Quotes About Recognition

I'm quite content with who I am and what I do. You might get someone in your local Tesco who might know who you are. But not really. To think you couldn't do those simple things, I'd say I'd probably crave them quite a lot.

I'm not famous; I am simply very well-known to certain people. Famous is something different.

Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time.

The bottom line is, when it comes to an actor and his performance, whether nominated or not, it simply has to do with whether that character had enough resonance with the audience. You know, to the filmgoers. And that something that you can't control.

The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.

The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

THE HUMAN CONDITION The Daily Show reported recently that scientists in Japan had invented a robot that is capable of recognizing its own reflection in a mirror. When the robot learns to hate what it sees, said Jon Stewart, it will have achieved full humanity.

Nobody knew I was done. Nobody cared. But I knew. I felt like a dragon I'd been fighting all my life had just dropped dead at my feet and gasped out its last sulfuric breath. Rest in peace, motherfucker.

We get ourselves in trouble because it's a cheap way to get attention. Trouble is a faux form of fame.

professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment.

Every critic, every detractor, will have to bow down to President Trump. —Omarosa Manigault

I did not think them perfect; no man may be a hero to his valet or political consultant.

There is no limit to what can be achieved as long as no one cares who gets the credit'?

I believe you dropped something

Memory is subject to a filtering process that we don't always recognize and can't always control. We remember what we can bear and we block what we cannot.

a man's power is not only what he knows it to be, but also what others think it to be.

She'd thought she was memorable. How clear it was that she was not. It wasn't a quality you possessed, she thought now. It was a quality other people endowed you with.

When mauma saw my raw eyes, she said, "Ain't nobody can write down in a book what you worth.

How often do we do that, he wondered--look at someone and fail to see what's really there?

The awakening passed from simple recognition of my need for God at the center of my life, to a depth where the will is stirred And that is a deeper place by far. That is the place of response, of unifying one's heart, mind, soul and feet around a decision.

When we adopt this particular ego mask, we invest ourselves in the notion that those who shine the brightest are loved the most. This comes from the distorted idea that meaning and acceptance come from what we do, not who we are. We buy into the widespread notion that "light" emanates from our achievements, not from the divine fire within our soul.

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We can't change anything until we acknowledge the problem.