Quotes About Recognition

Para mí seguía siendo Oceanita, pero para todos los demás no necesitaba ningún nombre. No era más que una esposa, una esposa muy particular. Era la primera dama de una aldea sin damas.

Quién es? —No es nadie. —Pero la he visto, he visto a una mujer escondiéndose. —Es lo que le acabo de decir: aquí, una mujer no es nadie...

He knew every man who worked for him by his first name, it was said, but his daughters could not recall ever seeing him give their mother a kiss.

the most effective problem-finders become adept at searching for and identifying patterns.

Just as not all popular albums are wonderful, not all wonderful albums are popular.

For decades, large sections of the Zionist movement ignored the fact that there were Arabs living in Palestine.

It is really cool to have created a movie that has turned out to become the biggest movie of the year.

John Comaroff, an anthropologist, has written that history is 'any succession of rupturing events which together bring to recognition our misunderstandings and misrecognition of the present'.

In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.

I can't really act - I'm just trying to make as much money as I can before anyone finds out.

It was one thing to be called pretty; it was a true compliment to be called smart.

All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.

He insists on a version of you that is funnier, stranger, more eccentric and profound than you suspect yourself to be--capable of doing more good and more harm in the world than you've ever imagined--it is all but impossible not to believe, at least in his presence and a while after you've left him, that he alone sees through your essence, weighs your true qualities . . . and appreciates you more fully than anyone else ever has.

As the years passed, Ethan noticed that he recognized fewer faces than he had at the beginning, and by the same token an increasing number of residents failed to recognize him. He had never wanted acknowledgment, and thus he was at ease with the changing situation, merely finding it interesting the way so many people now walked past him, or through him, it seemed, as if he were invisible. This was to his liking,

Don't they see it? Can't they recognize the temptation?

rare indeed was the soul who remained unaffected by his own public image.

It is a sure sign of success when people begin to echo your themes without knowing they're doing so.

To be known for one's saddest story is not the road to notoriety anyone would willingly choose.

I'm not what they expect. About once a year I get discovered, get called a diamond in the rough.

Acknowledgments: ... From the start, we also benefitted from the support of Time Inc. editors

What color am I, Thomas?" "About two shades darker than caramel," answered Thomas. "Damn, Thomas. I'm black. We don't watch golf. We watch football, basketball and dominoes." "I can see you at nighttime, Washington, so you're not black." "Do you see caramel as an option when you fill out the U.S. Census, Thomas?" "No, I don't. But there is a place that states other. Check that one next time.

reaching through time and speaking directly to him: Dostoyevsky's Notes from the Underground. "I recognize myself

The 1970s was the decade of liberation, of anger at injustice and demands for recognition and rights. But over time, the demand for specific rights degraded into a generalized sense of entitlement, the demand for specific recognition into a generalized demand for attention and the anger at specific injustice into a generalized feeling of grievance and resentment. The result is a culture of entitlement, attention-seeking and complaint.

gets as much attention as Bond