Quotes About Recognition

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

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

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

Akama made a small bow. "I can see why he fears you. You are very much alike.

The only outside power capable of persuading Israel to modify its policies and enter into negotiations was the United States. However, the United States would not exercise its influence in this matter until the PLO recognized the state of Israel, something it had steadfastly refused to do.

Like I knew it was bad. And there were these posters.

Is it that the eye finds what the mind is seeking?

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else

I should like someone to remember that there once lived a person named David Berger.

I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous.

People who live according to the pure code of honor are not governed by the profit motive; they are governed by the thymotic urge, the quest for recognition. They seek the sort of glory that can be won only by showing strength in confrontation with death.

And here's Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago.

Just because a book is a classic doesn't mean it has anything to do with real life. Homer's ILIAD is taught at Columbia precisely because most Columbia professors have never seen combat. Daily life on the Columbia Campus involves no bloodshed, no sacrifice, and no possibility of recognition. Indeed, for most college students daily life is less like Homer's ILIAD and more like THE LAST PICTURE SHOW by Larry McMurtry. But who wants to read a book set in Texas?

The rest of the world should know who really defeated the Germans.

At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist.

You're raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it's special. I think people react to celebrities like that - I mean, they treat celebrities like children.

I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something I think that's human nature.

for those who have themselves been victims of extermination campaigns to proclaim uniqueness for their experiences only as a way of denying recognition to others who also have suffered massive genocidal brutalities is to play into the hands of the brutalizers.

And once again Einar became exhausted by the world failing to know who he was.

Einar felt lonely, and he wondered if anybody in the world would ever know him.

Even though she was sitting next to the man, she couldn't believe he had noticed her. It felt to her as if no one could see her. She hardly felt real.

Mais ce n'est pas grave de ne pas avoir de talent. Il faut simplement avoir le talent de le reconnaître.

existe una violencia peor que el dolor de que no lo publiquen a uno: ¡que te publiquen y no salgas del más absoluto anonimato!

No se necesita una sesión muy larga para comprender que mi vida es un intento incesante de probarle al mundo que valgo algo.