Quotes About Recognition

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. Doyle

O que você traz neste mundo não tem nenhuma importância - replicou meu companheiro com amargura. - A questão é o que os outros acreditam que você fez.

Lost in his own world half the time, and tormented by devils the other half. Sometimes he's so far gone he doesn't recognize his own name.

One can only discover what has already come into existence.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

you'd think my own face would know me...

Am I the public conscience? Expected always to say in cold words what the rest of them are too arrogant to recognise?

Meh onu umeh khayeynu—what do folks like us count? Moshul kekheres hanishbor—we're just so much scrap in their eyes. Except that real scrap isn't thrown away so easily …

My father had a good reputation. Not that anyone ever thought of it when he was alive.

As a fourth-line winger, I'm nearly invisible. Sure, Coach Estleman knows my name. It's Tyler Watson. He understands my style of play. He knows what to expect from me on the ice. Other than that, I tend to fade into the background for him.

No one who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.

no one who still shares a delusion will ever recognize it as such.

Children do not as yet recognize or, at any rate, lay such exaggerated stress upon the gulf that separates human beings from the animal world.

Man seems not to have been endowed, or to have been endowed to only a very small degree, with an instinctive recognition of the dangers that threaten him from without.

a moment in which we took into account everything we had, and appreciated it all, and felt blessed

Why is it that animals instantly recognize the human beings who find them most repellent, and immediately focus all their attention on those poor unfortunates?

I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there.

French listening posts learned to recognize a radio operator's fist. Once encrypted, a message is sent in Morse code, as a series of dots and dashes, and each operator can be identified by his pauses, the speed of transmission, and the relative lengths of dots and dashes. A fist is the equivalent of a recognizable style of handwriting.

For decades, ENIAC, not Colossus, was considered the mother of all computers.

I told Ron to take my name off the paper," recalls Adleman. "I told him that it was his invention, not mine. But Ron refused and we got into a discussion about it.

And that was about all that he really wished the world to know about himself. "I am a nobody," he would write toward the end of the century, when fame had begun to creep up on him. "Treat me as a solar myth, or an echo, or an irrational quantity, or ignore me altogether." But

Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.

A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison.

Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms...