Quotes About Recognition

Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.

Don't call us saints, we don't want to be dismissed that easily.

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.

But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

The Nerds became so popular that the word nerd was added to some dictionaries.

If you start to smell some of the shit, you start smelling all of the shit

He'd write a character for himself. His character would be tall, much taller than he is now. And his sisters would recognize him as dashing. He'd have personal freedom, his own, a way to escape, to escape from them all.

unless you have the tech to recognize their quantum signatures

if you have a sandwich at the local deli named after you, you've been somewhat influential. If you have the entire world counting years from the date of your birth, it's safe to say you've had an impact.

we need accomplishment and achievement to have a strong sense of self-esteem.

I know you don't do what you do for medals, but there will be several coming your way.

Jews make up 0.2 percent of the world population, they make up 27 percent of Nobel physics laureates.

minds had not only detected this subtle sign of arousal," she continued, "but had known it for what it was. And had even managed

Most Americans didn't distinguish fame from accomplishment.

In any profession, you will be respected if you are good at your job – not because you are good at talking about your beliefs. It may be quite irrational, but the fact is that, if you are recognized as being outstanding on one thing, you will be listened to on all sorts of subjects in no way related to it... and so, if you are going to be really effective [for your cause] in your place of work, you must set out to be the best man at your job.

So the recognition that there were two different sexes turned into the suggestion that there were two different genders. And from there the argument was carefully escorted to what turned out – in the universities at least – to be a wildly popular conclusion: which is that there was in fact no such thing as gender. Gender was not real but merely a 'social construct'.

Not the least of them is that while the West is assaulted for everything it has done wrong, it now gets no credit for having got anything right.

Most people are about as aware of their surroundings as a sea cucumber.

Our current economic crises stem, at least in part, from our inability to recognize the storage bias of the money we use. Since it is the only kind of money we know of, we use it for everything.

When presented new information, we have no other option than to relate it to what we already know—there is no blank space in our minds within which new information can be stored so as not to "contaminate" it with existing information. —Clifford Konold, Scientific Reasoning Research Institute, University of Massachusetts

Joy is deep satisfaction in the will of God, and this must be coupled with recognizing the reality that God's will is everywhere and in everything. There is no place where we may go and be allowed to murmur or despair because God's will is somehow "not there.

We live in a narcissistic age, which means that many want to have the praise that comes from having read, without the antecedent labor of actually reading.