Quotes About Recognition

The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it.

Federación es unión de soberanías independientes, para formar entre ellas un Estado, que reconocía esas soberanías previas.

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

We protest against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause.

For how few ambitious men are there, who have got as much fame as they desired, and whose thirst after it has not been as eager in the very height of their reputation, as it was before they became known and eminent among men?

The eye identifies itself not with the body it belongs to but with the object of its attention.

Judge: And what is your occupation in general? Brodsky: Poet, poet-translator. Judge: And who recognized you to be a poet? Who put you in the ranks of poet? Brodsky: No one. And who put me in the ranks of humanity? Judge: Did you study it?...How to be a poet? Did you attempt to finish an insitute of higher learning...where they prepare...teach Brodsky: I did not think that it is given to one by education. Judge: By what then? Brodsky: I think that it is from God.

I would like to thank everyone who is mentioned in this book for being part of the story of our relationship, particularly Mike's parents, Sharron and Bill Herbert. I am grateful, as well, to Toby Johnson for his insightful comments

I'm pretty insistent about taking blame when it's deserved; I'm less concerned about claiming credit." DeWitt

Concerto soloists need applause. Though virtue is said to be its own reward, no one ever said that about virtuosity.

Of all the will toward the ideal in mankind only a small part can manifest itself in public action. All the rest of this force must be content with small and obscure deeds. The sum of these, however, is a thousand times stronger than the acts of those who receive wide public recognition. The latter, compared to the former, are like the foam on the waves of a deep ocean.

For example, the easiest way to identify which emotion you are feeling is to label it verbally as fear, anger, love, or disgust. Some even insist that you don't really know what you are feeling until you have labeled it.

painful difficulty about happiness is that we so rarely notice its arrival.

A painful difficulty about happiness is that we so rarely notice its arrival.

They had no previous connection whatever with Connemara; but they saw connections where others who should have seen them simply looked the other way.

Truly the angels are come among us every day. Our difficulty is so often that in our vanity and worldliness we so utterly fail to recognise them for what they are.

I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the great outcomes were but randomly connected to our endeavors, that life was beyond mending, that love was loss, that nothing worth saying was sayable, that dullness was general, that disintegration was irresistible.

tortoiseshell is Sparrow Fur." "We like having names," Pebble Heart informed Gray Wing, giving

I'm starting to think there's something familiar about this fake Bramblestar," she murmured. "But I can't quite put my paw on what it is, or who it might actually be. I do know one thing, though," she added, meeting Shadowsight's concerned

Hey, Frankie!" he called. "Benny is black and white, right? Could this be his?

Yes, Black Eye. I remember," said Snap. "He had a—" "Let me guess," Lucky interrupted. "A black patch of fur around one eye?" Snap cocked her head, perplexed. "How did you know?

Twigpaw, from this moment you will be known as Twigbranch.

Her heart ached as she recognized Frogleap. She could only stare at him wordlessly and he purred, his starlit eyes filled with affection. "With this life, I give you devotion," he whispered. "Because you are devoted to your Clan." Then he touched her head and she felt water press around her, crushing her until she could barely breathe.

Don't I know you?" the ThunderClan leader murmured. "I thought I knew a promising young warrior once. . . . He looked a lot like you.