Quotes About Recognition

I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal.

My goal is to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer.

My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall.

This sounds crazy, but my goal is to be nominated for an Oscar. I was the kid who was practicing my acceptance speech when I was ten.

You basically get what you reward. If you want to achieve the goals and reflect the values in your mission statement, then you need to align the reward system with these goals and values.

I want to be as big as I can be. To me, being big is just playing in front of a lot of people. And that's my goal.

One of my goals is to play the Olympics in 2016. If you're able to represent your country in the Olympics everyone will understand you as a player and not many people do get to go to the Olympics.

'Strictly' is a bit like scoring the winning goal in the FA Cup Final or sinking the final putt in the Ryder Cup - only a few people get the opportunity to do it, and they have got to be famous.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.

Why are we honoring this man? Have we run out of human beings?

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.

When you become senile, you won't know it.

I'm affectionately known by Elton John as either Sylvia Disc or the Bionic Christian.

I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.

All women crave attention, but Twitter and Facebook exposes all the women that can't function without it.

London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

Everywhere in the world, men place all or most of the burden of raising children and maintaining the home on women, but pretend that this burden is not work; they do not reward it as work or count it as work in global accounting, in either developing.

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the categories they commonly used when talking about girls; she wasn't a cock-teaser, a cold fish, an easy lay or a sneaky bi...; she was an honorary person. She had grown to share their contempt for most women.

Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.