Quotes About Recognition

You want to be commercially successful and critically acclaimed. But the truth is, there's only a few Bruce Springsteens and Paul McCartneys out there.

if i dont want to be known, i cannot be known.the best actor can divide role from self.the best liar can divide truth from falsity.

You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.

It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.

To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle, When in fact you haven't of late, can do no harm.

It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.

When you have money in hand, only you forget who are you .But when you do not have any money in your hand, the whole world forget who you are.It's life.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed in the second it is opposed in the third it is regarded as self-evident.

Be with people who know your VALUE not your PRICE

Maybe it's just that some of us have had certain facts and truths slapped up against our heads so hard and so often that we have to see them and pay our respects to their reality.

It takes one to know one, be careful what you say of others.

Nobody will ever tell you who praised you but everybody would like to be the first to tell you who criticized you.

The beauty of being a woman, as the French say, "of a certain age", is that I can be invisible. Young people, both men and women, look right through me, unless I make the effort to be noticed.

Somebody knows.

The accent was of so weird a lilt that at first Steerpike could not recognize more than one sentence in three, but he had quickly attuned himself to the original cadence and as the words fell into place Steerpike realized that he was staring at a poet.

His service to the family was honoured by a certain artificial equality of status.

The USO called him their fair-haired boy. But it had all been after the war was over

People in concert crowds were not used to being noticed and singled out by a band—it was as if the television set had started talking back to them.

People got this idea that ultimately what mattered was the quality of what you were doing and how much importance you gave to it, regardless of how widespread it became or how many records it sold.

says Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo. "People got this idea that ultimately what mattered was the quality of what you were doing and how much importance you gave to it, regardless of how widespread it became or how many records it sold.

He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.

I really ought to have recognized it for what it was and, perhaps, to have stopped right there - for it was nostalgia, and what inspires nostalgia has been dead a long time

If only there were a game whose winning required a gift for the identification of missed opportunities and of things lost and irrecoverable, a knack for the belated recognition of truths, for the exploitation of chances in imagination after it's too late!

It was him, thirty years too old, twenty pounds too light, & forty watts too dim maybe, but him.