Quotes About Recognition

It's just extra motivation when people appreciate what you do.

When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes it's envy and jealousy.

I guess it comes back to the old motto, you have you're fifteen minutes a fame.

One of the reasons for paying people for their productivity, rather than their merits, is that productivity is far easier to determine than merit.

Faced with parts of ourselves that we do not recognize, would like perhaps not to recognize, we deny the kinship, and often lean away from the new and into the old, accentuating the familiar qualities that complement the strange new ones.

Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.

A few names were known in full, some in part, some not at all. No one cared. Except in clearly unreasonable cases, a soldier was generally called by the name he preferred, or by what he called himself, and no great effort was made to disentangle Christian names from surnames from nicknames.

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Did Thrawn even recognize the depth of loyalty he inspired in those who worked with him? Knowing Thrawn, probably not.

How could he not see what he was doing to her until now?

You could say that all my characters are reflections of myself, in that I share their wish to count for something, and their utmost confusion as to how this is supposed to be done.

A desire for recognition emerges at the same time as a sense of inferiority.

A desire for recognition emerges at the same time as a sense of inferiority. A good upbringing should be able to dissolve this sense of inferiority, and as a result the child will not develop an unbalanced need to win at the expense of others.

The only people Ryan needed to impress were those who knew him; he cared little for the rest.

Way to go, Dallas!

Bad money drives out good.' That means poor performance will take over if good performance isn't recognized.

There were three repeat pips on his Vietnam service ribbon.

He was ... at peace with the world, for it is not in the praise of others that the true artist revels, but in the knowledge that he has satisfied himself.

He was called World by his teammates, a nickname Mac Wilkins came up with to keep Pre humble. It was short for World Famous

Because it was just too creepy to consider the alternative: nothing changing at all, everything shrinking into the sad belated recognition that the best days had come and gone without her even realizing it.

It was like traveling back in time, meeting the person you used to be, and recognizing her as a friend.

Oh, I thought that this day and age you maybe would be known as bovine custodial officers.

How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them

You do not have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House.