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Quotes About Recognition

Not recognizing natural mind is simply an example of the mind's unlimited capacity to create whatever it wants.
~ Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
There are a lot of disadvantages with the YouTube stigma, because no one wants to be known as just a cover band. It's all about the original music.
~ Alex Goot
If my fans want to call me a love God, then so be it!
~ Alexander O'Neal
The reality of it is you have to be over the top if you want to be noticed.
~ Bob Wright
When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.
~ Cass Elliot
Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.
~ Confucius
The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.
~ Cristina Saralegui
If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised."
~ Emile M. Cioran
I believe myself to be a worthwhile and inventive performer in my own right. [And] I want to be known for what I do best.
~ George Carlin
Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise.
~ George Santayana
Deep down, you do want a Grammy, you do want an Oscar. You do want people to acknowledge what you've done.
~ Avery Sunshine
It's bad enough that I'm an actress that wants to be recognized as an actress. Instead, I am known for doing game shows.
~ Betsy Palmer
I'm willing to take the blame if the strip goes down the drain, and I want the credit if it succeeds. So long as it has my name on it, I want it to be mine.
~ Bill Watterson
I still have anonymity, which is great. I can go out anywhere I want and no one ever recognizes me.
~ Chris Pine
People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.
~ David Brooks
People have always wanted to be recognized, and that's human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they simply want to be visible.
~ Diablo Cody
Autographs and pictures do get a little old, but I don't mind if the people want it.
~ Dominique Moceanu
I'd like to thank my parents for not practicing birth control.
~ Dustin Hoffman
Part of becoming a little bit older and having the opportunities that I have, you want to start giving back to people who have been influential and helped you along the way.
~ Grant Achatz
The first thing baseball wants to do is make you a superstar and then say that you owe baseball something. I don't owe baseball anything. Baseball owes me.
~ Hank Aaron
You know what the hardest thing is? What nobody wants to understand -- is me. People want their memories of me to be my memories of me. But you know what? They're not.
~ Hank Aaron
If I meet someone at a bus stop, I want to really meet that person. I don't want to be 'Hugh Jackman, the famous actor.'
~ Hugh Jackman
Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.
~ Johnny Mathis
Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves.
~ Josh Billings