Quotes About Recognition

I remember your name perfectly, but I just can't think of your face.

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.

By contemplating the impermanence of everything in the world, we are forced to recognize that every time we do something could be the last time we do it, and this recognition can invest the things we do with a significance and intensity that would otherwise be absent.

Now if my actions prosper, you shall see Your titles graced with greater estimation; Or at the least we shall no longer be Deprived of deserved reputation.

Napoleon taught the world, or perhaps only satisfied a latent longing and gave it shape and hope, to want to be rewarded, visibly, definitely, let us say inorganically, for its deeds. Curiously enough, this mode of thought is even commoner among women than men ; the postulation of an infallible judge somewhere, somehow, who will examine work done and measure it exactly and register it in a stepped list of rewards.

The last thing we learn about ourselves is our effect.

The question to ask yourself is this: What can I give back to balance what's been taken away? Status, turf, team membership, recognition, roles? If people feel that the change has robbed them of control over their futures, can you find some way to give them back a feeling of control?

The good we never miss we rarely prize

The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.

You afoot, the old man said. I knowed your walk the minute I seen you. You always walked like you had the world in your hip pocket. You ain't though, have you? Last time I seen you you was in a fine car. You had big plans.

We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.

Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting.

Who are you?" "No one of consequence." "I must know." "Get used to disappointment.

We shall live for no reason. Then die and be done with it. What a recognition! What shall save us? Only the knowledge that we have lived without illusion, not excluding the illusion that something will save us. —William H. Gass, "Mr. Gaddis and His Goddamn Books" (2006)

I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

When a man is dead, they put money in his coffin, erect monuments to his memory, and celebrate the anniversary of his birthday in set speeches. Would they take any notice of him if he were living? No!

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

OK, so I'm not famous for the right reasons.

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

One of the aims of Tantra is to recognize the divine perfection of the world by seeing it as a mandala "a celestial mansion.

Risk, like pornography, is difficult to define, but we think we know it when we see it.

The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.