needs, we are not free.

The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.

We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.

I see my face in the mirror and go, 'I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?

I knew when my career was over. In 1965, my baseball card came out with no picture.

A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I've experienced them both.

Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape ' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'

There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.

There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you're making to be better than you actually are, which is difficult and well meant and deserving of some little notice.

En el primer caso, cuando proyectamos en otros rasgos nuestros que nos disgustan, sentiremos un enorme rechazo hacia ellos. Sin embargo, cuando lo que proyectamos en otros son aquellos rasgos favorables que no hemos reconocido en nosotros, sentiremos admiración por tales personas.

La ceguera no se resuelve con el desprecio, con la ofensa ni con el insulto, sino con el reconocimiento de que todos somos de alguna manera «marionetas», «títeres» de las pulsiones de los egos.

A uno siempre le gusta quedar bien, y después de quedar bien le gusta quedar mejor frente a quien quiere, frente a quien uno, a su vez, pretende hacer méritos para ser querido.