Quotes About Recognition

The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.

Eisenhower on Patton: "Fundamentally, he is so avid for recognition as a great commander that he won't with ruthlessly suppress any habit that will jeopardize it.

From what I hear of what has been appearing in the newspapers," Ike wrote his son John, "you are learning that it is easy enough for a man to be a newspaper hero one day and a bum the next.

counted themselves among California's established

C'est pour ça que je ne le vis pas venir et c'est pour ça que je ne distinguai pas le moment juste où sa musique commença ; mais, tout d'un coup, elle sauta hors de la pluie et je sus qu'il était là.

Everything about the guy screamed FICTION WRITER, though the species itself broke down more or less evenly into the subcategories: 1. Great American Novelist 2. -New York Times- Bestselling Author Or that highly rare hybrid... 3. -New York Times- Bestselling Great American Novelist

it's never a forgone conclusion that anyone is actually going to see your work, no matter how good it is. And if nobody reads it, it doesn't exist.

Appreciation starts from yourself, or from nobody at all.

First you recognize stillness, then you are it. You feel yourself as autonomous, that is, not identified with what is all around you. And now true relation is possible.

It is very annoying, when people notice your weak moments but never see your strong ones.

I don't want to be known for my face. I want to be known for my work.

My buildings are more famous than me.

You have named him, not I.

Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic.

One friend experienced enormous dukkha when she realized that men no longer looked at her when she walked down the street.

It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.

To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance.

Tis a thankless world

Alain Veynerdi zafer kazanm?? bir komutan edas?yla Anna'ya bakt?. O an hayat?n?n en mutlu an? olmal?yd?: –Han?mefendi, bundan önceki hayat?n?zda siz bir Türk'tünüz.

Avec un naturel éprouvé, elle passa en quelques instants de l'émotion à la reconnaissance, de la reconnaissance à la tendresse, de la tendresse au désir.

There is always a smile, a blessing, a flare of recognition from the hardworking young man who, because of the way beauty begets empathy (among other things), imagines his own little sister or cousin or daughter in the place of these girls.

It matters little whether we see or not the triumph of our work or even its recognition; that has no importance, as long as it is devoted to truth and justice. As long as this is so, we shall not die, we shall always have friends and even a homeland, as we carry it within us; our country is that of the spirit. Ödön von Horvath, letter to Theodor Csokor of 23 March 1938

The longing to belong and to be prized by one's peers permeates childhood and adolescence and can be compelling and anxiety provoking at any time in life, as the common dread of cocktail parties in adulthood attests. This need -- as old and as potent as erotic desire -- is a fundamental part of being human; according to object relations theory, we become ourselves by being recognized and loved by others.