Quotes About Recognition

It's good to be on the power list, but I don't see a practical use of it except when people introduce me to audiences.

There's a very practical reason why Pete Sampras, for example, makes a lot more money than Martina Hingis does. He's much, much better than she is.

One year at the SAG Awards, somebody practically knocked me over, and it was Helen Mirren. She was like, 'Oh my God - is it really you? I'm your biggest fan.' I was like, 'Wait, aren't you supposed to be home reading Shakespeare or something?'

We get paid way less than we deserve. We deliver shows and deserve to get paid more. We practically pay to do this. You deserve to get better paid if you sell the fight.

As a middle class girl from Delhi, with practically no backing in films, this industry and the audience have given me a lot of love.

I practically knew everyone in my town, and now they're all cheering for me. It's humbling and exciting, too.

I actually feel like the phrase 'big in Japan' is not appropriate for me. The reason is that there are more people who sympathize with my practice in America than there are domestically in Japan.

People should be encouraged by things like awards given for corporate governance practices.

Praise is great, but it's also an incentive.

False praise is worse than no praise.

I will only praise someone who can't take anything away from me.

It is time to celebrate the New Black Americans - those who have sealed the Deal, who aren't beholden to liberal indulgence any more than they are to the disdain of the hard Right. It is time to praise blacks who are merely undeniable in their individuality and exemplary in their levels of achievement.

Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

The mindset ideas were developed as a counter to the self-esteem movement of blanketing everyone with praise, whether deserved or not.

Our bigs do a lot for us guards to get us shots, to get us shots, to get us open buckets, that they deserve the praise.

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me.

I don't like being a celebrity, really... Some people get greater praise than they deserve because they have had exposure in the media. I don't think I agree with that at all.

I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.

Sometimes you have to praise players.