Quotes About Recognition

You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." "Frequently." "How often?" "Well, some hundreds of times." "Then how many are there?" "How many? I don't know." "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen.

knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius, and

a conjurer gets no credit once he has explained his trick;

Some times you have to look hard at something to see its value

we were forced to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like untamed beasts in a cage.

how the deuce did he know that I had come from Afghanistan?

faces. Perhaps I had best

La mediocridad no conoce nada más allá de ella, pero el talento instantáneamente reconoce a los genios.

How are you, Watson?" said he, cordially. "I should never have known you under that moustache

La mediocridad no reconoce nada por encima de sí misma, pero el talento reconoce al genio al instante

If they cannot deny it, they will probably ignore it.

You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. For example, you

Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.

I knew he noticed the tress, and the mud, and the children in the street, but I had no reason to believe he'd ever notice me.

Otrpjet ?u napore školovanja, otrpjet ?u sve muke, samo neka mi se pruži prilika privu?i pozornost muškarca kao što je predsjednik.

some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.

That's the only thing that matters, honey, for someone to see more in you than you thought there was to see.

Te veel kennis over onszelf doen we op uit de blikken van anderen. Wij vertrouwen eerder op hoe wij gezien worden dan op hoe wij onszelf zien.

That, darling, is the only thing that counts for someone to see more in you than you ever imagined was there.

Discovery often means simply the uncovering of something which has always been there but was hidden from the eye by the blinkers of habit.

Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm just what I am, that's all.

I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?

Would a musician feel flattered by the loud applause of an audience if he knew that they were nearly all deaf, and that, to conceal their infirmity, they set to work to clap vigorously as soon as ever they saw one or two persons applauding?

Whoever attaches great importance to the opinions of people pays them too much honour.