Quotes About Recognition

As the Sages state: 'The desire for honor removes a man from the world.' However, the reverse is true concerning others, as the Sages said: 'Who is honored? He who honors others.'"7 Do not seek honor for yourself, but go out of your way to honor others.

GRATITUDE is intellectually compelling and it is a very good trait—so why are we so often ungrateful? There are two reasons for this. The first is that a person's first impression is that everything comes by itself, and that it is all coming to him. The other reason is: when I receive good from someone and I recognize that good, I became indebted to him. —RABBI SHLOMO WOLBE (1914–2005)

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.

eyes scanned the heavens, and he found familiar

You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

I think the deeper we go, the less likelihood we'll have of being recognised as something unwanted. It's like the human body - the greatest density of pain receptors lies in the skin.

Half of all the great art and literature in existence went unrecognised during the lifetimes of its creators.

To Sky, Clown had become something to be understood; something to be dissected and parameterised. Clown, he now recognised, was something like the bubble-drawing the dolphin had made in the water: a projection carved from light rather than sound.

Surely you can hear him now?

Get off the throne, Mr. Quindar. And you," Madame Granity said, pointing to me, "you get on it. I know your sister's got the gift, and it often runs in siblings, however I'd still like to see it for myself.

Most of the people I interact with on a daily basis don't even know what I do for a living, so the 'persona' thing doesn't amount to much.

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

I think there's a time when your personal life gets magnified by who we are as celebrities.

I just want to be known for the work I do, not my personal life or what I'm wearing.

My father had an amazing legacy, and so does my mother. I wanted to be able to have both names there. In my personal life, it's Evan Naess. In my career life, it's Evan Ross.

I really didn't want to have my name on the center, because it just seemed like it was too much of a personal thing.

It's an odd beast, fame. It's got multiple personalities.

I hope that when people see Asian women, they realize we are all different. A lot of time with Caucasian people, they just group us together as Asian. But even with different cities in China, people have different personalities... We look Asian, but we still look different. We don't look the same.

A good fragrance should have a certain personality that makes people identify the scent with you.

I didn't want to become a personality, I wanted to be a musician, but because I didn't have an album to stand by yet it was hard for people to see that. But now, two albums in, I'm happy with things.

When you're someone who is in the attention of the masses, you can't help but become a sort of reality personality.

It's tough now to meet a girl who wants to hang out with you because she likes your personality - who hasn't seen you on TV and is like, 'Hey!'