Quotes About Recognition

He leaves in the background of fame all other navigators whose names are written in the priceless annals of discovery.

It's always a little mind-boggling to realize that these famous actors know who I am.

I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there 's a pair of us—don't tell! They 'd banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog!

Some inquire from genuine love of knowledge, or from a real wish to improve what they ask about; others to see their name in the papers.

The world knows what you seem; it does not know what you are.

People Donnot Recognise Someone Importance Until His Death.

All you have to do is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing.

It is only the thinnest surface layer of law and custom, belief and sentiment, which can either be successfully subjected to destructive treatment, or become the nucleus of any new growth—a fact which explains the apparent paradox that so many of our most famous advances in political wisdom are nothing more than the formal recognition of our political impotence.

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Glory is a poison, good to be taken only in small doses.

Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic.

Thanks so much for seeing, the first time you met us, that even though we're like ghosts, the two of us, even though we're not supposed to exist, we are alive.

Se anche solo per un istante pensavo di essere strana, gli occhi di mia madre mi guardavano da sopra gli occhiali, e come due puntine da disegno mi fissavano saldamente al mio posto nel mondo.

Was genau macht das Wiedererkennen, die Identität einer bestimmten Person in unseren Augen aus?

Ogni persona è unica. È la cosa più importante di tutte, eppure troppo spesso ce ne dimentichiamo

Let's have no beating about the bush. Not every yahoo in a first-night seat is my peer.

A guilty system recognizes no innocents.

With the whole supermodel thing, even when you're not really modeling anymore people still call me that. And I'm like "...retired."

A lot of people think that scuttling around stencilling images onto buildings in the middle of the night is the action of a sad, frustrated individual who can't get attention or recognition any other way. They might be right, but I've done gallery shows and, if you've been hitting on people with all sorts of images in all sorts of places, they're a real step backwards, painting the streets means becoming an actual part of the city. It's not a spectator sport.

I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said, 'That's clever. It's an anagram of art,' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along.

The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a shit.

If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn't matter how great you were, it'll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.

Nobody ever listened to me until they didn't know who I was.