Quotes About Recognition

Me?" Will said, his voice breaking into a high-pitched squeak of indignation. "What's it got to do with me?" "It's all your fault!" Halt shouted irrationally. And as he said it, the two girls realized he was right.

when he heard the voice, he knew for

to their names, but the car they're driving is registered

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

sometimes it seems as if the universe wants to be noticed!!!

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads.

Sometimes what you're looking for is right under your nose and you don't even know it.

I'd been awake for thirty-six hours and driving for ten. Restless weeks, sleepless nights, and the decision stole into me like a thief. I never planned to go back to North Carolina- I'd buried it- but I blinked and found my hands on the wheel, Manhattan a sinking island to the north. I wore a week-old beard and three day denim, felt stretched by an edginess that bordered on pain, but no one here would fail to recognize me. That's what home was all about, for good or bad.

The class of people to which Nakamura-san belonged came, therefore, to be called by a more neutral name, "hibakusha"—literally, "explosion-affected persons.

I had either been insulted or praised. Perhaps both.

It's just amazing the lengths people go to, to be thought of as special.

invisibility is a luxury.

No one who is anyone anymore.

Es difícil reconocer una cara conocida entre un grupo de desconocidos cuando no se espera

I myself have always disliked being called a "genius." It is fascinating to notice how quick people have been to intuit this aversion and avoid using the term.

We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did...To Mr Phillips, the fact of others' indifference has never brought any comfort.

How odd to still be shocked by what one has always known.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war --for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've never heard the shriek of a wounded animal.

If you hear enough applause and laughter at a young enough age, you are doomed to become an actor.

It slowly dawned on me that, for most of the audience, the show's main attraction was neither the play nor the production but Liv.

PETER: But you're 'Alice'. ALICE: As you're 'Peter'... But after all, what's in a name? PETER: What isn't? She understands.

people work best and hardest in a place where they know they are valued.