Quotes About Recognition

The first thing that has to be recognized is that one cannot train someone to be passionate--it's either in their DNA or it's not.

SIR OLIVER. Egad so He does — mercy on me — He's greatly altered — and seems to have a settled married look — one may read Husband in his Face at this Distance.

For me, the other compelling thread, which dates back to my college days in the 1980s, has been my growing recognition that liberalism—the political ideology I was raised in and still am most generally attracted to—has a serious elitism problem that needs correcting.

Now, what did you say your name was?" Bill asked.9 "I'm Frank Sinatra." "And what is it that you do?" "I'm a singer." "I believe I've heard of you," said Bill, deadpan. "Well, I hope so," Sinatra replied with considerable grace.

Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.

I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'

Many of the Baptists and other thou-shalt-not fundamentalists around me insulated and distanced themselves from whatever opposed their world view. But Clark recognized the presence of evil, and immersed himself in the world while acknowledging its imperfections.

Virtue was vanity dressed up and waiting for applause.

The recognition that what we have seen is the rise of an insecure narcissism – particularly among young people – rather than a rise in genuine self?esteem now seems widely accepted.

When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore he belongs to the world.

Once you recognize the break-even effect and the house money effect, it is easy to spot them in everyday life. It occurs whenever there are two salient reference points, for instance where you started and where you are right now. The house money effect—along with a tendency to extrapolate recent returns into the future—facilitates financial bubbles.

Most people today couldn't tell a bombardier from a brigadier" - said during a lecture in aid of the Army Benevolent Fund in 2009

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

It hurt to think that a boy would not have him at his value of himself.

This, he knew, was courage, the truest, ultimate courage, because there was no one here to sympathize or praise him for it. What he felt was felt without the hope of commendation.

It's a time when men and women come to know what they truly are. A time of purging." I'd been looking at the ceiling as he spoke. At his final words, I turned to face him in surprise. "Is that what the Catholics mean by purgatory?" "In essence." He nodded. "A period during which each soul is cleansed by a self-imposed recognition of past deeds—and misdeeds.

We'd gotten him wrong. He wasn't a dunce. He was an artist. According to these pages, he'd seen us all a good deal clearer than we'd ever seen him.

T]he name that matters is the name you make for yourself in a life of struggle and success!

Plant-blind. Adam's curse. We only see things that look like us.

For a moment, looking felt like something that happened to you rather than something you did. Not 'Are you who I think you are?' Am I who you think I am?

Yesterday's political criminals are on today's postage stamps!

Maybe the key to acclaim is simply to live long enough. But then, maybe acclaim is the foyer to death.

You can't see what you don't understand. But what you think you already understand, you'll fail to notice.

The whole race suffered from Capgras. those birds danced like our next of kin, called and parented and taught and navigated all just like our blood relations. Half their parts were still ours. Yet humans waved them off: Imposters. at most, a strange spectacle to gaze at from a blind.