Quotes About Recognition

Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. If one recognizes the difference and prepares oneself - it is extraordinarily brave. Because when it comes to certain human miseries, the only witnesses should be the pavement and maybe the trees. (Gareth van Meer)

Dr. P. was diagnosed with a massive tumor in the parts of his brain involved in integrating visual sensory information and binding it into a whole scene. It is this "binding" capacity that allows us to recognize the sum of the parts as a person or a fire hydrant or a hat. Like other patients with this problem, Dr. P. could easily identify individual sensory stimuli but had lost the visual processing circuitry that binds these separate features into a recognizable whole.

The other members of Queen wrote songs – often great songs – but it was Freddie who sold them.

Some people say cats don't need a name. ...... But I say you need to give a cat a name, if only so they can have the pleasure of ignoring it. If that makes sense. from The Familiar vol. 3

the first step toward the one true God is to acknowledge that we are not that God.

And it was strange because he was calling, Christopher. . . ? Christopher. . . ? and I could see my name written out as he was saying it. Often I can see what someone is saying written out like it is being printed on a computer screen, especially if they are in another room. But this was not on a computer screen. I could see it written really large, like it was on a big advert on the side of a bus. And it was in my mother's handwriting

He wanted to make her feel good. She couldn't remember the last time someone had done that. He

For the first time in his life, he felt exactly what he was, and he was not impressed.

In every age, people are certain that only the things they have deemed valuable have true value.

Often the inventor that history remembers is not the true inventor, but the one who made the idea commercially successful. Thomas Edison didn't invent the lightbulb either.

I had tried so hard to please that I never realized no one was watching.

I tried so hard to please that I never realized no one is watching.

As churches and leaders in regions start to recognize our unique contributions, there will be less jealousy and competition. Instead, we will see more cooperation and recognition as we cheer each other on.

Many writers vacillate between believing writing is its own reward, and the need for acceptance is the big reward.

The Nobel Institute had nothing to say about him, other than that he had never won a Nobel Prize.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Seeing is of course very much a matter of verbalization. Unless I call my attention to what passes before my eyes, I simply won't see it. It is, as Ruskin says, 'not merely unnoticed, but in the full, clear sense of the word, unseen.' . . . I have to say the words, describe what I'm seeing. . . . But if I want to notice the lesser cataclysms of valley life, I have to maintain in my head a running description of the present.

Because a great many otherwise admirable men do not read books American women write, I wanted to use a decidedly male pseudonym. When Harper's magazine took a chapter, and then Atlantic Monthly, I was so tickled I used my real name, and the jig was pretty much up.

Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.

I wish people would think of me as a musician who writes novels, instead of a novelist who writes music on the side.

Even then I did not recognise the quest for power.

Zouch was a superman. A fair English equivalent of the Teutonic ideal of the Übermensch . No one knew this yet except himself. That was because he had not been one long enough for people to find out. They would learn all in good time; and to their cost.

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy." —HENRY DAVID THOREAU

The law of familiarity says that if we are around anything (or anyone) long enough, we tend to take things just a little bit for granted.