Quotes About Recognition

I've been a minor celebrity since I was 23 years old.

I didn't need a harassment scandal to break out in Hollywood or misogynistic people in government to know they exist. Anybody who's a woman, a minority, or a thinking, perceiving male can see that it exists.

I always wanted to be good at something, to be somebody. The minute I got into my first play, which was called 'Excuse My Dust' - I was 17 at the time - I knew that this was what I'd been looking for.

It's not me to toot my horn. The minute you toot your horn, it seems like society will try and disconnect your battery. And if you do not toot your horn, they'll try their darnedest to give you a horn to toot, or say that you should have a horn.

Fox would hire me in a minute. And believe it or not, CNN would, too.

Nobody's going to say hello to me in the street, really, because there'll be someone a bit more famous coming along the street in a minute. That typifies London, really.

Sadly, I don't think books ever sell based on your name alone - the minute we make an assumption like that is the minute it all goes horribly wrong!

I like the minute when I can get off the stage and go home, and I know I've done a good job.

If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.

We need to not only recognize the suffering, pain, and difficulties within us, we need to devote time to dealing with them and transforming them

Nothing can be born from nothing. When we touch the sheet of paper deeply, when we touch the cloud deeply, when we touch our grandmother deeply, we touch the nature of no birth and no death, and we are free from sorrow. We already recognize them in many other forms. This is the insight that helped the Buddha become serene, peaceful, and fearless.

We are surrounded by miracles, but we have to recognize them; otherwise there is no life.

Mindfulness is the energy that can recognize whatever is occurring, including your own negative habit energies coming up.

To succeed in the practice, we must stop trying to prove that everything is suffering. In fact, we must stop trying to prove anything. If we touch the truth of suffering with our mindfulness, we will be able to recognize and identify our specific suffering, its specific causes, and the way to remove those causes and end our suffering.

We can judge our success at work in many ways. Usually we judge it by how much money we make, what title we have, and how much others recognize our achievements. But if you can go to work each day as a bodhisattva, if your presence at work brings you and others joy, then you have a successful work life. You have succeeded in the present moment, the only moment that exists.

When we don't run away from our suffering, but we recognize it, embrace it, and look deeply into it, suffering begins to transform, and liberation and enlightenment manifest.

To be loved is to be recognized as existing.

Again and again we try to escape ourselves, but we fail in our efforts, constantly run our heads into the wall because we don't want to recognize that we can't escape ourselves, except in death.

We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money....

Oni idu tako daleko i vjeruju da ?ovjek nastaje tek onda kad primi svedodžbu ili stekne titulu, prije toga uop?e nije ?ovjek.

No ta pošast svjedodžaba i titula nije, dakako, izum ovog stolje?a, ljudi su uvijek težili za time. Budu?i da su sebe premalo cijenili, jednog su se dana ve? prije više stolje?a iskazivali svjedodžbom i titulom kako bi mogli sami pred sobom postojati.

corollaries—where have I seen his face, don't I know that

Part of pattern recognition is talent, but a whole lot of it is practice: if you read enough and give what you read enough thought, you begin to see patterns, archetypes, recurrences.

But nobody did come, because nobody does: and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out if the world.