Quotes About Recognition

The framers of the Constitution, dealing with slavery as an incidental but troublesome circumstance, ended by extending it a kind of shamefaced recognition that included a measure of protection, but they contributed little to defining its national status.

There were about 400 heads of state from countries all over the world. I walked out and played 'Hotel California,' and everybody in the place gave me a standing ovation, and half of those countries don't even speak English.

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

Anything that elicits an immediate nod of recognition has only reconfirmed a prejudice.

Thomas Paine remains just one of innumerable Christian missionaries whose contributions to science have been denied recognition by men of science.

Pablo Mora has one of those hangovers where you see yourself in the mirror and think you look familiar.

since dispassionate self-knowledge is not a quality held in much esteem by the majority of the human race

Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - - the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.

As pointed out by David Jewitt, the name "Kuiper belt" then follows Stigler's law, which states, "no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.

The easiest way to combat greed is by recognizing the value of contentment and simplicity.

Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.

There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who's Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who's Mary Astor?

If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.

I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

My name, I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone.

I've spent years when I've not been in the limelight at all and I'm perfectly happy living my life without being swooped on by paparazzi.

I pray to give thanks and to recognize all the good things that are in my life even during times of great change, confusion, or frustration.

Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that.

I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.

The whole thing that makes a mathematician's life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.

They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.