Quotes About Recognition

Grudging praise is the most flattering of all.

It seems to me we do ourselves a disservice when we over-praise a talent. It feels good to praise and idealize, but then we risk making art inaccessible to those who aspire.

There was no way to solve a problem for people who didn't know they had one.

No ID, no person

You were right, said the Master impressed by the neatness of Korovyov's work, when you said: no documents, no person. So that means I don't exist since I don't have any documents.

No documents, no person.

The dog rose on his hind legs in front of Philip Philipovich and performed obeisance to him.

What do you wish And was astonished, not recognizing his own voice. And what was said in a treble; the do you in a basso; and wish did not come out at all. (85)

Just imagine living in a world without mirrors. You'd dream about your face and imagine it as an outer reflection of what is inside you. And then, when you reached forty, someone put a mirror before you for the first time in your life. Imagine your fright! You'd see the face of a stranger. And you'd know quite clearly what you are unable to grasp: your face is not you.

Bacon's portraits are an interrogation on the limits of the self. Up to what degree of distortion does an individual still remain himself? To what degree of distortion does a beloved person still remain a beloved person? For how long does a cherished face growing remote through illness, through madness, through hatred, through death still remain recognizable? Where is the border beyond which a self ceases to be a self?

Tamina feels that the eyes of a single outsider are enough to destroy the worth of her personal diaries, while Goethe thinks that if a single individual fails to set eyes on his lines, that individual calls his–Goethe's–entire existence into question. The difference between Tamina and Goethe is the difference between human being and writer.

humor can only exist when people are still capable of recognizing some border between the important and the unimportant. and nowadays this border has become unrecognizable.

Not every woman was worthy of being called a woman.

He goes on reading, and remembers nothing. So what has this stranger come to tell him? To remind him that he used to live here under Josef's name?

Staru gospodu lako je prepoznati po tome Å¡to se hvale pretrpljenim patnjama i prave od njih muzej u koji pozivaju svoje goste.

L'insignifiance, mon ami, c'est l'essence de l'existence. Elle est avec nous partout et toujours. Elle est présente même là où personne ne veut la voir : dans les horreurs, dans les luttes sanglantes, dans les pires malheurs. Cela exige souvent du courage pour la reconnaître dans des conditions aussi dramatiques et pour l'appeler par son nom. Mais il ne s'agit pas seulement de la reconnaître, il faut l'aimer, l'insignifiance, il faut apprendre à l'aimer.

Nowadays, people no longer know Beethoven's Ninth from concerts, but form the for lines of the 'Ode to Joy' that they hear every day in the ad for Bella Perfume.

Imagineaza-ti ca ai fi trait intr-o lume unde nu exista oglinzi. Ai fi visat despre chipul tau si ti l-ai fi reprezentat ca pe o rasfrangere exterioara a ceea ce se afla in launtrul tau. Pe urma, cand ai fi avut patruzeci de ani, cineva ti-ar fi pus in fata o oglinda. Imagineaza-ti spaima care te-ar fi curpins vazand in fata ta un chip strain, absolut strain! Atunci ai fi inteles, cu claritate, ceea ce nu esti in stare sa intelegi acum: chipul tau nu esti tu

Because everyone applauds him as a nice, very cosmopolitan Scandinavian who's already forgotten all about the place he comes from.

Not until later did she understand that the word 'woman', on which he had placed such uncommon emphasis, did not, in his eyes, signify one of the two human sexes; it represented a value.

Bernard ansiaba ser siempre el que hace las preguntas y no el que tiene que responderlas. La fama le corresponde siempre al que responde, no al que pregunta. La cara del que responde está iluminada por los reflectores, mientras que el que pregunta es filmado desde atrás.

L'amore è completamente sordo a quello che può dire il resto del mondo, è appunto da questo che lo si riconosce.

Qué podía ser sino el amor que había llegado de ese modo para que él lo reconociese?

I hate how white people always try to take credit for something after they discover it. Like it wasn't happening before they found out about it--which most times is always late, and they didn't have nothing to do with it happening.