Quotes About Recognition

People call me Joey all the time. I take it as a compliment. There's no point in correcting them. But I'm much more even-keeled and subdued and relaxed than Joey Tribbiani.

So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time.

You didn't," John said, stepping from the shadows as he clapped for me, "even hit your head this time.

If you can make your name and your works very famous and at the same time can succeed in making yourself much unknown, you are definitely the most intelligent celebrity!

By the time the Oscars are on I'll be seventy. How many more chances am I going to have to get nominated for an Oscar?

. . .I really ought to have recognized it for what it was and, perhaps, to have stopped right there - for it was nostalgia, and what inspires nostalgia has been dead a long time

Any time you audition and get it, you earned it.

If I wear make-up, then people recognise me, but the rest of the time, no one really bothers.

I have a hard time really claiming my place as a songwriter or as doing anything of import really because I feel like I'm tooting my own horn in a way.

Some period of time later you look up and say, "That concern was right on the mark; it happened exactly as I thought it would." So that's been really helpful to recognize.

I don't think you're going to get nominated every time you jump out of the box.

Time has come to show India's strength to the world. Lets recognise our demographic dividend & present image of a Skilled India to the world.

The only place I am recognized all the time is in L.A. and otherwise, it's only about once a day. I feel pretty anonymous.

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel they have not said enough.

What's your name? Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer. That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you? Yes

We can't all be heros because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.

She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing—and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite — that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. But for the Civil War, Lincoln and Grant and Sherman and Sheridan would not have been discovered, nor have risen into notice.

It had borne the burden, it had earned the honor"—