Quotes About Recognition

So many rich people, when they get into philanthropy, they have one thing they like, or several things they focus on. They pick a disease or a college or some kind of non-profit. They produce good results through that cause, but also they get recognized; there's some sort of monument to what they did.

That's what you want to do, is get recognized for accomplishments you've had on the field, not off the field. That's always my goal, to find ways to do that.

It would be better to be recognized first for music, but people go with what they like. If I'm here because I'm recognized more so as a style icon, then, if I'm smart enough, I will use this opportunity to share more insight about my music.

To be recognized and accepted by my musical peers is truly an honor.

The focus has to be about making good work. I don't ever want to be hired for a job because I'm a woman. And I don't ever want to be recognized for a job because I'm a woman.

I have the ability to move around without being recognized all the time. I mean, you want to be famous - but not too famous.

Imagine the day when girls everywhere won't have to fight for the right to be recognized for their great work or their contributions to society.

Committed and loving gay and lesbian couples deserve to have their love, their relationships, and their families recognized like everyone else.

It is one thing to be successful on the field, but to be recognized for something off-field is a completely different and inspiring feeling.

We hadn't met anyone else as ambitious as us. We immediately recognized each other's drive.

No, I'm not recognized in London. What would people recognize?

Before, it had been fame, and then super-fame came. And then it became super-super-fame. One loses one's personal life, really; you're recognized everywhere. But I embraced that.

Jeezy just recognized my grind, and I jumped on board with him to enhance it. Artistically, we're in the same mind frame. We come from very similar backgrounds - poverty. That's something that we can both relate to, something that we can convey in our music.

If I were ever in a position to appear more for ROH, I would accept nothing less than to be recognized as the best - which would mean having to challenge the top dogs/champions.

I have an ego like everyone else. I want to be recognized as a good ballplayer.

When I moved to New York City to go college, my mother said, 'If you want to be recognized, you need to go out to a club.' Because we didn't have computers. We didn't have social media. We didn't even have cellphones. So you had to go out to be recognized.

It's crazy to think about getting recognized for something you just love to do.

Owners never paid my salary. I always recognized that it was the people in the seats who did. I always wanted to give my best.

Does anybody like being recognized? I understand that it's my job. I'm grateful about people who are moved enough by the work to want to say something. But I mourn the loss of anonymity.

Individuals are complex and deserve to be recognized as such.

I can finish a show and walk through the audience without being recognized.

When I was in high school and first starting to drive by myself, I listened to Wu Tang in the car, and I recognized their soul and R&B roots.

People have become obsessed with the greed of celebrity and self-branding and wanting to be known and recognized and succeed in some way, and they're not prepared to share and help each other.

The 1898 annexation of the Hawaiian Islands merely formally recognized what had long been American domination.