Quotes About Recognition

The person who works for recognition devalues the work he does, that awards are first and foremost political instruments, that altruism's true name is always Anonymous.

Society can serve its citizens only to the extent that it knows them.

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

You can live your whole life not realising that what you're looking for is right in front of you.

You know what I can't understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and funny and talented and all that, I mean endlessly, I've been telling you for years. So why don't you believe it?

No-one ever built a statue of a critic.

In portraiture I look for people that I recognise – 'Look, it's Uncle Tony' – or for the faces of film stars. The Madame Tussaud's school of art appreciation.

You know what I can't understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and funny and talented and all that...So why don't you believe it?

You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.

I got a nomination for director, which means the world to me it's just the most exciting thing for me and my family. You do the good hard work, and the rest of it is something you shouldn't get too caught up in, but when it happens - boy! I respect it.

When they look at themselves they see nothing that was valued by their parents.

Our culture seems incapable of connecting cause and effect when the two events do not occur within easy recall of each other. The parents of these young adults have failed them totally, yet we as a culture refuse to connect cause and effect because we have no stomach for punishing the innocent-appearing parents.

The undernurtured young adult simply cannot afford to recognize that the parents he relies on are incapable of offering the support that he desperately needs.

The reality is that not every place claiming to be a church is part of the church universal, that many churches fail their calling. This fact forces us toward something like the old distinction between the churches that we see (the church visible) and the church that Jesus recognizes as his people (the church invisible). We may not be able to find Christ's people where we thought to look. But I am convinced that we can find them.

It's a big black bloody world full of a million black and bloody hells, and when those hells collide it's time for us to sit up and take fucking notice.

It involves no disrespect for Mrs. Truman to say that her daughter gets a bigger hand than she does,' observed Richard Rovere. 'This country may be run by and for mothers, but its goddesses are daughters. Margaret's entrance comes closer than anything else to bringing down the house.

The way you can spot a false system is that the leaders require the place of honor. It is our belief that the less secure a leader is, the more important titles will be to him or her.

Maybe to some, the removal of recognition sounds disrespectful. The true issue is not whether you choose to use a title or not. The true issue is whether you need it—whether you have to have it. The Pharisees required it, and Jesus pointed out that this is one mark of a false spiritual leader.

Without recognizing it, we have already stepped over the threshold of such a change. I believe that we are at the end of nature.

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

With the success of the last three or so years, when a lot of people start treating you differently, there's a danger that you may start to think of yourself differently. You rely on your friends to say, 'Hey, wake up!'

I'm the most important person in the lives of almost everyone I know and a good number of the people I've never even met.

Deep down, you know you're him.

When you have no voice, you don't exist