Quotes About Recognition

when others draw you out of your own character, and make you assume one that is quite a stranger to you, it is difficult to distinguish you under the disguise

I mean, why am I considered an 'it girl?' Because I'm in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here's the thing with 'it girl' status. It's great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that last?

Putting our minds to something has never been the problem. The problem has been: Who decides whose mind is worthy?

This is the film I could finally get cast in.

Mark how my fame rings out from zone to zone:A thousand critics shouting: "He's unknown!"

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.

Like a Gypsy, like a witch, like Mama, she knew how to see things in a person that they'd just as soon forget.

Beaucoup ont quitté leur terre natale, et beaucoup d'autres, sans l'avoir quitté ne la reconnaissent plus.

We are so used to the elephant in the room that sometimes we forget it is there

Yes Sierra Leone to me was both utterly familiar and ineffably alien: I knew it but I could not claim to understand it.

My name is Attila.' ah-til-ha. 'That's an unusual name,' Jean said. 'to whom?' replied Attila cheerfully. 'Well . . . everyone,' said Jean. 'not to the Hungarians or the Turks,' said Attila. 'your parents named you after Attila the Hun?' Attila smiled. 'Some people,' he said, 'name their baby girls Victoria.

Was this how a mutiny was sparked? In a moment of heedlessness, so that one became a stranger to the person one had been a moment before? Or was it the other way around? That this was when one recognized the stranger that one had always been to oneself; that all one's loyalties and beliefs had been misplaced?

Recognition is famously a passage from ignorance to knowledge.

The nostalgia I had come to treasure was a hypertrophied sense of the past as a place, a place with street signs and a figure atop a staircase that I recognized.

Some papers were taken aback by Coolidge's sudden fame. The New York Times resented the fact that a policy it admired had been promulgated by a figure unfamiliar to its editors.

When a man denies the power of women, he is denying his own subconscious.

William snorts and wakes up, his hair wild and waving like silver palm fronds. He looks like he might have had a bad dream, and Clare smiles to comfort him. He looks at her as if he's never seen her, or never seen her like this, which isn't so;he's seen her a hundred times just like this, seated across from him deep in thought,flinging her legs over the arm of the chair to get comfortable. "Oh,here you are",he says.

Confidence in one's abilities and knowledge, when warranted, is far preferable to false modesty. But humility is not modesty, false or otherwise. Humility is the simple recognition that you don't have all the answers, and you certainly don't have a crystal ball. Research shows that when leaders express humility, teams engage in more learning behavior.

The Fourteenth Amendment was not only revolutionary in its own time. Birthright citizenship remains extremely rare even today. No Asian country grants it. No European country grants it. In fact, the United States is one of only a very few developed nations to recognize birthright citizenship (Canada is another). If anything, the trend is in the opposite direction. France eliminated birthright citizenship in 1993; Ireland, in 2005; New Zealand, in 2006.

I saw in her more potential, more character, than her mother allowed.

A middle-aged mother in a little town called Naples has been named Miss Dreamsville.

To make others feel more human, Fred sought to see their Maker in them and then to treat them accordingly.

It wasn't just the awe of celebrity that moved you; celebrity usually exudes entitlement more than it does peace.