Quotes About Recognition

This is magnificent," said Justine. "I've never seen anything like it. But I can't make out the artist's name?" "It's by a friend of mine," said Irene. "His name is not known outside of Vienna, but it will be—I think someday soon, all of Europe will be talking about Gustav Klimt. I was the model for this one. I don't know if you can see the resemblance.

Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether

To be loved means to be recognized as existing.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes

To love is to recognize ; to be loved is to be recognized by the other

Just because we do not perceive something, it is not correct to say it does not exist.

Emperor Wu asked Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen Buddhism in China, how much merit he had earned by building temples all over the country. Bodhidharma said, "None whatsoever." But if you wash one dish in mindfulness, if you build one small temple while dwelling deeply in the present moment — not wanting to be anywhere else, not caring about fame or recognition — the merit from that act will be boundless, and you will feel very happy.

Whenever a painful feeling or emotion arises, we should be able to be present with it, not fight it, but recognize it

Listen Bhikkhus, just as a buffalo boy recognizes each of his own buffaloes, a bhikkhu recognizes each of the essential elements of his own body. Just as a buffalo boy knows the characteristics and tendencies of each buffalo, a bhikkhu knows which actions of body, speech, and mind are worthy and which are not. Just as a buffalo boy scrubs his animals clean, a bhikkhu must cleanse his mind and body of desires, attachments, anger, and aversions.

Mindfulness is the energy that allows us to recognize our habit energy and prevent it from dominating us.

I have a feeling he felt Jon Voight had run away with the film, which he didn't, though he was brilliant in it, in a much less easy part. I just don't know what had got into him, but something had.

Well, Jon Hamm isn't a real celebrity.

You can't just walk up to Lebron James in a crowd of players and talk to him the way you can walk up to Jon Jones.

I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But because I wasn't amazingly famous, I didn't become Stephanie Meyer, or even a huge literary name like a Jonathan Franzen or a Joshua Ferris.

Everyone calls me foodgod. Scream it in the streets and run up to me in restaurants, and I want people calling me foodgod when they write about me - not Jonathan or 'BFF.'

At the end of the day, we all know what the Jordan logo means, and you can't take anything away from that. But it's pretty cool to have my own logo on a Jordan shoe.

Anytime someone is wearing Jordan, you have to respect!

I've beaten Jordan Mein. I've beaten Tarec Saffiedine. Some people might have said I beat Stephen Thompson. I beat Robbie Lawler. These are the greatest strikers in our sport, but I'm the only one out of all those guys that outstruck the best strikers, and I still don't get the credit for being the best striker in our division.

I want to be so strong as an actor that people wouldn't say... eh, that's Josh Lucas.

When I was playing good, nobody was saying I was playing good. When I was playing bad, I would be the first one on the front of the journal.

I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.

I thought I'd give myself 10 years as an entertainment journalist and build up so much clout that there was no way Hollywood could ignore me when I started delivering scripts. Little did I know they were very good at ignoring it.

I don't consider myself a celebrity. I'm just a journalist.

There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.