Quotes About Recognition

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

And we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.

The best way to fight this is to recognize it, name it, and refuse to go along with it.

an honest being who does not behave absurdly has no chance at all of becoming famous, or even of being noticed, however kind and sensible he may be.

How lovely she was in her raiments of silk and levantine purple; the fabric provocatively set off the sheen of her white shoulders, which glistened with the sweat of the world. I was on the verge of giving in to the dangerous enticements of her caresses when I realized that I recognized her from an earlier encounter, back at the dawn of time.

Only me, eh? Is that how you see yourself? Only you is worth a good deal more than you think.

Ori de câte ori m? privesc în oglind?, m? v?d simultan pe mine, dar ?i pe str?inul care sunt.

I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

GIRL'S STORY #7: THE HARD-TO-PLEASE MOMMA Momma, I got a B, the daughter said. Who got an A? Momma answered. Momma, I showed in the track meet. Who placed? Momma answered. Momma, I placed in the track meet. Who won? Momma answered. The daughter was chosen Homecoming Queen, the daughter ran all the way home, Momma, Momma, the most wonderful thing happened, I was chosen attendant to the Homecoming Queen. Who's Queen? Momma answered. I am, said the daughter.

though sometimes it seems to mention a man who simply acts like a decent human being gets undue praise

I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.

Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

The day my father shook my hand, I knew I was a writer.

He had an appreciation for things other people had forgotten.

Tell me I don't know you, Sam thought. Tell me I don't know you when I could draw both sides of this hand, your hand from memory.

He had never seen anything die before and so, he could not be certain that she was dying. And yet, somewhere deep inside himself, he felt a recognition and then a reckoning: this was death, and he would die, and his mother would die, and everyone you ever met and ever loved would die, and maybe it would happen when you or they were old, but maybe not. To know this was unbearable: it was a fact too large for a nine-year-old avatar to contain.

That if she didn't know him, no one knew him, and he might as well not exist.

Dov was a producer on Ichigo, and he was so well known that she worried that people would think her work was his work. That they wouldn't know where her work began and his work ended.

Tell me I don't know you, Sam thought. Tell me I don't know you when I could draw both sides of this hand, your hand, from memory.

Or, I'm sorry, is Ichigo a him?" "Sam and Sadie say them." "Cool. When the parents can't recognize them. That moment is straight out of The Odyssey.

The work was the thing that lasted, but the work only lasted if people knew it existed.

he thought that the crowd seemed to part for her, in a way that the world never moved for him.