Quotes About Recognition

I was an unusually private person - in a way, kind of insufferably so. I think I thought the celebrity thing when it happened was a temporary phenomenon, and I was above it.

Vic remembers well the admonitions he received as a boy. Any gift or favor to him quickly resulted in a thank-you note, always on off-white paper and always written in black ink.

Who are you?' 'They call me Good-Looking Joe,' the stranger replied. 'You gave yourself that name, right?' Joe laughed. 'Only the Joe part.

If I ever go missing I want my picture on a beer bottle instead of a milk carton. That way, my friends will know I'm missing.

When you recognize a weakness, it is a wonderful thing—because then you can ask for help.

Yeah, she's something. Thanks, Mr. Kaufman." Tracy started from the store but turned back when Mr. Kaufman called her name.

It is the work that matters, not the applause that follows.

People in a hurry get noticed.

Sin embargo, cuando en el 2000 el Senado francés propuso reconocer el genocidio armenio de 1915, el secretario general del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores respondió con una declaración que podría haber sido emitida por la embajada turca. Loïc Hennekinne dijo que ésa no era tarea del parlamento y que la historia «debía ser interpretada por los historiadores».

There's people who'd expect you to take a bullet for them and they don't bother rememb'ring yuh name.

I am become a name.

Such is the universal desire for fame that those who achieve it accidentally or unwillingly will wait in vain for pity.

I think there are a lot of nutters in the world, and the less we reward them for their nuttery, the better for all of us.

Popularity's overrated.

A marked desire to be considered more than he felt himself to be; to become endowed, in fact, with that unpredictable, dangerous and transformative quality: fame.

I was nearly christened Eric Bloom Strike,' he said and Robin choked on her water. He laughed as she coughed into a napkin. 'Let's face it, Cormoran's not much bloody better. Cormoran Blue—' ' Blue? ' 'Blue Öyster Cult, aren't you listening?' 'God,' said Robin. 'You keep that quiet.' 'Wouldn't you?

Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Unhappy is he whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. Lucius Accius, Telephus

Can I just ask—are you the Cormoran Strike?" "I doubt there are many others," said Strike.

You're the best I've got.

Vext the dim sea: I am become a name…

If Jonny Rokeby turned up here, yes, the press would be fighting tooth and nail to get a shot of him. For fuck's sake. You're not that famous. Get the fuck over yourself.

Unhappy is he whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

she was tired of being taken for granted in ways Strike didn't recognize.

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.