Quotes About Recognition

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

It really helps to know what success is before you get there, and if you know, then you can head right for it. For some people, it's the most money. For some, it's the most power. For some, it's the most girlfriends. Everybody's got a measure. For me, I guess it's having the respect and admiration of your peers.

To be honored by success is to take your life seriously. To humble-talk about it is to take yourself seriously.

My idea of success is not Oscars. Am I glad I have that little trinket? Yes, I am. But it depends on how you define success. The minute I got my first professional cheque from Joel Schumacher, I was successful. Somebody's paying me to act!

People will find any reason not to give you credit for your success because, in their mind, your success is their failure.

To me, success is how recognisable your face is as an actress or a brand.

Success is something that other people always point out. I don't think one ever thinks of oneself as successful, because if you do, you're going to immediately lose whatever it is that's driving you, aren't you?

Failure is quite easy to handle because no one is looking at you. Success is difficult to keep and not everyone could handle it.

I'm a success story. Everybody from Memphis knows that, that's why don't nobody question it.

The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.

One of the greatest things about my job is that I can enjoy all the successes of a show, but can still go out in public, not like say, Michael Jordan.

I know this is a weird niche, but a lot of my female friends have these strange stories where there their dads have seen the small successes of their daughters and have decided that they are creative as well.

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.

For people to keep saying, 'We want to see more of this guy, even though the shows have not always been out-of-the-box successes,' is a huge compliment to me.

It's hard to criticize someone who's hugely successful.

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

I started to become internationally successful starting at the age of 9.

There's always been a hunger in me not necessarily to be successful, but to be an icon.

I've always strived to be successful, not famous.

I think it's a great time to put out quality work, and it will speak for itself. You don't have to work so hard at being successful at it, because it is something that people want, so when they want it and it is good, then they're going to get it and continue to give it to other people.

I like the idea that people hear my stuff, and if it's commercially successful, that's a good sign that it's being heard.

One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.

I'm very happy that people call me by my first name now. They seem to believe that I'm not just doing this job because my father did. I also hope I will be more successful than my father.

I was coddled, and there is a permissiveness that sometimes goes on with people who are successful as actors.