Quotes About Recognition

It remains an irrefragable law of history that contemporaries are denied a recognition of the early beginnings of the great movements which determine their times.

No me reconociste, ni entonces ni en ningún otro momento, nunca me has reconocido. ¿Cómo te puedo describir, querido, la decepción de aquel instante? Por primera vez fui consciente de estar predestinada a que no me reconocieras durante toda mi vida

The Minister-President or the richest magnate could walk the streets of Vienna without anyone turning around, but a court actor or an opera singer was recognized by every salesgirl and every cabdriver.

Aber wie sollte ein so rascher Ruhm nicht einen so leeren Kopf beduseln? (...) Und dann, ist es nicht eigentlich verflucht leicht, sich für einen großen Menschen zu halten, wenn man nicht mit der leisesten Ahnung belastet ist, daß ein Rembrandt, ein Beethoven, ein Dante, ein Napoleon je gelebt haben?

Yeryüzünde hiçbir ÅŸey kuytulardaki bir çocuÄŸun fark edilmeyen sevgisiyle kar??laÅŸt?r?lamaz.

Früher hatte der Mensch nur einen Körper und eine Seele. Heute braucht er noch einen Pass dazu, sonst wird er nicht wie ein Mensch behandelt.

again and again we fall hopelessly into the foolish error of thinking that Nature sets a special stamp on outstanding individuals so that they may be recognized at a glance.

C'était la première fois que je souffrais de ce sort de n'être pas reconnue de toi, ce sort qu'une vie entière j'ai subi et avec lequel je m'en vais; inconnue, toujours inconnue à tes yeux

She could not be said to dislike Colonel Trumpet so much as not to notice he was there.

Recognizing isn't at all like seeing; the two often don't even agree.

We don't see the world as a botanist who is at the same time an architect, a physician, a geologist, and a ship's captain. Recognizing isn't at all like seeing; the two often don't even agree...

To recognize someone, you had to first know them.

I thought that was you.

Evelyn was twenty-six, and for the first time in her life, she was seen. Recognized. It wasn't that heads were turning--she wouldn't ask that much--but just for a moment, one man would hold her gaze a little longer than he should. Or a woman's eyes would flick over her dress with jealousy. She could now be a missed connection on Craigslist, a fragment in a song lyric, the inspiration for a girl in a musical.

Adults raised in a narcissistic homes cling to the fantasy that they can somehow manipulate or control their parent/family of origin system to get the recognition and approval they require (that is, to get their needs met.) They had this fantasy as children, and they maintain it as adults. The reality, though, is that they had little control over their parent system as children and have little control over it now.

To the flow of recognition between my 'I' and your 'you' I bring my desires, my prejudices, and the force of my needs—conscious and unconscious—to the 'evidence' before me. In doing this, I create my own version of you. What this adds up to is that you are a somewhat different other for each person with whom you have contact.

It took me years and years of trial efforts to work out that there is absolutely no knitting triumph I can achieve that my husband will think is worth being woken up for.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.

Who you are, in truth, who everyone is, is whole and perfect and beautiful. And if that can be recognized, then it is possible that self-torture can stop!

I've heard that the soul often recognizes truth when it hears it, even if the mind does not.

It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first.

An open society calls itself open to improvement. It is based on the recognition that people have divergent views and interests, and that nobody is in possession of the ultimate truth.