Quotes About Recognition

I care most about what rappers think about me as a rapper, and I've gotten a lot of praise. I think rappers understand I'm a really good rapper, and that means more to me than a random person, you know, 'cause they know what goes into making rap music.

There are so many other rappers that's way better than me. I'm in agreement with that.

There are certain things that I wish people knew - certain things that I feel I started and certain things that I'm responsible for. Sometimes you wish people knew where a certain style of rapping came from or who was the first one to say whatever.

I secured Big Jam through my buzz in the city. My name got bigger and bigger throughout my 1st year of rapping.

When I first started rapping, I was just doing it for the hood to notice me - the hood fame - just to get people's attention around the city, to make me a little show money. But then music became my passion, it got real serious.

I was always popular 'cause I've been rapping since I was 10 years old. Where I am from, I already had songs that I would perform at the parties in the city and like, pep rallies at school. So, I was always popular because I am famous where I am from.

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.

Everyone wants to be paid well - I know that I certainly do. But there are lots of other satisfactions that we get from our work. To feel needed. To feel accomplishment. To believe that our work matters. Being a lawyer gives you a rare chance to experience that kind of success.

It's rare that anybody gets in the Hall of Fame, and to be nominated is good enough for me.

In 1995, I proposed the Harvard Arts Medal. The idea was to celebrate the fact that, although it's rare, Harvard men and women do go into the creative arts. Over the years we've had major, major figures, like Jack Lemmon, John Updike, Yo-Yo Ma, and Bonnie Raitt.

Praise is good. Some people over-praise, though. Genuine appreciation is rare to come by.

If art can be at the service of anything, it's about letting us see a state of grace for those people who rarely get to be able to be seen that way.

Most people don't recognize me, but they know my name. TSA people rarely recognize my name, ironically, and they are the security people.

The Paralympics have for too long been considered the poor cousin of the Olympics. It's always run after the main games and rarely gets anything like the media coverage.

Most of the time, you do films and they can be big films, but you are rarely aware of the fan base that comes with it.

Copy editors are very important and too rarely praised.

Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.

Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

I get so tickled when that pilot happens to be an African American because I rarely see that. The same is true when I go to find restaurants. I mean, most places I go, I kind of have some idea who the chef is, which is why I want to go.

Being present with a person and just seeing them for who they are is something that is so rarely given to us, and I try to do that with everyone I meet.

It's weird to think about being introduced as 'Hall of Fame members Rascal Flatts.'

If a company is second rate, the logo will eventually be perceived as second rate. It is foolhardy to believe that a logo will do its job immediately, before an audience has been properly conditioned.

How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.

We sometimes let ourselves be rated too much by others - we put so much emphasis on a paycheck or what a magazine says.