Quotes About Recognition

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

Constant, indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.

I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once, when I was number one on the bestseller list, I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

You can tell German wine from vinegar ... by the label.

Some men are graduated from college cum laude, some are graduated summa cum laude, and some are graduated mirabile dictu.

If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hardbeaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

One of the drawbacks of Fame is that one can never escape from it.

The only man who wasn't spoilt by being lionized was Daniel.

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.

A celebrity is a person known for his well-knownness. Celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by being well known for relations among themselves. By a kind of symbiosis, celebrities live off each other.

A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.

Some day each of us will be famous for fifteen minutes.

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

To many fame comes too late.

Fame is but the breath of the people, and that often unwholesome.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.

It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.