Quotes About Recognition

Something occurred to me then. It was all about the unfairness of the pageant. Mary Anne was absolutely right. Myriah really should have won, if this pageant was honestly based on people's talents and character, but it wasn't. I was glad that because Myriah had been given such a terrific prize, she wasn't disappointed about not winning the grand prize. But I was sorry that she had to settle (even happily) for second best.

I have worked like a dog all my life, honey. Dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and you slave and the audience doesn't think you have a brain in your head.

Interestingly, when one functions in this mode, one quickly recognizes all the other people who are playing the same game. I had many encounters wherein I would meet the eyes of a person across the room, and suddenly we were playing War of the Warlocks: two strangers holding each other's gaze well past the point that our primate genes or cultural conditioning would ordinarily countenance. Play this game long enough and you begin to have some very strange encounters.

It is time we recognized that all reasonable men and women have a common enemy. It is an enemy so near to us, and so deceptive, that we keep its counsel even as it threatens to destroy the very possibility of human happiness. Our enemy is nothing other than faith itself.

mother is promptly congratulated by hundreds of her neighbors.

Keeping so many people motivated to do the best job possible involves a lot of the different programs and approaches we've developed at Wal-Mart over the years, but none of them would work at all without one simple thing that puts it all together: appreciation. All of us like praise.

Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise.

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.

ACCEPTATION  (ACCEPTA'TION)   n.s.[from accept.]1. Reception, whether good or bad. This large sense seems now wholly out of use.

The world cannot reward those qualities which are concealed from it

I have long known that splendour of reputation is not to be counted among the necessaries of life, and therefore shall not much repine if praise be withheld till it is better deserved.

The thing about capturing a prize fish is that everyone admires the fish, and soon forgets about the fisherman. You love the thing that makes you special, then hate it because it's the thing that makes you special.

Praises of the unworthy are felt by ardent minds as robberies of the deserving.

What people aren't looking for, they rarely see.

this. Whom should I thank?" "The city of Purcell.

True self esteem is not based upon how you think others see you; rather it is based upon the value you put on yourself as a human being.

understanding can only come from a recognition of each other's history.

A todos nos pasa como a Cristo, al final nos reconocen por las heridas.

A significant step for a feminist movement is to recognize what has not ended. And this step is a very hard step. It is a slow and painstaking step. We might think we have made that step only to realize we have to make it again.

after all, it is this noticing that makes things real.

If a world can be what we learn not to notice, noticing becomes a form of political labor.

get uptake." Some complaints get uptake, which is to say, they come off, they survive a collision.