Quotes About Recognition

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

Name, please?" he says, or actually, snaps; it sounded way more like a snap, like he's in a big hurry or something. "Um, Danika." I nod. "Danika Kavanaugh?" I say it like a question, as though I'm looking to him to confirm my own name. I roll my eyes and shake my head. Nice to know I'm as big a dork in the UK as I was in the U.S.

But humankind doesn't give a damn ! The proof of it is that in twenty-four years this novel has been collecting dust in libraries and no one, you hear me, no one has ever even talked to me about it. And that's perfectly normal because, as I told you, no one has read it.

I libri scritti per pura bontà sono rarissimi. Sono opere che si creano in abiezione e in solitudine, ben sapendo che dopo averle scagliate in faccia al mondo si sarà ancora più soli e più abietti. È normale, la principale caratteristica della gentilezza disinteressata è di essere irriconoscibile, inconoscibile, invisibile, insospettabile, perché un beneficio che dica il suo nome non è mai disinteressato.

La tragedia consiste nel rivedere la persona e non riconoscerla, o perché in quel momento si scopre in lei un aspetto incredibilmente spiacevole che doveva gia esser presente ma sul quale si era riusciti a illudersi in nome di quella strana forma d'amore così misteriosa e così pericolosa, la cui posta in gioco sfugge continuamente: l'amicizia.

the eye does not see, what the mind does not know.

I came into the Indian team and was touted as someone who did well only against weaker oppositions. There were doubts creeping into my game. I was looking for support, someone to put an arm around my shoulder and say I am good and I belong to this place. Virender Sehwag is that someone for me.

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.

Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material.

Where writers are from is one of the world' s most boring topics. Where we're born, gender or race, wealth or poverty - those are the things we spend time talking about. Stop trying to label me. I'm a writer. Worry about whether I'm any good!

There are those who write because they believe they have something so marvelous that it will make them famous and wealthy, a lauded commodity who will be invited to a lifetime of cocktail parties.

A lot of the people who saw me in the 'Lethal Weapon' movies didn't even know I was a singer.

On the nuclear issue, the first point is that the entire world must recognize that Iran does not seek a nuclear weapon, nor shall it seek a nuclear weapon.

I don't like being recognised. Shopping, I often wear glasses and a scarf.

Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.

After 'The Matrix,' I cannot wear sunglasses. As soon as I put them on, people recognize me.

What actually happened with 'Miracle' was that someone saw me in 'Jurassic Park' and said, 'We want someone with a white beard - how about him?' I've got a round face, white hair, a white beard. I can wear half-moon glasses and waddle a little, cope with a cane, raise my hat.

If I wear a hat and sunglasses, not as many people recognize me.

When you're a child actor and play the precocious kid, the temptation is to wear leather pants or a cutoff shirt to redefine yourself. But I never felt the need to randomly reshuffle the deck and say, 'Don't call me Peter. Call me Pete.' I just figured you evolve naturally, and you'll be recognized for what your successes are.