Quotes About Recognition

Anyone who teaches me deserves my respect, honoring and attention.

People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them.

When you discover something long after others have known it, there is a heady contentment that comes.

When Jesus was born, he was already the son of God. I was the daughter of someone who ran away, a big disgrace. And when Jesus suffered, everyone worshipped him. Nobody worshipped me for living with Wen Fu. I was like that wife of Kitchen God. Nobody worshipped me either. He got all the excuses. He got all the credit. She was forgotten.

knowing I had finally arrived where my life said I belonged.

Confucius say a woman is worth a thousand words. Tell your wife she's used up her total

There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite. When men accept the sensitive side of themselves, they come alive.

Men recognised her always: the same effulgent face, the same rust voice. And she and I, we recognised each other; I her face and she my legend.

This is not language, this is the world being turned inside out, not mathematically in super-dimensional planes, not artistically in violaceous daring, but biologically, atomically, so that not even the creator can any more recognize his world.

Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I simply should recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.

Those who complimented me were those who understood me the least.

Characters in a novel or a play who act all the way through exactly as one expects them to... This consistency of theirs, which is held up to our admiration, is on the contrary the very thing which makes us recognise that they are artificially composed.

La qualité des applaudissements importe bien davantage que leur nombre.

I tell the players: You'll hear a lot of applause in your life, fellas, but none will mean more to you than that applause-from your peers. I hope each of you hears that at the end.

Most women cannot afford, either materially or psychologically, to recognize that whatever burnt offerings of obedience they bring to beg protection will not appease the angry little gods around them.

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.

I had to recognize when a race meeting was offering me little promise so that I could bail out early.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all credit for doing it.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.

This item belongs to Mrs. Granger and she may call it anything she likes. -With love from Nicholas Allen

I believe that it is better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked. • Mae West, Belle of the Nineties, 1934

We all recognize grief in moments that should be celebrations;

Prizes aren't love. Because people who never met you can't love you. The slots for winners are already set, from here until Judgment Day.