Quotes About Recognition

I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.

My garden will never make me famous, I'm a horticultural ignoramus.

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

My garden will never make me famous. I'm a horticultural ignoramus. I can't tell a string-bean from a soybean, or even a girl bean from a boy bean

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

Perfection is everywhere if we only choose to recognise it. Rikiu loved to quote an old poem which says: 'To those who long only for flowers, fain would I show the full-blown spring which abides in the toiling buds of snow-covered hills.

Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.

Perhaps it's only those who don't know us at all who are able to see us most clearly.

A thing that is not talked about ceases to exist.

the face turns out to be one of the most superficial characteristics of the whole human form),

checks the sick soggy plaster with his finger, the wet paint leaving a mark on his skin. The stains on the walls make maps of countries he can't recognize, he can't name.

Un citoyen ignoré par l'administration est, d'une certaine façon, voué à la non-existence. Il ne faut toutefois pas ignorer qu'une personne privée de ses droits n'a nul devoir à accomplir.

Devilish creatures are always recognized by their feet -- they stamp the earth with a different seal.

all you have to do to become invisible is be a woman of a certain age, without any outstanding features: it is automatic. Not only invisible to men, but also women, who no longer treat her as competition. It is a new and surprising sensation, how people's eyes just sort of float right over her face. They look straight through her, no doubt looking past her at ads and landscapes and schedules.

For it is only in other people's gaze that we see ourselves, isn't it?

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment.

was probably significant that he was physically short-sighted. He could not recognise people until almost upon them. Their faces were like so many buns. Good-natured buns, he would have said, but Harriet did not agree. She saw them in detail and did not like them any the better for it.

Looking at Guy, Harriet laughed and said: 'Freedom is the recognition of necessity'.

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.