Quotes About Recognition

We must recognize that we cannot allow the Islamic State to continue to present an existential threat to America.

There are cruel, terrible things that happen in this world that are even more traumatizing than the existence of Jeff Sessions. Yes, it can be painful to read about them - but we can never hope to change what we cannot first recognize.

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

My mother struggled immensely with mental illness, and so did I. She grew up bipolar, but it was never diagnosed nor recognized. It was shrugged off like a 'symptom' of being female - of her being weak. I also experienced this growing up: I felt that the great pain I experienced was a dramatisation.

Even just a little bit of praise can weaken you.

When I look back at my career it is nice to know that I've been appreciated on and off the pitch because not everyone is.

The more minutes you get on the pitch, the more you can prove yourself.

Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind.

I am so happy and proud to learn of Hideo Nomo's election to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. He was quite a pitcher and competitor, but he is also a very special and caring person.

I want to become the type of pitcher any one in the world can say is the world's best pitcher.

I don't look at myself as one of the best pitchers in the world.

I'm not going to sit here and say, 'Pity me; I came from modeling.' It's opened a lot of doors. People will take meetings because they've heard the name before. That's an advantage that I have.

The Pixar name means more than any other name. It's very important to us to keep that name at a high level.

Football, for me, was a place where I got accepted for being a good footballer.

If I can work with Shyam Benegal and Yash Chopra together, who are the kings of art house and commercial cinema and win awards for both of them then it means I have placed myself everywhere.

We are a little messianic about our comic books! We feel like they deserve to be more legitimate, they deserve to get more attention, they deserve to have better placement, and they deserve to have a broader audience.

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more.

You cannot be an actor like I am and not have been in some of the worst movies like I have. But I stand before you deeply honored, mighty grateful and just plain gobsmacked.

People don't tend to hassle me because when I've got a hat on, I look like a banker. I'm just a plain guy.

I would have loved to have had a farewell match, and would have wanted the DFB to make that offer. But certain people did not plan that for me. I have to accept that.

Whenever I was flying commercial, I would land in Chicago, and they would announce, 'Get your passports out.' It happened so often, I would walk to the front of the plane and say, 'You're looking for me. Just take me; it will be easier for everybody else.

I was in Africa once. I was in Kenya. I got off the plane, and I thought, 'Africa...' Some guy in a dashiki said, 'Mr. Bundy. Oh my God, it's you.'

When I'm on planes, I'd talk to people and I'd tell them I compete in the X Games. Some would know what it was, but maybe half didn't. But everyone knows about the Olympics. They're really like the X Games for the world!