Quotes About Recognition

9. Adult children of alcoholics constantly seek approval

I really don't know anything else because my brothers were famous when I was two years old. So I know nothing else, no other life.

Even from behind, I knew the seated man was Garth. I'd seen him in chair, saddle, and by a campfire. I'd known him running with his hounds, grooming his horses, leaning back to look at the stars from the branches of a pine tree, hunched with concentration whittling a doll, carrying Alice through a storm, and even sparring with a dragon. A woman will know a man from all sides after that.

Blessings sometimes show up in unrecognizable disguises.

needed to be wanted. I couldn't go on without being wanted. And I couldn't stop thinking about that little bitch at the restaurant. I used to be that woman, I thought. I used to be the one who turned heads. Now…Christ…I was becoming invisible.

That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling.

Many admire, few know

The Hall of Fame concert was shown on HBO over Thanksgiving, and the next day Dylan called. "How come I wasn't there? Those were my people. I should have been there.

As a spirit schooled to power, his perception stems from one absolute. Universal harmony begins with recognition that the life in an ordinary pebble is as sacred as conscious selfhood.

If one man praises you, a thousand will repeat the praise.

I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph Harris and when I'd say my father was an actor, kids would say, you know, 'oh, is he Ralph Harris?' And I had to say no and then they would lose interest.

I've always liked Saturn. But I also have some sympathy for Pluto because I heard it's been downgraded from a planet, and I think it should remain a planet. Once you've given something planetary status it's kind of mean to take it away.

I want a billion people to know my name as well as they know their own. I want to clone myself to fame.

When anybody honks at me in traffic, I blush, wave, and shout, Thanks for being a fan." Being a celebrity is a 24/7 thing.

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.

Verbal mirroring involves saying things like "You're really angry!" or "You're sad right now." Verbal mirroring helps a young child identify feelings and helps people of all ages feel heard. The process isn't limited to feelings; qualities are mirrored as well. "You're a pretty girl" and "My, aren't you smart!" are other examples.

We are now able to use this recognition of body states as useful messages rather than indications of present threats. And by achieving all of this, we will have achieved wisdom—the integration of emotions, the feelings of the body, and our ongoing conscious awareness and thinking. We will have progressed from the state of being a trauma victim to becoming a trauma survivor.

I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.

the person who is working is always more important than the work the person is doing.

By any measure, Elizebeth was a great heroine of the Second World War. The British knew it. The navy knew it. The FBI knew it. But the American public never did, because Elizebeth wasn't allowed to speak.

There are two fundamental ways not to be ignored at work. One is to make noise. The other is to make progress, to do exceptional work.

Instead of thinking I can pay people from Kansas less than people from New York, you should think I can get amazing people from Kansas and make them feel valued and well

I hear the way people talk about the children of famous people. They're not treated very well. The presumptions are usually quite awful. So I tried to establish myself with a couple of movies. After 'Juno' I thought: 'I think I've defined myself enough as my own director that I'd love to work with my father.'

I knew I really made it when my dad saw me in London and after the performance he had no notes to me and just said 'You are doing your own thing and I am proud of you.'