Quotes About Recognition

Feedback for leaders is often nuanced and difficult to deliver. That said, hearing you are passive-aggressive from 10 different people described 10 different ways becomes hard to ignore.

I was never lined up outside of my bosses office saying 'Give me an opportunity; there's not a woman in primetime'... I was just trying to be so good they couldn't ignore me.

People compliment me and if I ignore them, it doesn't mean I'm rude. It just means I'm embarrassed.

Everyone wants to be liked; everyone wants approval. No one likes being ignored.

I don't think women are being sidelined or ignored. If they are talented enough, they will get films. But they need to be more ambitious.

I quite like that people tend not to know my name. I remember being at the Cannes film festival for 'All or Nothing.' I looked very different in the film - I had a little greasy bob and no makeup. I went to a dinner after the screening, and everyone completely ignored me. I got a real buzz out of that.

I'm one of those people who had Christmas and my birthday always combined, and generally, my birthday was pretty much ignored. But my parents are always good about making some kind of special effort to make me feel like I also have a birthday that exists.

If you're talented, you can't be ignored.

Ignoring facts does not make them go away.

America, I am not ignoring you.

I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there.

Nothing has ever become better by ignoring the reality.

Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.

I'm not under any illusion that I'm an A-lister; I don't think I'm even on the alphabet scale. But I'm in people's houses every day - I'm there when they wake up and there when they go to bed. So people think they know who I am. And, to a certain extent, they do.

I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.

When 'Sports Illustrated' came out with their 50 most fashionable people in sport, that fact that I wasn't on that list is a travesty.

Fame legitimizes. Being conspicuous gets confused with being illustrious.

I know very well the difference between my image and who I am.

Well, I don't know what image people have of me.

All these old images of me floating across the screen, the terrible chasm of what you were and what you are. I know who I am, but these people who see me as I was then don't.

Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees.

I never imagined I would have one fan, and there seems to be a few. I just couldn't be happier that people seem to like what I'm doing and seem to respond to it. If they weren't there, I don't know what I'd be doing right now.

I never imagined that I would earn my way into anyone's rafters.

I never imagined that I would see my face on the cover of an EA Sports videogame.