Quotes About Recognition

I started to suspect that the real reason we can't agree on a formula for elite team leadership is that we've overcomplicated things. We've been so busy scanning the horizon for transformational knights in shining armor that we've ignored the likelier truth: there are hundreds upon thousands of potentially transformative leaders right in our midst. We just lack the ability to recognize them.

The less identifiable one person's effort is, the less effort they put in.

Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.

It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.

If anybody had the grounds to anticipate systematic brutality, it seems logical that it would be those most immediately endangered.Yet those with the most at stake are in fact often the least prone to recognize their peril.

Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Australian tennis.

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

Give credit to whom credit due.

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

We next to never know when we are well off: but this cuts two ways,--for if we did, we should perhaps know better when we are ill off also; and I have sometimes thought that there are as many ignorant of the one as of the other.

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. His name, like a shuttlecock, must be beat backward and forward, or it falls to the ground.

None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.

I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.

My friend was of opinion that when a man of rank appeared in that character [as an author], he deserved to have his merit handsomely allowed.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

We are always anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

gave unto the gods what was the gods"' and recognized and accepted as inevitable mortal