Quotes About Recognition

Ten years from now, her mother might not even recognize her. Already she was different, but the day would come when she'd be this person her mother had never seen. There would be other people - someone like Carolyn or Alan, or even Violet - who had known her longer than her mother ever did.

We become addicted to approval when we base our self-worth on how people treat us or on what we believe they think about us.

Desarrolle el hábito de reconocer a Dios en todos sus caminos, y entonces Él dirigirá sus pasos (Proverbios 3: 6).

My scent's all over you. It's inside of you. That's how my people will know who your mate is. It's also a warning.

Their eyes met; neither would forget.

That's the greatest thing about comedy. If you've got talent, it's unmistakable. No one misses it and you don't have to wait around for a break. It's very easy to get a break. It's very hard to be good enough.

You do not recognize what truth is, so you call it a trick. That is why you are not wise, Jenna Zan Arbor. Wisdom is something you cannot identify because you cannot measure it with your instruments. - Qui-Gon Jinn

L'incapacité à reconnaître les processus culturels spécifiques de l'oppression de genre elle-même n'est-elle pas une forme d'impérialisme épistémologique?

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

How do you expect to keep our seeing each other a secret? You've been all over the news here for years. People will recognize you wherever you go. I won't be recognized, but you will. You're America's corporate sex symbol; you're the one whose motto is If it moves, take it to bed. Matt and Meredith

Lisa, have you ever met anyone and then known within minutes that he's the most special person you're ever going to meet in your life?

difference that is prized but unprivileged,

To recognize our many selves is to understand the vast social construction that is not only the individual, but history itself, the present as history. A radical democratic politics must invite us to comprehend this.

Do we all buzz or ring or light up when people press our vanity buttons, and only then? Can I think of anyone in my whole life whom I have liked without his first showing signs of liking me?

Drama demands the reversal of expectation, but in such a way that the first surprise is followed by an immediate recognition of inevitability.

Drama demands the reversal of expectation, but in such a way that the first surprise is followed by an immediate recognition of inevitability. And inevitability takes careful pin-setting.

You hear what the dean said about Jesus Christ? 'Sure He's a good teacher, but what's He published?

She studied it soberly, with something like recognition or acknowledgment in her eyes, as if those who have been dead understand things that will never be understood by those who have only lived.

It is strange to find ourselves people of consequence.

Drama demands the reversal of expectation, but in such a way that the first surprise is followed by an immediate recognition of inevitability. And inevitability takes careful pin-setting. Since

We can't tell who first had an idea; we can only tell who first had it influentially, who formulated it in a striking way and left it in some form, poem or equation or picture, that others could stumble upon with the shock of recognition. The radical ideas that have been changing our attitudes toward our habitat have been around forever.

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict cannot be resolved until the human rights of the other are recognized and guaranteed.

One of the things that economics brings to the analysis is explicit recognition that people will not engage in activities—including racial discrimination—no matter what the cost.