Quotes About Recognition

I knew what he was thinking. Thanks to Mickey, I had been elevated from child-who-can't-learn-to-swim to child genius. The

We had always known that ours is a small country and that America is very big. But even as a seven-year-old, I was surprised that so many Americans has never noticed us on the map. Perhaps it's like driving a Yugo and realizing that the eighteen-wheeler can's see you.

Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.

I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident that the Southern writer is particularly adept at recognizing the grotesque; and to recognize the grotesque, you have to have some notion of what is not grotesque and why.

Before ye call I shall answer." This means that "every good and perfect gift" is already man's awaiting his recognition.

Chateaubriand said of history: There are two consequences in history: one immediate and instantaneously recognized; the other distant and unperceived at first. These consequences often contradict each other; the former come from our short-run wisdom, the latter from long-run wisdom.

La experiencia común, en los siglos precedentes, era la sorpresa de un extranjero en la ciudad: un rostro desconocido. ¿De dónde viene, qué viene a hacer aquí? Pero hoy en día el anonimato es la norma. Lo sorprendente es reconocer a alguien.

I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.

Since that time Saracen had been making a name for himself. That name was not 'Saracen'. Indeed the name was more along the lines of 'that hell-fowl', 'did-you-see-what-it-did-to-my-leg', 'kill-it-kill-it-there-it-goes' or 'what's-that-chirfugging-goose-done-now'.

It did seem hard to be doing something heroic while everyone was too busy to notice.

She had always known that she was rated less than Howard, the treasured son. Now, however, she knew that she was ranked somewhere below "miscellaneous cuttings.

Kohlrabi's face had no expression at all, and suddenly Mosca could barely recognize him. His face had always seemed so honest, like an unshuttered window through which emotions shone without disguise. Perhaps his expressions had always been a magic-lantern display, a conjurer's trick.

Her face was upside down, but he could still make out her expression, and it filled him with a pang of curiosity. It was so long since he had seen such an expression that it took a while for him to recognize it as pity. Yes, it was true pity, without superiority or disdain. Just pain felt for pain. How strange it looked!

We frequently miss opportunities because we aren't aware of them.

Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.

I never pursued being 'famous.'

Nothing can take the sting off the world's economic problems like watching millionaires present each other golden statues.

Thanksgiving is recognition of a debt that cannot be paid. We express thanks, whether or not we are able otherwise to reimburse the giver.

When thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite "thank you," it is the recognition of dependence.

In the end there will be people who did the work of the Lord. They were busy in the church. They had done many wonderful works. But Jesus Himself says, "I never knew you" [Matthew 7:23 NKJV].

Many Christians would prefer to hear "What a great guy" from the crowd rather than "Well done, good and faithful servant" from the Master [Matthew 25:23].

We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.

And worse than the hurt of not being someone special is the shame of it, the shame of how much I want that, to be someone special.

These days the only time people get to feel appreciated by others or hear something good about themselves is when they're being read their eulogies.