Quotes About Recognition

I don't care what you think as long as it's about me.

Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.

Angels die? It's a frightening-miracle because here they are. The Upper God has let them drop like centuries into space. And I recognize them!

This should remind us to value the many people whose jobs do not generate huge incomes but are worthwhile, essential, even noble—from scholars and teachers to janitors and street cleaners. The market may not reward them, but we should respect them.

I became famous almost before I had a craft.

Listen. Sarah wore a black wig that could have easily been mistaken for your own hair. You told me she said the rapist went wild after he pulled off the wig. Of course he'd become unglued. At that point he realized that he had the wrong woman.

E che volete che venga a fare? Per vedere l'elefante di piazza del Duomo? Voialtri vi siete fitto in capo che questa sia una città, e non volete capire che invece è un miserabile paesuccio ignorato nel resto del mondo. Donn'Isabella, dite voi: quando mai l'avete udito nominare, fuori?...»

Employees respect a boss who knows the difference between the mundane and the exceptional. Remember that not all employees respond well to incentive bonuses or a dangled carrot of any kind. They seek recognition, not bribery. 7.

Even young children know what you get when you pay peanuts. Monkeys!

Marena," he said with an effort, "Marena...." He did not recognize her. His voice failed.

Mother put on her serious face. "I can't stand idly by and watch the country go down the Swannee. The political arena is the only logical and reasonable course left open to any decent Irish patriot. Besides, last night the cumann nominated me to contest the seat left vacant by the death of Dinny Blackstone who has represented the area in the Dail for twenty years. Who am I to argue?" "Sure he's been dead for at least ten years," Rory said. "It's a wonder that anyone finally noticed.

The Underground Railroad was, in many ways, a seminal movement in American history, one that deserves far more recognition than it has received. It was a kind of prelude to the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and it offered lessons in social activism, political resistance, and moral courage that continue to inspire Americans today.

Que es exactamente lo que mi madre no desea: que su sufrimiento y el de sus hijos le sirva de material a un escritor para que componga su libro o al director de cine para que ruede su película, y los aplaudan después, y ganen premios, mientras nosotros seguimos con nuestra tragedia a cuestas.

Porque así como la libertad está siempre limitada por la libertad de los demás, así, también, la nacionalidad propia está definida y restringida por las otras nacionalidades. Yo vuelvo a ser lo que había olvidado que soy cuando el otro afirma ante mí su otredad

1980s and declared "I'm very happy to be in Bolivia," it seemed to confirm all of our worst fears. Nothing stung Brazilian sensibilities more than not being properly recognized by the bigger and much richer continental giant in the hemisphere.

Most of the time fame is nothing more than a product of commerce, and has nothing to do with literary quality.

A veces se hacía presente con un silbido, que decía algo así como «Fufichu». Si en un momento dado no sabía quién estaba en la casa gritaba: «¡Alguno!» Pero con el correr del tiempo alguno se volvió nadie, y cerrados nuestros oídos a sus palabras nadie volvió a hacerle caso. La voz mandona de Lía sólo la oyeron entonces las paredes. O las vecinas.

We knew the time would come that we'd have to step down because we'd been winning Oscars for 15 years. I discovered this one day when I got home, my mother was reading a newspaper and she said, 'Again? What are you doing in the papers?' And I realized if my mother thought that of me, what would my enemies think?

In my early days, I copied the great French chefs, like most chefs do. Copying is not bad. Copying and not recognizing that you are copying is bad. For me, when I go to a restaurant and am served a dish influenced by something we created at elBulli, if it's well done, it makes me extremely happy.

The more highly we think of ourselves, the sorrier we feel for ourselves when we do not get what we know we deserve.

There was no point in anything. No pleasure in being good and clever either, if there was no one to praise and be proud of me. But that felt dangerously close to self-pity, and I would not give in to self-pity.

We look at each other with shy relief. It's the look two odd socks give when they recognise each other in the wild.

you cow,' Estelle added. 'I heard that.' 'Give the woman the geriatric audiology medal,' Estelle said. 'I heard that, too', her mother said, from the other side of the door.

It's the look two odd socks give when they recognise each other in the wild.