Quotes About Recognition

Pierre Curie, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one—Marie, the famous Madame Curie—and is the only great scientist in history who is consistently identified as the husband of someone else.

And Elvex said, I was the man. - In Robot dreams (Short story)

To Baley, it seemed not that the Aurorans were growing more humane in their attitude out of a liking for the humane, but that they were denying the robotic nature of the objects in order to remove the discomfort of having to recognize the fact that the human beings were dependent upon objects of artificial intelligence.

He was detecting what we—he and I—knew he would detect—that we were not our own masters. And I didn't want to know!

lo evidente es en muchos casos lo más difícil de ver. La gente dice es tan claro como mi nariz, pero ¿qué porción de nuestra nariz podemos ver, a menos que nos den un espejo?

We expected a large gathering, because it is the nature of people to forget a saint while he is alive and give him all honors at his death.

Tenía la idea de que al poner nombre a los problemas, estos se materializan y ya no es posible ignorarlos; en cambio, si se mantienen en el limbo de las palabras no dichas, pueden desaparecer solos, con el transcurso del tiempo

He understood then that all his exploits as a reporter, the feats that had won him such recognition and fame, were merely an attempt to keep his most ancient fears at bay, a stratagem for taking refuge behind a lens to test whether reality was more tolerable from that perspective.

Entonces se acariciaron titubeantes, reconociendose, tanteando el alma para asegurarse de que no estaban equivocados.

They are more interesting than most men, but that does not affect the reality: they live in an unyielding patriarchy. To begin with, a woman's work or intellect isn't respected; we must work twice as hard as any man to earn half the recognition

The man and the little girl looked at each other, recognizing themselves in the other's eyes.

Qué fue nuevo para él y para mí? No lo sé, pero me gusta imaginar que estábamos destinados a encontrarnos, reconocernos y amarnos.

Habrían de pasar cuarenta años para aceptar mi condición y comprender que, con el doble de esfuerzo y la mitad de reconocimiento, había logrado lo mismo que a veces consiguen algunos hombres. Hoy

You are an exceptional man, and it's not just my senility speaking, half the country would agree with me, and the other half doesn't count.

Habrían de pasar cuarenta años para aceptar mi condición y comprender que, con el doble de esfuerzo y la mitad de reconocimiento, había logrado lo mismo que a veces consiguen algunos hombres. Hoy no me cambiaría por ninguno, pero en mi juventud las injusticias cotidianas me amargaban la existencia.

but his monumental pride prevented him from recognizing in the man any virtues beyond those that marked him as a good peon.

que sus espíritus se expandían, que los deseos y la memoria desaparecían, que se abandonaban en una sola inmensa claridad. Se abrazaron en ese extraordinario espacio reconociéndose, porque tal vez habían estado allí juntos en vidas anteriores y lo estarían muchas veces más en vidas futuras, como sugirió Tao Chi'en. Eran

tranquila a solas con otra mujer. Lucía comprobó que Cheryl era como la había descrito

I still present myself as a New Zealander, answering people's questions about New Zealand and contributing in my own unlikely way to the global perception that Kiwis can and do fly high.

New Zealand has incredible global recognition for grass-fed livestock.

It's my mission to get the New Zealand accent into a Hollywood show. I'm proud of the way we talk, and I'm here to represent it. Kiwis are everywhere: they're in every city of the world. I've checked. We have a voice... it's a bit of a funny one at times, but it's one that I want to promote.

The promoters in New Zealand weren't looking at me, they didn't see the potential. But when I was fighting in China they brought me over there as a journeyman so all their guys could whup up on me. Then they realised that's not gonna happen because I kept whupping up on their guys. Then they decided, 'Let's bring this guy into our team.'

It's pretty crazy. I was thinking about that today, how 'True Blood' has penetrated so much of the cultural zeitgeist. It's truly amazing; it's incredible! The cover of 'Rolling Stone' is major. What's next, the cover of 'Vanity Fair?' When I'm in a 'New Yorker' cartoon, then I will feel like I have made it.

I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly, and they didn't want to go on!