Quotes About Recognition

In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

Yeah!' I said again, widening my eyes and nodding slowly but emphatically to show that she had seen into my own symmetrical soul.

The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received.

I don't want you to praise me...Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star.

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

Not to belittle what we do as actors, but my wife Helen is a teacher, and she makes a real difference to kids. So it's unusual to see people thinking of us as something special.

I think good teachers are underpaid.

When thoughts arise, recognize them clearly as your teacher.

We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.

When I was in school, one of my teachers was crazy about me. I once heard her tell another teacher, "I wish he was my kid for one day!"

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.

Until teachers get their due it is difficult to bring about a change.

I believe that teachers committed to the community are the ones who deserve to earn the top dollar, a starting salary of a quarter million dollars a year.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

People who don't count won't count.

I'm the biggest sports fan there is, I love sports, but I'm still convinced that it's teachers who deserve the big salaries, not athletes.

None of my English teachers in college were praising me or telling me I was anything special. But then in creative writing classes they were. And I enjoyed those more anyway.

For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

To get enough of the teachers we need, teaching has to be a great job where talented people are supported and rewarded.

After all these years, I could say thank you to a woman who had a powerful impact on my early life.

Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door.