Quotes About Recognition

a face you know intimately is most disturbingly altered when it's altered only slightly;

Whatever we think of particular poems, "poetry" is a word for the meeting place of the private and the public, the internal and the external: My capacity to express myself poetically and to comprehend such expression is a fundamental qualification for public recognition.

Famous in Topeka" would be a great name for a band)

The power of it was all finally there, finally real for me.

By the end of 1946 Philby had achieved something no other spy could boast: the award of three separate medals from nationalist Spain, the communist Soviet Union, and Britain.

Something struck us as wrong, which only meant that we had not thought of it ourselves.

He saw the firm's success as a personal validation.

did not want journalists to spot me.

I had presided at similar events many times but wasn't used to being on the receiving end of so many kind remarks.

but the place had a familiar feel.

I knew this award-giving was premature. I hadn't been in the job long enough to point to any real accomplishments.

Authoritarians rarely recognize their own authoritarianism. To them, authoritarianism looks like simple virtue.

We chase wild dreams and long for all that eludes us, when the greatest joys are within our grasp, if we can only recognize them.

It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous.

There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!

It's always the same thing: People are always out there doing really good work, both young bands who never get heard for one reason or another, and older bands that aren't getting played because maybe they're not current. And it's always wrong. It's wrong on all levels, so I don't know what you do about it. It is what it is.

If you were damned certain you weren't looking for something, there was a very good chance you wouldn't see it.

It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.

I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.

Applause waits on success.

Eighth and lastly. They are so grateful!!

I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his Works respectfully quoted by other learned Authors.

Women are books, and men the readers be...

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.