Quotes About Recognition

I love to see people recognized [me on scene].

It's always nice to have people love the things that you do.

Eventually, I would love to be on my deathbed and looked at as an icon. Right now I'm still at the baby stages of my career. But that is the goal.

We all are imbued with the love of praise.

Jesus recognized that love is greater than like.

Love is recognition, perhaps the highest form of it. You.

I love any kind of recognition because as an actor I'm very hard on myself sometimes.

Thank George Michael for your radical activism in the LGBTQ community! Love you always!

I have no interest in being famous. I'd love to vanish from the public eye as soon as I can.

Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?

People either know Alan Rudolph and love every single one of his films or they don't know him at all.

She thanked him just as

Ramona did not consider herself to be a pest. People who called her a pest did not understand that a littler person sometimes had to be a little bit noisier and a little bit stubborn in order to be noticed at all.

Matt was the only adult who understood Ralph. "Yes, sir, that mouse is a mouse in a million," he often told himself.

It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before.

This wouldn't be so bad, I told myself. But secretly, I knew that I was quite wrong.

It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous.

we all recognize a likeness of Shakespeare the instant we see one, and yet we don't really know what he looked like. It is like this with nearly every aspect of his life and character: He is at once the best known and least known of figures.

The one thing he didn't do was discover the comet that bears his name.

Scheele independently discovered eight elements—chlorine, fluorine, manganese, barium, molybdenum, tungsten, nitrogen, and oxygen—but received credit for none of them in his lifetime. He had an unfortunate habit of tasting every substance he worked with, as a way of familiarizing himself with its properties, and eventually the practice caught up with him.

Although Penzias and Wilson had not been looking for cosmic background radiation, didn't know what it was when they had found it, and hadn't described or interpreted its character in any paper, they received the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics. The Princeton researchers got only sympathy. According to Dennis Overbye in Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos, neither Penzias nor Wilson altogether understood the significance of what they had found until they read about it in the New York Times.

Houses are really quite odd things. They have almost no universally defining qualities: they can be of practically any shape, incorporate virtually any material, be of almost any size. Yet wherever we go in the world we recognize domesticity the moment we see it.

there are three stages in scientific discovery: first, people deny that it is true; then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person. At

Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments." This is the famous study by David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University in New York mentioned a few chapters ago that launched the new science of what we might call Stupidology. It