Quotes About Recognition

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

Ich bin nicht Stiller!

only human beings can recognize catastrophes, provided they survive them; Nature recognizes no catastrophes.

If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.

Ressentiment must therefore be strongest in a society like ours, where approximately equal rights (political and otherwise) or formal social equality, publicly recognized, go hand in hand with wide factual differences in power, property, and education.

Lecky's method consisted of getting the subject to see that some negative concept of his was inconsistent with some other deeply held belief. Lecky believed that it was inherent in the very nature of "mind" itself that all ideas and concepts that make up the total content of "personality" must seem to be consistent with each other. If the inconsistency of a given idea is consciously recognized, it must be rejected.

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.

It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57 000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.

When I came back, they gave me blank looks. Some said, 'I don't think I've seen you for days.' Some not even that. And I'd been away for ten years!

Strašno je proživeti vek kao anoniman i potpuno neopažen ?ovek; nikakva odjeka od tebe nema, jednak si kamenu ili ba?enoj grani kraj puta. Niko te zapamtiti ne?e. Jer ve? za tvoga života pitaju: ko je taj Ivan Mari?? Šta je u?inio?

Treba da zapazimo ?ovjeka, da ga razlikujemo od ostalih, svako ima nešto svoje, i drago mu je ako se baš to posebno primijeti.

The everything of womanhood carries no reward at all. And yet, everything still has to get done. So you keep working and you stop waiting, but the hope is still there, tucked in a corner. Sometimes it's the only thing that keeps you going—the hope that that someone—that one person—will applaud.

El olor de su piel es demasiado familiar para descubrirlo.

Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star...

What does a woman have to do to be seen as a serious person?" "Be a man, I guess," Ethan said...

You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.

In life, no one gives you credit for effort.

I think there are two kinds of feminists. The famous ones, and everyone else. Everyone else, all the people who just quietly go and do what they're supposed to do, and don't get a lot of credit for it, and don't have someone out there every day telling them they're doing an awesome job.

Inteligente. For years it had been enough to be the intelligent one. All that had meant, in the beginning, was that you could answer the kinds of questions that your teachers asked. The whole world appeared to be fact-based, and that had been a relief to Greer, who could dredge up facts with great ease, a magician pulling coins from behind any available ear. Facts appeared before her, and the she simply articulated them, and in this way she became known as the smartest one in her glass.

She saw, briefly, the way the world rarely stopped to salute you or admonish you, regardless of what you had or had not accomplished.

There's only a handful of women who get anywhere. Short story writers, mostly, as if maybe women are somehow more acceptable in miniature.

You really only learn your place, her mother once said, when you're left in it.

People see what they want to see. They're busy trying to figure out who Bandersnitch is, but what they don't expect is someone who looks like me, so no one sees me, even when I'm right in front of them. I'm hiding in plain sight. I stay in the background mostly. It's a damnable thing, but it works. You were surprised at who I was, remember. I wasn't as you imagined me.

Much is said about brilliance. Less attention is paid to those who live next to it. Spouses, children, assistants…if anyone thinks of us at all, it's generally to remark upon how lucky we are to bask in the light of genius.