Quotes About Recognition

When we recognize the fraud for what it is, we feel incredibly stupid. Something more than our bank accounts is damaged—our egos are damaged. As a result, it's almost impossible for the marketer to regain our trust.

Doug needs to leave for a very simple reason. He's been branded. Everyone at the company has an expectation of who Doug is and what he can do.

Doug has hit a plateau. He's not going to be challenged, pushed, or promoted to president. Doug, regardless of what he could actually accomplish, has stopped evolving—at least in the eyes of the people who matter.

Great leaders embrace deviants by searching for them and catching them doing something right.

We've gone from all of us being everyone to all of us being no one.

At the heart of the exclusive organization is a simple truth: every member is "people like us." Sign up for that and you gain status. Walk away and you lose it.

Humans are lonely, and they want to be seen and known.

I hope that's not so simple that it gets ignored, because it's important. It's such an effective idea that it saves children's lives every day. All the Sternins did was find the mom with the healthy kids. And then they helped the others in the village notice what she was doing. They gave that mom a spotlight, encouraging her to keep it up and, more important, encouraging others to follow her lead.

Meaning is like pornography, you know it when you see it.

Stupefied he gazed at the old man who, naïve as a child, returned his glance still rubbing his hands. How could he have recognized one who so utterly betrayed all his expectations? The man whom Valignano had called a devil, who had made the missionaries apostatize one by one--until now he had envisaged the face of this man as pale and crafty. But here before his very eyes sat this understanding, seemingly good, meek man.

It is the nature of our lives, Madeleine. If you dance in the limelight, it's only natural that people will look at you. You can't expect otherwise.

every village in this place have a handful of people like you. And it is not easy to tell who is who.

The first step toward power is to accept reality

When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.

Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it.

If we are nothing, there is nothing at all to serve as a barrier to our boundless expression of love. Being nothing in this way, we are also, inevitably, everything. 'Everything' does not mean self-aggrandizement, but a decisive recognition of interconnection; we are not separate. Both the clear, open space of 'nothing' and the interconnected mess of 'everything' awakens us to our true nature.

We exercise kindness in any moment when we recognize our shared humanity—with all the hopes, dreams, joys, disappointments, vulnerability, and suffering that implies.

It's all too easy to slot someone into the category of "needing help" and not to recognize the tremendous help they are offering to others.

She said my problem was that I saw things in people that they didn't see in themselves.

It feels good to hear these words, even if I haven't done anything and we're not even close to being men. Even if we are screwups, losers, and criminals, it's still nice to hear someone like Mr. E tell us different.

My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you" (Job 42:5).

Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other.

For the rest of our lives, all we can hear are our names chanted over and over, until we are deaf to everything else.

Even Crazy Horse, the famous Oglala warrior, was named for his father. But nobody called him Junior, for rather logical reasons. "Look! There's the most feared and mysterious Indian of all time! Behold! It is Junior!