Quotes About Recognition

I want to be famous but unknown!

Most of my important lessons about life have come from recognizing how others from a different culture view things.

Knowing a large proportion of your fellow citizens was one thing; but when you recognized each other's pets by name, you knew you'd never get a Red Lobster.

Molto brillante! Consideratevi applaudito.

He had recognized, with reluctance, that holiness was not hereditary, but he continued to hope that it might be compulsive.

The recognition by a people that their prosperity depends on the breadth and depth of their innovative activity is of huge importance. Nations unaware

Poets lose half the praise they should have got,Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

As a physician, David had private recognition, but he craved public approval. Mrs. Roosevelt had public recognition, but she craved intimacy. Each satisfied the other's hunger for acceptance. It was a fair exchange.

the only birds I can recognize without hesitation are the turkey vulture, the fried chicken, and the rosey-bottomed skinny-dipper.

By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong to think I'm a commercial playwright who has somehow ceased his proper function. I have always been the same thing -- which is not a commercial playwright. I'm not after the brass ring.

Time passes. You're not as ... recognizable now as you were.

I have been both overpraised and underpraised. I assume by the time I finish writing -- and I plan to go on writing until I'm 90 or gaga -- it will all equal itself out.

I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.

Public men are often alarmed into gratitude, seldom shamed into it.

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

There will always be someone who can't see your worth. Don't let this person be you.

The sole purpose of a child's middle name, is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.

Sch . . . you know who.

Who's that behind those Foster Grants?

Do you know me?

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.

I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

Doesn't amount to Hannah Cook

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.