Quotes About Recognition

Please don't say . . . ; 'NO'! to Me, . . . I'm a person worth 'Knowing'!.

Blessed is the servant who esteems himself no better when he is praised and exalted by people than when he is considered worthless, simple, and despicable; for what a man is before God, that he is and nothing more.

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

All the painters who appear in our museums are failures at painting; the only people ever talked about are failures; the world is divided into two categories of people: failures and those unknown.

To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.

It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.

It required attention, openness, humility. It required the recognition that something small could be enough, that something ordinary could be extraordinary.

This is a recurring theme in schools: if you are quiet, well-behaved and fairly bright you will be ignored, whereas if you are a lunatic who shuts up for five minutes you will be handsomely rewarded. #

Oh. My. God.' she said, pointing out of the window. 'Do you know what that is?' I nodded and said, 'I think I may have seen it before.' 'That,' said Florida, 'is the Moonyouidiot.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

I wanted to do something decent at last, and I wanted to be rewarded for my decency. p 284

It's cool to be recognised by your peers.

One day they'll wake up and realize that we were right about everything all along.

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

Man's desire to be remembered is colossal.

Experience is that marvellous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

In other words, what is salient to us—such as our own facial features—may not be salient to other species.

Language-trained apes often give the impression that they regard themselves as almost human, such as when, while sorting pictures of humans from those of other animals, they put their own portrait on the human pile. They obviously sympathize with the people that surround them: they want to fit in, and to be like them.

True empathy is not self-focused but other-oriented. Instead of making humanity the measure of all things, we need to evaluate other species by what they are.

T]he term 'nonhuman' grates on me, since it lumps millions of species together by an absence, as if they were missing something. Poor things, they are nonhuman! When students embrace this jargon in their writing, I cannot resist sarcastic corrections in the margin saying that for completeness's sake, they should add that the animals they are talking about are also nonpenguin, nonhyena, and a whole lot more.

Recognition of this parallel between anatomy and behavior was a great leap forward, which is nowadays taken for granted.

Man is human only to the extent to which he tries to impose himself on another man in order to be recognized by him. As long as he has not been effectively recognized by the other, it is this other who remains the focus of his actions. His human worth and reality depend on this other and on his recognition by the other. It is in this other that the meaning of his life is condensed.