Quotes About Recognition

True greatness is often unrecognized.

What is most satisfying for a photographer,' he noted 'is not recognition, success and so forth. It's communication: what you say can mean something to other people, can be of certain importance. . . The photographer's task is not to prove anything about a human event. We're not advertisers; we're witnesses of the transitory.

The newspapers at that time were quite complimentary, they viewed him as an oddball who might just have come up with something good.

I prefer to be noticed, some day, first for my ideas and second for my good eye . . .

He liked to collect celebrities.

General-in-Chief of the army, Lieutenant General Winfield] Scott not only believed that the idea [for a battlefield decoration, to wit, a Medal of Honor, or valor] smacked of Old World vanity, elitism, and snobbery, he also thought that such an award was entirely unnecessary.

An Indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U.S. permits it to be sovereign.

One stupid woman recognizes another one from a distance.

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.

What is "male privilege," and why is it important to name the elephant in the living room? My friend Patricia Monaghan (of blessed memory) describes it this way: "For those who have male privilege, it's like a person wearing strong perfume. Rarely can the wearer smell it, but those around begin to leave the room.

Britannia's big enough to count, but remote enough not to matter.

Looking down, the Israeli pilots could tell their troops from the Egyptians' when they saw ice-cream trucks, hot-dog vans, and laundry wagons navigating the desert.

Discernment, in a most general sense, is the capacity to recognize and respond to the presence and the activity of God—both in the ordinary moments and in the larger decisions of our lives.

Behind my heroic image of myself I saw my tiresome perfectionism, my resentment of those who did not try as hard as I did, and my huge appetite for approval.

When people flatter you constantly it is very tempting to think you deserve it.

I got back into the car thinking how lucky I was to be aware of happiness. Most people don't recognize their own good fortune until it has departed. And then it is too late.

People who aren't as interested in recorded music as they used to be will say, 'Oh, 'Buena Vista?' Loved it.' And I'll say, 'Well, how about any of my other recent records. I've been doing some pretty good ones. You like those?' And they go, 'Huh?

Can you still have any famous last words if you're somebody nobody knows?

No matter what, like, I couldn't - I could break a world record, get an Olympic gold medal, and my mom would be, like, you could have done better. But you looked pretty. That's what she says all the time.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition there. —You (also, Indira Gandhi)

Fame is just popularity on a higher level.

Just because you have a title doesn't mean you deserve respect.

Most people don't deserve the respect they demand, and the few that deserve respect, rarely if ever get it.

To prevent jealousy: Distribute the praise justly.