Quotes About Recognition

have always gone out of my way to try and remember people's names and then use them where I can. I find the best way to do this is to make a rhyme about their name when you meet them, or even better, associate their name with another person you know well with the same name.

Charismatic people shine the spotlight on other people. Never forget that.

When we honor someone we give that person a highly respected position in our lives. Honor goes hand in glove with love, a verb whose very definition is doing worthwhile things for someone who is valuable to us.

Michael Brown, the hapless director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, responded, "We're seeing people that we didn't know exist.

1978, Hawaiian has had official standing as a state language. So in this edition of Shoal of Time, published in 2015, Hawaiian words are not italicized.

We want recognition, not accomplishment.

You'll be thinking of me. You may not be thinking good thoughts, but you'll be thinking of me.

there are some broad strokes that can be fairly applied to most of us: We seek connection with others; We are saddened by loss, and try to avoid it; We dislike rejection; We like recognition and attention; We will do more to avoid pain than we will do to seek pleasure; We dislike ridicule and embarrassment; We care what others think of us; We seek a degree of control over our lives;

The recognition and the acceptance of the Other's humanity (or humanness) is a maiming of self. You have to wound the self, cut it in strips, in order to -know- that you are as similar and of the same substance of shadows.

Joker: I don't mind you saying that, Johnny. Sometimes, I need to hear the obvious... now is not one of those times, though.

The year 1992 should have been remembered as the 700th anniversary of the death of a man who changed the world. Yet the occasion passed without note. Few know of the remarkable achievements of someone who, more than any other, can be said to have invented science.

I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.

That's Kline," he said. "We know and love him. He's like a person to us.

And God sees your sacrifice, if no man does. That, young man, is heroism.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Arnold, forced to declare the meeting a failure, returned to West Point. André, it turns out, had been in the vicinity, but the vigilant gunboats had made crossing the river quite perilous in risking both his life and recognition by some of his own soldiers. He returned to New York to arrange a second attempt at meeting

I respect the shit out of you.

The primary human need, he decided—stronger than the need for food or sex or love—is the need for recognition, the need to make a mark in the world.

The desire to learn from people was always bound up with the desire to seem special to them.

You either see it or you don't.

The trees thinned, the roads grew wider, the number of lanes multiplied, the traffic thickened and slowed, the billboards proliferated. On one of the billboards was this message: you call him "the man upstairs." but he has a name.

Who was that?" I asked my aunt "Him?" my aunt said, and I could hear the shrug in her voice. "He's no one." "All right," I said, trying to make my shrug audible, too. But in truth, I was happy to hear Aunt Beatrice say he was no one. It is easier to feel like you're someone if you know someone else is no one.