Quotes About Recognition

En människa kan leva utan syn, en blind är också människa. Men blir man inte sedd, då är man ingenting.

In case you forgot, my name is Zach Wells. It would not be so strange or awfully bad if you had forgotten.

Poet's food is love and fame.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

Dan is my ordinary friend. Everybody should have at least one ordinary friend and Dan is as ordinary as they come. He is so ordinary that most people have to meet him six or seven times before they remember his name.

Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.

Endangerment is the process of constantly projecting danger onto safe enough situations. Your recovering depends on learning how to recognize and confront the 14 inner critic attacks listed below. When this process of recovering is bypassed, these deeply engrained programs continue to send you tumbling back into the overwhelming fear, shame and hopelessness of your childhood abandonment.

Trauma has become so commonplace that most people don't even recognize its presence. It affects everyone. Each of us has had a traumatic experience at some point in our lives, regardless of whether it left us with an obvious case of post-traumatic stress. Because trauma symptoms can remain hidden for years after a triggering event, some of us who have been traumatized are not yet symptomatic.

And so each man wants and works, almost automatically, for the approval of his people.

I regard posterity as vulgar as success. I don't trust posterity. I don't think what's good is necessarily recognized in the long run. Too many good writers have disappeared.

If you don't believe this, think what would happen if a teacher gave all A's. The teacher would have a problem.

Iš teisyb?s, režisierius niekada negali pripažinti, kad tai jo pirmasis pastatymas. Gird?jau, jog pradedantis hipnotizuotojas niekuomet neprasitaria pacientui hipnotizuoj?s pirm?kart.

To become more competent, or even expert, we must learn to recognize competence when we see it in others, become more accurate judges of what we ourselves know and don't know, adopt learning strategies that get results, and find objective ways to track our progress.

L. L. Jacoby, C. N. Wahlheim, & J. H. Coane, Test-enhanced learning of natural concepts: effects on recognition memory, classification, and metacognition, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 36 (2010), 1441

There are known knowns; there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns; that is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns—there are things we do not know we don't know.

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.

One is not entitled to contempt for something to which one is not equal.

What's fame, after all? It can be what someone writes on your tombstone.

It remained a source of mild shame that he'd never quite realized just how knowledgeable his wife was in her field.

Thanks to Dybal's recognition gift, his mind perceived her longtalk trying to insinuate itself into his consciousness, a soothing compulsion for him to come to her just as she had suggested. She was trying to dominate him.

Officially. That's what it'll be: officially vindicated.

In terms of intellectual debt, more people deserve acknowledgment than we could possibly list.