Quotes About Recognition

wish I could start a revolution for ER nurses specifically; we are the rock stars of nursing, but are treated like the red-headed bastard stepchild." —a North Carolina ER nurse

Studies have shown that, at least among students, popularity equals visibility.

I am a Count, Not a Saint.

We frequently pass so near to happiness without seeing, without regarding it, or if we do see and regard it, yet without recognizing it.

Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves!

But that's not the name of a man, it's the name of a mountain! (...) It is my name, Athos said calmly. But you said your name was d'Artagnan. I? Yes, you. That is to say, someone said to me: 'You are M. d'Artagnan?' I replied: 'You think so?' My guards shouted that they were sure of it. I did not want to vex them. Besides, I might have been mistaken.

The fact is that roughly two-thirds of all fiction purchases are made because the consumer is already familiar with the author.

I would know Christina Rossetti in a minute but not you.

Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.

If you get noticed by a "tastemaker" (an important blogger, journalist, radio station, etc.), be sure to say thanks. You can do it on social media, but try something else to make your "thanks" unique.

Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, 'You're fired!'

It's essential to learn to recognize, respect, and meet your own needs, for if you don't take care of them, you wind up feeling needy and unfulfilled. As the sense of deprivation builds up, you may find yourself struggling with your weight.

I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.

And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.

Though everyone in the bar knew who he was, no one asked him about the death, though one old man did rustle his newspaper suggestively.

We always know more than we think we do. The problem is we don't always know what we know.

In der Studienzeit lernten wir uns kennen, sie fiel jedem auf mit ihren langen, leuchtend blonden, dicken Haaren, von hinten war sie schöner als von vorn. Angelika.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition," he wrote. "I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

I struggle again to draw this man's face in a crowd of faces: which dog-eared lines and frayed adjectives do I use? How do I sketch his visage, the way he looked to me then, at first sight, still mysterious? Among countless pairs of brown eyes, how to distinguish those two soft, open, wise ones, their gaze alert but slightly awkward, marveling? How to outline the lips, nose, brows, chin, so that I can see them afresh, as simple as a portrait on a cafe napkin?

It is true that if you look exclusively to please others what you do will seldom be worth doing; but if your idea of success includes recognition, then the more you can learn imaginatively of your audience the better. If, knowing their tastes, you can give them not only what they want but something much better than they, being nonprofessionals, could imagine, you are sure of your success.

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.