Quotes About Recognition

Unlike the baboon who gluts himself only on food, man nourishes himself mostly on self-esteem. It

Very few of us ever find our authentic talent—usually it is found for us, as we stumble into a way of life that society rewards us for.

Chapter Nine SOCIAL ENCOUNTERS: THE STAGING OF THE SELF-ESTEEM ERVING GOFFMAN (1959, p. 13) "Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others will value and treat him in a correspondingly appropriate way … he automatically exerts a moral demand upon others, obliging them to value him.

He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled...

But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.

A valuable thing too is never to let anyone know how fine you thought anyone else ever was because they know better and no one was ever that splendid.

This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought that we did not deserve to live in the world if we did not see it.

You know. Don't pretend you don't know.

And tell me, who is the greatest writer in America? My husband, said my wife.

A man must learn to recognize values.

You know. Don't pretend you don't know.

Sre?a je nešto što dolazi u raznim oblicima i tko je uop?e može prepoznati? Ja bih je ipak uzeo u svakom obliku i platio koliko traže.

Allow me to pay this small tribute to you who taught so much to those of us who wanted to be writers when we were young. I deplore the fact that you have not yet received a Nobel Prize, especially when it was given to so many who deserved it less, like me, who am only an adventurer.

En það ver erfitt að viðurkenna hann sem drykkjuræfil, af þeim sökum hve fullkominn hænuhaus hann var.

that's hilaire belloc,' i said to my friend. 'ford was here this afternoon and cut him dead.' 'don't be a silly ass,' my friend said. 'that's aleister crowley, the diabolist. he's supposed to be the wickedest man in the world.' 'sorry,' i said.

we can tolerate seeing

It might be if he had not appeared the way he did appear that day she would never have looked so closely at him, but the time people come makes a difference.

He seemed to give the changes his same, kind recognition--to accept them because they had to be only of the time being, even to love them, even to laugh sometimes at their absurdity

Hallo, Fremder, sagte er zu dem zweiten Reisenden. Die Welt ist klein! Lange her, seit unsere Köpfe Seite an Seite auf dem Kissen lagen. Eine Ewigkeit!, rief der andere. Da wusste Clement, dass sie alle einander fremd waren und dass die stürmische Nacht vor ihnen lag.

Atunci, stimat? doamn?, cred c? nu mai încape nici o îndoial?, ne-am mai v?zut, iar dumneavoastr? sunteÅ£i chiar soÅ£ia mea.

POMPIERUL: Hai s? v? zic alta. CocoÅŸul. "într-o bun? zi, un cocoÅŸ a vrut s? fac? pe câinele. Numai c? n-a avut noroc, a fost imediat recunoscut. DOAMNA SMITH: Da, dar câinele care a vrut s? fac? pe cocoÅŸul n-a fost recunoscut niciodat?.

JEAN: I promise you'll recognize her by her smile. No-one smiles like her. She's on the tall side, I think, and she has long arms. But you'll recognize her too by the look of wonder on her face at finding herself here . . . She'll close her eyes a minute because the light's too strong. She'll ask you if I've been here if you've seen me, if anyone's waiting for her.

Her eyes . . . What's the colour of her eyes . . . ? JEAN : Misty eyes . . . no, black . . . no, very bright . . . and penetrating . . . no, elusive . . . with a present, no, absent look, the colour of certain dreams, as gentle as the touch of a warm river in summer. You see? She's easy to recognize!

I'll recognize her by the way she's trying to recognize me. Lost memories will guide her.