Quotes About Recognition

Those with low self-esteem tend to have highly developed egos; they long to be Best at every Thing and valued highly by everyone they meget, and imavine their ego is repressed, weak and needs boosting

Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.

Frankie appreciated both the accolades and the rejections equally, because both meant she'd had an impact. She wasn't a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious.

She had been nobody and he had been golden.

She didn't know if she could love her own mangled, strange heart. She wanted someone else to do it for her, to see it beating behind her ribs and to say, I can see your true self. It is there, and it is rare and worthy. I love you.

She confused being sick with being brave, and suffered agonies while imagining she merited praise for it.

No one in this family can see what's right in front of them.

Every curve of his face was familiar, and also, I had never seen him before.

bad as it seemed. Gwendolyn stirred, her eyelids opening a crack. "What happened?" she asked, her words slurred. "I'm not sure," said Annie. She glanced at the jeweled object still held in her sister's hand. Although Gwendolyn hadn't recognized it, Annie knew what it was right away. Someone had crafted a tiny model

The possibility that all recognition of images is connected with projections and visual anticipations is strengthened by the results of recent experiments. It appears that if you show an observer the image of a pointing hand or arrow, he will tend to shift its location somehow in the direction of the movement. Without this tendency of ours to see potential movement in the form of anticipation, artists would never have been able to create the suggestion of speed in stationary images.

How can you know what is missing if you've never met it? You must know of something's existence before you can notice its absence.

and someone he scarcely knew moved towards him and knelt beside him and whispered, 'Sir, was you calling out for me? ... Sir, I know ... I know,' and touched him.

Lucy was slow to follow what people said, but quick enough to detect what they meant.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

She recognized that this city was a place that granted you only what you were willing to claim

We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

I guess you only know your home when you come back to it.

We asked for a car. The clerk checked our driver's licenses. "Sorry," he said, "you guys are too young." Right. Among the three of us we've got 226 missions over North Vietnam, three ejections, two Silver Stars, five Distinguished Flying Crosses, twenty-three Air Medals, three Purple Hearts, and we're still too young to rent a car.

So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.

This is not a game of Who The Fuck Are You.

When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way.

How, what, and who we celebrate reflects what and who we value, and how we celebrate our past reflects ultimately who we take ourselves to be today.

You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics ' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.