Quotes About Recognition

She had earned his respect as a boy and should be given at least as much respect now that he knew she was a woman.

She has never made up her mind between public acclaim—which she sees, rightly or wrongly, as destructive of the true artistic impulse—and obscurity, for which she is not temperamentally fitted.

I thank them for the same service.

but he needed the approval of a few, to confirm the applause of the others.

Aplausos, quando os não fundamenta o mérito, afagam certamente o espírito e dão algum verniz de celebridade; mas quem tem vontade de aprender e quer fazer alguma coisa, prefere a lição que melhora ao ruído que lisonjeia.

These opportunities, then, gave these men the chance they needed, and their great abilities made them recognize it.

Holiness ... is nothing we can *do* ... It is gift, sheer gift, waiting there to be recognized and received. We do not have to be qualified to be holy. We do not have to be qualified to be whole, or healed.Made

Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named

Our sins defeat us unless we are willing to recognize them, confess them, and so become healed and whole and holy -- not qualified, mind you; just holy.

If your name isn't known, then it's a very lonely feeling.

They can't understand plain, ordinary love when they see it.

It was true what they had been saying: if people remember you, then you're not dead. It was very comforting.

Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen.

Narcissists typically make judgments with greater confidence than other people… and, because their judgments are rendered with such conviction, other people tend to believe them and the narcissists become disproportionately more influential in group situations. Finally, because of their self-confidence and strong need for recognition, narcissists tend to "self-nominate"; consequently, when a leadership gap appears in a group or organization, the narcissists rush to fill it.

Somewhere in retirement, Haywood Hansell saw that announcement in the newspaper, and I'm sure he wondered why he didn't get an award as well for the effort he put toward fighting a war with as few civilian casualties as possible. But we don't give prizes to people who fail at their given tasks, no matter how noble their intentions, do we? To the victor go the spoils.

that made the unfamiliar familiar.

the kind of man who referred to everyone he worked with as eminent.)

Art thou not he? Art thou Montezuma?

When the screen created a pure Blink moment, a small miracle happened, the kind of small miracle that is always possible when we take charge of the first two seconds: they saw her for who she truly was.

in examining the lives of the remarkable among us—the skilled, the talented, and the driven—I will argue that there is something profoundly wrong with the way we make sense of success.

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress ... No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition, whites show towards me, as far as I am concerned, as long as it is not shown to everyone of our people in this country, it doesn't exist for me.

Success has many fathers.

It seems you haven't really become a success until you have as many people as possible condemning you.

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.