Quotes About Recognition

He met my eyes-only for a moment, but enough that I knew we saw each other, as we so rarely did, plainly.

Maybe that was one positive thing about going through bad stuff. You knew good stuff when you saw it.

Is this all we've got now? No priests to say yes son, your suffering meant something, no kings on the battlefield to say yes soldier, your suffering meant something.

In my view, the recognition that a person has distorted thinking that comes from or produces suffering is important, but it has no inherent implication for action. It doesn't imply medication, incarceration, or any particular brand of treatment. It just means stating openly that an internal conflict is not being resolved, is instead being expressed externally, and that those who did not cause the pain will be the ones to be blamed and to pay for it.

When I think about moving forward, in mutual recognition, towards resolution, I think about the word agreement. Not that we would hold the same views, but rather that we would communicate enough to agree on what each of our different views actually are.

Just as unresolved, formerly subordinated or traumatized individuals can collude with or identify with bullies, so can unresolved, formerly subordinated or traumatized groups of people identify with the supremacy of the state. In both cases, the lack of recognition that the past is not the present leads to the newly acquired power to punish rather than to the self-transformation necessary to resolve conflict and produce justice.

Like all the living and the dead, I think I see him everywhere, but it is just new versions, young versions of guys like Stan. Most of us seem to be recreated every fifteen years. I see a twenty-year-old me almost once a month, and a twenty-year-old, forty-year-old, sixty-year-old Stan passes by on the street often enough.

How terrible it is to recognize that one's brilliance rests solely upon the small-mindedness of others.

I knew that Kitty and I felt just the same- only, of course, about different things. I should have remembered this, later.

When I see her,' I said, 'it's like - I don't know what it's like. It's like I never saw anything at all before.

Sister Joan explained that this can mean having to shut down everything that has previously formed you, if required. To be a prophet is not self-serving and often means working in isolation with little recognition. "You're an agitator in a time of complacency." You do what has to be done precisely because no one else is doing it.

Many women feel that no matter how competent others think they are, or no matter how much they achieve, they are really just fooling everyone.

Cancer is a sneaky animal. It starts right in the middle of normal cells so that our immune system does not recognize it and destroy it

Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans? I'd be glad to read him.

being published' is not the same as being a real writer.

Hard work is rewarding. Taking credit for other people's hard work is rewarding and faster.

In this age, being seen as an "expert" may have little bearing on the "expert's" ability to do the thing she is supposedly an expert in.

When there is a healthy system for recognizing, responding to, and learning from mistakes, over time fewer of them tend to happen

Ashes keep drifting onto my paper, charcoal snowflakes on a minefield of blanks, words bouncing around off each other uttering impotent images of sight sound terror life crying for recognition, narcissistic eunuchs reflecting my face, ruining the snowfield.

I just feel like if I do good work, then people should respect me for the work I do.

Too often I see performances that aren't rooted in truth. Oftentimes, those are performances that tend to win awards.

If you don't quote yourself, nobody else will. And you can quote me on that.

Look for us in history books and you'll find us in the margins. Look for us in legends, and you might just find us celebrated.

This is where you and I are headed.... Look for us in history books and you'll find us in the margins. Look for us in legends and you might just find us celebrated